Monday, January 12, 2009

Winona Ryder


Winona Ryder
born: 29-10-1971
birth place: Winona, Minnesota, USA

To have one’s name tattooed on Johnny Depp’s arm would surely be enough for most girls, but Winona Ryder was destined for even greater things. With a career encompassing dazzling highs and scandalous lows, the unconventional actress forged her name as the embodiment of Generation X.

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Born Winona Laura Horowitz, but known to her friends as ‘Noni’, Ryder can trace her first name to the Minnesotan city of Winona where she was born on 29th October 1971. The fact that her middle name, Laura, is a tribute to the wife of their family friend, the novelist Aldous Huxley, offers a glimpse into the wealth of intellectual giants who had surrounded and influenced her family, and thus indirectly, her upbringing.

Ryder was the first daughter of bookshop owner, Michael Horowitz and third child of her mother, Cynthia Palmer. Her free-thinking parents were both writers and editors at the centre of an analytical revolution involving great minds such as Ryder’s godfather, LSD proselytiser, Timothy Leary. In 1976, the couple welcomed their second child together, son Yuri.

Winona Ryder and Her Girlzzz...



In 1978, Ryder’s family moved into a commune in the northern Californian town of Elk. The actress has described sharing everything from horses to child rearing duties with seven other families as “no utopia”, an experience which led to her longings for a private family life. School also proved difficult for the elfin teen. Although she would eventually graduate from Petaluma High School with an impressive grade point average of 4.0, Ryder oscillated between home schooling and state school, suffering bullying as a result of being mistaken for an effeminate boy.

Winona Ryder


At the age of 12, the aspiring thespian followed her dream, enrolling at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, which had launched such stars as Nicholas Cage and Annette Bening. Noni’s flair was first recognised by David Seltzer, during her unsuccessful audition for the part of Rose Chismore in ‘Desert Bloom’ (1985). The writer and director took the next chance he had to cast her as a teen with an unrequited love for the title character of the film ‘Lucas’ (1985).

‘Lucas’ opened to little fanfare, but it marked a significant step in Ryder’s development into the recognisable starlet she is today. Not only was it the actress’s debut feature film, but it was also in its credits that she first appeared with her current surname. Ryder continued to develop her acting abilities, however, with unsuccessful ventures such as ‘Square Dance’ (1987) and ‘1969’ (1989), she seemed doomed to a fate of obscurity.

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