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Winona Ryder Biography

Winona Laura Horowitz (born October 29, 1971), better known as Winona Ryder, is an American actress. One of the most successful and iconic actresses of the 1990s, she made her film debut in Lucas (1986). As Lydia Deetz, a goth teenager in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice (1988), she garnered critical acclaim and widespread recognition. After appearances in film and on television, Ryder continued her acting career with the cult film Heathers (1988), a controversial satire of teenage suicide and high school life that has since become a landmark teen film. She later appeared in the coming of age drama Mermaids (1990), earning a Golden Globe Award nomination, and in the same year appeared alongside Johnny Depp in Burton's dark fairy-tale Edward Scissorhands (1990), and shortly thereafter opposite Gary Oldman in Francis Ford Coppola's gothic romance Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992).

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I was very obsessed with Ruth Gordon. I really didn't foresee me having any type of career as a leading lady at all because it was just blonds. I just wasn't the type - I was told that by casting directors. I auditioned for Running on Empty [1988] and The Mosquito Coast [1986], and Martha Plimpton was just killing me.

1988, Careers, Casting, Directors, Lady, Running

There's a scene [in the 1990 film Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael] in my bedroom where I start eating Almond Roca. I was so young. It was before I knew the tricks of moviemaking, and I didn't know you shoot a lot of different angles. I gobbled them and didn't realize I had to keep doing it. So I had to eat 64 Almond Roca that day. I got so sick. In the beginning you're like, 'Ooh, that looks good. ' But hours later, no.

Almond, Different, Home, Ooh, Roxy, Sick

Bette Davis, she was so brilliant and one of my heroes, but she worked a ton, and then she didn't get All About Eve [1950] until the last minute. Claudette Colbert was supposed to be Margo Channing, but then she broke her back and couldn't do it. That allowed Davis to play her age.

Hero, Play, Age, Brilliant, Channing

I was not the first choice for Veronica in Heathers. I auditioned and they were like, "Oh, thanks. " And I went to the Beverly Center to Macy's and had them do a makeover on me. I went back because I kind of knew that they thought I wasn't pretty enough. They were trying to get Jennifer Connelly.

Auditioned, Choices, Connelly, Heathers, Like, Trying

My problems seemed so glamorous to other people, and everyone just thought I was so lucky. But then, I was lucky because my family was really there for me. I think I just felt like I really wanted to hold on to who I was as a person, and try to have as much of a normal life as I could.

People, Person, Seemed, Thinking, Thought, Trying

Googling yourself is maybe one of the worst things you can do. I did it once, and someone had to talk me off a ledge.

Ledge, Ledges, Talk, Worst, Worst Things

I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.

Depression, Exhausted, Terrible

Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.

Book, Everybody, Peace, People, Think, Thinking

Suddenly you're the mom, or you go from. . . You're not an ingénue, you don't want to play an ingénue, but it's like that line in The First Wives Club [1996]: "There are only three ages for women in Hollywood: babe, district attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy. "

Babe, Mom, Play, Wife, Wives

A lot of filmmakers and actors say, "It's so important to bring an authenticity to the role," blah, blah, blah. But then it's interesting because you're also trying to be somebody else, and viewers are going to associate you with that, so I don't think it really has an answer.

Actors, Blah, Important, Interesting, Somebody, Thinking

It's also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I'm not the only actress out there, and good parts just don't fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the films I've made recently and so I'm pretty positive about the future.

Fall, Interesting, Lap, Recently, Roles

I remember when I first started being in magazines, I had pretty thin skin. I was this nerd that read books and stayed home and didn't go out.

Book, Books, Home, Nerd, Pretty, Thin

I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time.

Further, Long, Regarded, School, Teenager

You're lucky if you're in three great movies, or even one great movie. I've been so lucky. But if you rely on the business to dictate whether you're happy, it gets really complicated. You just can't do that. There have been times in my life that I've done that, and I've found it depressing.

Depressing, Dictate, Found, Lucky, Rely, Three

People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they - at least the ones that I know personally - have been waiting for something that doesn't completely insult them.

Ones, People, Thinking, Waiting, Woman

It's interesting because First Wives Club was the first movie that made a shitload of money that starred all women over a certain age. That was a milestone that made you think, "Oh, things are going to change. "

Age, Club, Interesting, Starred, Thinking, Wife

The actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?

Actors, Know, People, Soul, Souls, Thinking

It's weird because I think of movies like Reality Bites or something, where, even though my life was nothing like that, I hadn't done something contemporary for a while, and it's easier. You do try to make something your own.

Life, Nothing, Reality, Think, Thinking, Trying

No one is banging my door down to be a superhero. I don't know how good I would be. I have low bone density, so I don't know if anyone really wants to put me in a cape and chuck me out a window. But a lot of my friends, who are great actors and who come from film, are doing TV because that's where the opportunities are. For us, it does feel like it's similar to making the movies that we used to make.

Chuck, Doors, Like, Making, Opportunity, Superhero

I don't use the Internet, but apparently you can find out everything on it.

Apparently, Everything, Internet, Use

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