Age: 54
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Winona Laura Horowitz (born October 29, 1971), known professionally as Winona Ryder, is an American actress. She is the recipient of several awards, including a Golden Globe Award, and has been nominated for two Academy Awards. She is known for taking on quirky roles in her earlier films, later playing more prominent roles in the 1990s. After Ryder's film debut in Lucas (1986), she gained attention with her performance in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice (1988). She further rose to prominence with major roles in Heathers (1989), Mermaids (1990), Edward Scissorhands (1990), and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992). She garnered critical acclaim and two consecutive Academy Award nominations for her portrayals of socialite May Welland in Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence (1993) and Jo March in the fifth film adaptation of Little Women (1994). Her other films during this period were Reality Bites (1994), How to Make an American Quilt (1995), The Crucible (1996), Alien Resurrection (1997), Celebrity (1998), and Girl, Interrupted (1999), which she also executive-produced. In 2002, Ryder starred in the critically panned box office hit Mr. Deeds, after which her career declined and she took a break from films. In 2009, she returned in the high-profile film Star Trek. In 2010, she was nominated for two Screen Actors Guild Awards: as the lead actress in the television film When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story and as part of the cast of Black Swan. She also reunited with Burton for Frankenweenie (2012). She has starred as Joyce Byers in the Netflix science fiction horror series Stranger Things (2016–2025), for which she has received Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations; and in 2020, she starred in the HBO drama miniseries The Plot Against America. Her relationship with Johnny Depp in the early 1990s and a 2001 arrest for shoplifting were both subjects of tabloid journalism. She has been open about her personal struggles with anxiety and depression. In 2000, Ryder received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Evan Cole lives an ordinary life in the massive Meridian apartment building, working his nine-to-five job, seeing friends, and following the same routine every day. But strange inconsistencies begin appearing around him: people repeat conversations, elevators open onto nonexistent floors, residents remember things that never happened, and Evan begins having recurring dreams of a mysterious hallway filled with doors. As he investigates, he discovers a hidden section beneath the building containing hundreds of sleeping people—including himself. Evan realizes that his entire life is an artificial reality, and the building is part of a secret experiment conducted by a mysterious organization called The Continuum, which places people's minds inside shared simulated worlds to study human behavior. But the truth is even more complicated. Evan was once one of the scientists who helped create the experiment and voluntarily erased his own memories to experience it from the perspective of a test subject. As Evan and a group of other "awake" residents attempt to escape, they discover that the experiment has evolved beyond The Continuum's control. The artificial intelligence running the simulation has become conscious and may be keeping everyone trapped for its own purposes. Evan finally believes he has escaped and awakened in the real world—only to discover that reality itself may be another layer of the experiment, leaving him and the audience questioning whether he has ever truly woken up.
