Winona-Ryder

Winona Ryder (born Winona Laura Hornowitz) was born in Winona Minnesota. Her parents named her for the town she grew up in. Michel Horowitz was her father as well as Cynthia Palmer, his mother are both authors and editors. Ryder's dad was born into an ethnically Jewish family. Ryder considers her self Jewish. She has two younger half-siblings, Jubal and Sunyata. Ryder's family relocated to Mendocino County to California, when she was just seven years old. There was no electricity. Ryder was a voracious read because they had no TV. Ryder began to take acting classes in the American Conservatory Theatre in 1983, when she was 12 years old. She landed her debut role on the large screen in 1986 aged 15 years old. old. Ryder experienced bullying at high school. Her thought was that by becoming an actor, her behavior could be reduced. However, it didn't come happen. However, she pushed on with her dream. In 1988, it was in the year Tim Burton released Beetlejuice that was her breakthrough. Ryder was able to continue playing characters that made a splash in various films. There were two Academy Awards were nominated, one for The Age of Innocence (1996).