Winona Ryder

Winona Ryder (born Winona Laura Horowitz) is an American actress born on October 29, 1971 in Winona, Minnesota to Michael and Cindy Horowitz. Cindy Horowitz (nee 'Palmer') was of English descent while Michael Horowitz was born in Brooklyn, the son of Jewish immigrants from Russia and Romania. His family's original name had been 'Tomchin' but they had been wrongly assigned the name 'Horowitz' by U.S. immigration officials at Ellis Island.

Filmography

• Lucas (1986)
• Square Dance (1987)
• Beetlejuice (1988)
• 1969 (1988)
• Heathers (1989)
• Great Balls of Fire! (1989)
• Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael (1990)
• Edward Scissorhands (1990)
• Mermaids (1990)
• Night on Earth (1991)
• Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
• The Age of Innocence (1993)
• The House of Spirits (1993)
• Reality Bites (1994)
• Little Women (1994)
• How to Make an American Quilt (1995)
• Boys (1996)
• Looking for Richard (1996)
• The Crucible (1996)
• ' (1997)
• Celebrity (1998)
• Girl, Interrupted (1999)
• (1999)
• Autumn in New York (2000)
• Lost Souls (2000)
• Zoolander (2001) (Cameo)
• Mr. Deeds (2002)
• S1m0ne (2002)
• The Day My God Died (2003) (documentary) (narrator)
• The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004)
• Darwin Awards (2005) (currently in post-production)
• ' (documentary) (currently in post-production)
• A Scanner Darkly (2006) (currently in post-production)
• Alpha Numeric (2006) (currently in pre-production)