She’s been acting for a decade and has appeared in 20 films. She’s been directed by Martin Scorsese, Francis Coppola and Tim Burton. Now, at 23, Winona Ryder can choose the films she wants to make and the directors she wants to make them. SHE’S never done teeny-bop movies, beach movies, gang movies, drug movies … Continue reading

She’s ludicrously beautiful, far too talented, and still only 23 years old. Jeff Dawson is granted an audience with the winsome, wondrous, and “waif-like” Winona Ryder… “Younger Women are really underestimated by Hollywood,” protests Winona Ryder. “I think they are really sick of seeing films about happy hookers. I know a lot of younger girls, … Continue reading

Winona Ryder is the name above the title in Little Women. But she had to overcome a bizarre adolescence and the throes of depression to get there. Baltimore, Nine A.M.: Dressed in jeans and a long-sleeved undershirt, Winona Ryder shuffles into the kitchen of her rented home. “I just had a terrible dream,” she says … Continue reading

LIKE ALL COOL CHICKS OF OUR TIME, WINONA RYDER GOT HER FIRST WHIFF OF REBELLION FROM J.D. SALINGER. SHE WAS EIGHT WHEN SHE FIRST read The Catcher in the Rye — Dad’s a writer and bookdealer and an avowed nonconformist, so young Nonie got stuffed up with books early — too young, she thinks, to … Continue reading

In America Winona Ryder is already regarded as the new Liz Taylor, in Germany she is now coming out with three films at once. STERN-reporter Jochen Siemens met the 19 year old – and can’t forget her. A tear. It pearls out of her left eye and runs down her cheek.. The girl is standing … Continue reading

Winona Ryder sits cross-legged and barefoot on a sagging green couch in an empty living room. Ms. Ryder, who likes to say that she has come of age on screen about 900 times, is, equally painfully, coming of age in “Mermaids,” “Edward Scissorhands” and real life. Six weeks past her 19th birthday, she has recently … Continue reading