Winona Ryder: Filmography is more than fifty films

Winona Ryder, whose filmography - this is about fifty films, many of which have become popular since the time of their appearance on the screen, was twice nominated for an Oscar. In 1993 she became a laureate of the Golden Globe. In October 2000, for her contribution to the development of cinema, this woman with a charming child's face was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Childhood

Actress Winona Ryder, whose real name is Laura Horowitz, was born in 1971 in a small American town in the state of Minnesota with parents - bright representatives of the underground culture of that time. Michael and Cynthia were descendants of Jewish immigrants from Romania and Russia. Her grandmother Ethel was an immigrant from the Russian hinterland. The Winona's parents were ardent activists of the 60's movement, like the hippies. They were called "intellectuals and psychedelic scientists." The father of the future actress at that time worked as personal secretary and biographer of the famous American philosopher, who was called the seller of the "expansion of consciousness" - Timothy Larry. It was he who became the godfather for the little girl. Father Winona had a bookstore called "Flashback Books", it was simply shifted in Eastern philosophy, as well as psychotropic and hallucinogenic substances. At the same time Michael and Cynthia were terribly proud that they, perhaps, have the only library in the world, collected from books about drugs. Another well-known friend of the family was the well-known poet Beatnik, as well as the preacher of the hippie Ginsberg ideas.

Winona Ryder, whose filmography does not include a single film about this movement of the sixties, grew up in the commune of representatives of the "generation of love" on the ranch, where very liberal mores prevailed, but there were no elementary conditions, including electricity. When the girl was eight years old, her family moved to California. Winona Ryder, whose films were watched all over the world, did not go to school, but studied at home.

The first role

Since that young age, she, at the insistence of her parents, was not looking at the "Wizard of Oz", like all children, but the works of John Cassavetes, and from that time her favorite actress was Gina Rowlands. She spent most of the day with great benefit, in her opinion, at the American Conservatory Theater, where very soon the talented girl was noticed by agents from the film studio. They offered her samples for a role in the movie "Flowering in the Desert". But despite the fact that this small role of Winona Ryder, whose filmography - more than half the main roles, was never received, but this attempt did not pass for her to no avail. The film, with its screen test, somehow fell into the hands of a representative of the "Triad Artists", who very soon invited the girl to appear in a comedy melodrama called "Lucas". From that time on, the girl got her screen alias - "Ryder", chosen for her by her father.

Winona Ryder - filmography

In 1988 and 1989, the girl starred in three scenes: "Beetlejus", "Lethal fascination" and "Big fireballs", which brought her some fame. But the first deafening success to the actress came a little later. It was a role in the film director Burton called "Edward Scissorhands," the main character in which played the already popular Johnny Depp. From the "children's cinema" actress helped break out Jim Jarmusch, especially for her written one of the main roles in the comedy drama called "Night on Earth." Soon Winona Ryder, whose films are mostly melodramas, was invited to the cult trilogy of Coppola's "Godfather III", but soon she was replaced by another actress, since all the thoughts of the young girl at that time were engaged in relationships with her boyfriend, and not the role.

Peak of popularity

However, in spite of everything, the actress became more and more popular from year to year. The success enjoyed by almost all the films with Winona Ryder. The list is quite impressive: it's Dracula, The Age of Innocence, The Reality Bites and The Little Women, In Search of Richard, and Alien 4: Resurrection, etc. The peak of the actress's popularity came in the late nineties . Then Ryder was even honored to be a member of the jury of the Cannes Film Festival. Around the same time, she made her debut as the producer of the picture "Interrupted Life", in which she played the main role. After that, Ryder performed about two dozen major roles in the films, many of which failed at the box office. Prolonged succession of failures the girl has experienced quite steadfast, confident that the best images she still will.

Interesting Facts

The magazine "People" Winona Ryder was included in the list of fifty beauties of the world. She was not indifferent to Christian Slater, Daniel Day-Lewis, musician David Pirner, David Duchovny. However, the actress considers her relationship with Johnny Depp to be the brightest of her novels. After their rupture, the girl was even in the psychiatric hospital for five days. And this experience was useful to her on the set of a film called "Interrupted Life", based on a book written by the father of Winona - Michael Horowitz.

The girl suffers from hydrophobia, and for this she has a reason: in her childhood she almost drowned.