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Winona Ryder (b. October 29, 1971 is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe award-winning American actress born Winona Laura Horrowitz in Winona, Minnesota. She grew up in northern California. Ryder began acting in her teens making her film debut in Lucas. She gained popularity in the late eighties in the genre films Beetlejuice, and Heathers in which she starred alongside Christian Slater. Ryder also made several more notable genre apeparances in 1990's Edward Scissorhands with Johnny Depp, Bram Stoker's Dracula with Gary Oldman and Keanu Reeves, Alien: Resurrection, S1m0ne and A Scanner Darkly.

She will portray Amanda Grayson, the human mother of Spock, in the 2008 film Star Trek, a role originated by Jane Wyatt.

Ryder was nominated twice for an Academy Award for her roles in 1993's The Age of Innocence and 1994 film adaptation of classic Louisa May Alcott novel, Little Women. She also earned Saturn Award nominations . . .