Winona Ryder (born Winona Laura Horowitz; October 29, 1971) is an American actress.
Winona, of the most profitable and iconic 1990s actresses, made her film debut in the 1986 film Lucas. As Lydia Deetz, a goth teenager in Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice (1988), she won critical acclaim and widespread recognition.
After various 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 nomination, in Burton’s dark fairy-tale Edward Scissorhands (1990), and in Francis Ford Coppola’s gothic romance Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992).