Happy Birthday: Winona Ryder

Winona Ryder

Born: October 29, 1971 in Winona, Minnesota, USA

There were times where people might have seen me and said, “Wow, she’s so lucky.” But I was depressed, I was going through something. That time I went through led me to make Girl, Interrupted (1999). Most girls go through that at around that age – 20, 21. It’s much more common than we think, which is why I wanted to make that movie. It worked in the sense that I still have girls come up to me and say that it really helped them, and that was nice to hear.
In my first apartment in LA, Jodie Foster lived upstairs, and we’d do laundry together. She’s so smart. She told me to resist doing things that other people say you should do. Don’t be ‘strategic’! I was up for this movie, Mobsters (1991), and everyone said I should do it. But Jodie said, ‘You have to feel very connected to something before you do it.’ So I turned it down. And it was a flop.

Beetle Juice 1988 dir. Tim Burton starring Alec Baldwin Geena Davis Michael Keaton

Heathers 1988 dir. Michael Lehmann Starring Winona Ryder Christian Slater Shannen Doherty

Edward Scissorhands 1990 dir. Burton Starring Johnny Depp Ryder

Night on Earth 1991 dir. Jim Jarmusch Cast Gena Rowlands Winona Ryder

Dracula 1992 dir. Francis Ford Coppola Starring Ryder Gary Oldman Anthony Hopkins

Star Trek 2009 Directed by JJ Abrams Starring Chris Pine Zachary Quinto

The Informers 2009 dir. Gregor Jordan Starring Billy Bob Thornton Mickey Rourke Kim Basinger

Black Swan dir. Darren Aronofsky Stars: Natalie Portman Mila Kunis

FRANKENWEENIE dir. Tim Burton Stars: Winona Ryder Catherine O’Hara

CELEBRITY 1998 dir. Woody Allen Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio Kenneth Branagh

LOOKING FOR RICHARD 1996 dir. Al Pacino Starring: Al Pacino Alec Baldwin

The Dilemma dir. Ron Howard Stars: Vince Vaughn Kevin James

A SCANNER DARKLY 2006 dir. Richard Linklater Stars: Keanu Reeves Winona Ryder

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