Celebrity name : Winona Ryder

Celebrity Real Name : Winona Laura Horowitz

Date of Birth : 29 October 1971

Birth location : Olmsted County,Minnesota

Winona Ryader Biography :
Ryder was born in Olmsted County, Minnesota and was named after the nearby city of Winona, and was given her middle-name, Laura, because of her parent’s friendship with Aldous Huxley’s wife, Laura Huxley.
Her mother is author Cindy Horowitz (née Istas) and her father is author and editor Michael Horowitz. Her paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia and her maternal grandparents from Romania. Records show her father’s family were originally named Tomschin when they arrived on the Kroonland at Ellis Island in 1906 but went under the name Horowitz when they resided in Manhattan.

Film career : 1985–2006
In 1985, Ryder sent a video audition to appear in the film Desert Bloom but she was rejected. However, David Seltzer, a writer and director, soon noticed her and cast her for his 1986 film Lucas in the role of a friend of the main character. When asked how she wanted her name to appear in the credits, she suggested “Ryder” as her surname as a Mitch Ryder album which belonged to her father was playing in the background.
Ryder as Mina Harker in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) Enlarge Ryder as Mina Harker in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) In 1991, she played a taxi driver who wants to become a mechanic (Jim Jarmusch’s Night on Earth), challenging society’s widely accepted gender roles. In 1992, she starred in the dual roles of Dracula’s reincarnated love interest Mina Murray and Dracula’s past lover Princess Elisabeta, in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, a project she brought to director Francis Ford Coppola’s attention. Though the movie failed to enthuse critics, it was immensely successful. Successive VHS then DVD editions brought Coppola’s twisted vision of the vampire as a romantic figure to new generations of viewers throughout the nineties and beyond.
In 1996 she starred in Al Pacino’s debut as a director, Looking for Richard, and also in The Crucible with Daniel Day-Lewis (1996), a movie about the Salem witch trials and the hysteria that prompted the deaths of many without trials. The movie was praised by critics but was not commercially successful.
In 2002, Ryder appeared in two films, one a romantic comedy titled Mr. Deeds (alongside Adam Sandler), where she played a cynical reporter for an unscrupulous television program, and the other an episodic role in S1m0ne, in which she depicted a glamorous star who is replaced by a computer simulated actress because of the clandestine machinations of a director (played by Al Pacino).
2006–beyond Winona Ryder as Donna in A Scanner Darkly (2006) Enlarge Winona Ryder as Donna in A Scanner Darkly (2006)
In 2006, After a long dry spell, Ryder appeared in Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly, a futuristic movie based on Philip K. Dick’s famous novel. Ryder portrayed Donna Hawthorne also starring are Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr and Woody Harrelson. Live action scenes were transformed with rotoscope software and the film was entirely animated.

Personal life :
Ryder is famous for her long engagements with actor Johnny Depp (three years), Soul Asylum’s Dave Pirner (three years), and actor Matt Damon (three years). (During their relationship, Depp got a tattoo on his arm reading “Winona Forever,” which he had altered to “Wino Forever” after their breakup.) [Wikipedia]