• Name: Winona Ryder
  
• Birth Name: Winona Laura Horowitz
  
• Height: 5' 4"
  
• Sex: F
  
• Nationality: American
  
• Birth Date: October 29, 1971
  
• Birth Place: Winona (where she got her name from), Minnesota
  
• Profession: actress
  
• Education: Petaluma High School (graduated with a 4.0 average)
  
•   : American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, CA
  
• Relationship: Matt Damon (actor; born on October 8, 1970; met on New Year's Eve party 1997; separated in April 2000), David Pirner (Soul Asylum's lead singer; 1993-1996), Johnny Depp (actor; born on June 9, 1963; engaged in February 1990; separated in 1993)
  
• Father: Michael Horowitz (writer; editor; publisher)
  
• Mother: Cindy Horowitz (educational video producer; writer)
  
• Sister: Sunyata Horowitz
  
• Brother: Jubal Horowitz, Uri Horowitz (actor)
  
• Grand Father: Timothy Leary
  
• Claim to fame: as Lydia Deitz in Beetlejuice (1988)
  

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• About her sentencing, "I just want to curl up in a ball, open my eyes and everything goes away. I really can't take any more. This is the worst experience of my life. How could anyone come to terms with being locked up. I really, really don't want to go there. I would be the victim of sexual abuse and God knows what else. My career in Hollywood is on the line, surely that's enough punishment in the circumstances?"
• "I would sooner die rather than face the prospect of being kept behind bars like some sort of caged animal."
• "I'm not into older guys... To tell you the truth, Richard is not the sexiest man alive, in my book." [on costar Richard Gere]
• "In high school, I dressed up as every James Bond girl. I was a teenage Pussy Galore."
• "I'm strange, crazy, intelligent, wild, soft, coy, thrifty, boring, romantic, selfish, full of pride, mean, dark, sweet and most of all I'm through with this interview."
• "Most of my friends had pretty weird names; the crowd we ran with when I was a little kid was like, Tatonka, Gulliver, Oobie Doobie... I had a friend, who was on my skateboarding team, named A-shole."
• "I love being called a hipster... What exactly does that term mean?"
• "Quirky. If anyone calls me quirky again, I think they should be shot."
• "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."
• "You can't pay enough money to... cure that feeling of being broken and confused."
• "If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'."
• "I read biographies of the greats, and they were so messed up that I thought I'd better mess myself up. But I couldn't. I'm too small."
• For a long time I was almost ashamed of being an actress. I felt like it was a shallow occupation. People would be watching my every move.
• "I don't believe I am influencing anybody but myself."
• "I've learned that it's OK to be flawed."

• San Francisco International Film Festival: Peter J. Owens Award (2000)
• Blockbuster Entertainment Awards: Favorite Supporting Actress - Sci-Fi, ALIEN: RESURRECTION (1998)
• ShoWest Award: Female Star of the Year (1997)
• Golden Globe Awards: Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture, THE AGE OF INNOCENCE (1994)
• Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards: Best Supporting Actress, THE AGE OF INNOCENCE (1994)
• National Board of Review: Best Supporting Actress, THE AGE OF INNOCENCE (1993)
• Sant Jordi Awards: Best Foreign Actress, EDWARD SCISSORHANDS (1992)
• National Board of Review: Best Supporting Actress, MERMAIDS (1990)
• ShoWest Award: Female Star of Tomorrow (1990)
• Young Artist Awards: Best Young Actress Starring in a Motion Picture, GREAT BALLS OF FIRE! (1990)

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