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Winona Ryder
Winona Ryder Height 5' 4" Born October 29 1971 in Winona, Minnesota, USA
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Winona Ryder was born Winona Horowitz and named after her
the town in which she was born, Winona Minnesota. She grew up in a ranch commune
in Northern California where there was no electricity. She is the Goddaughter of
Timothy Leary and her parents were friends of Beat poet Allen Ginsberg and once
edited a book called "Shaman Woman Mainline Lady" an anthology of writings on
the drug experience in literature - this included one piece by Louisa May
Alcott. Winona Ryder was later to star as Jo in this author's Little Women
(1994). She moved with her parents to Petaluma (near San Francisco) when she was
ten and enrolled in acting classes at the American Conservatory Theater. At 13
she had a video audition to the film Desert Bloom (1986), but didn't get the
part. Director David Seltzer, however, spotted her and cast her in Lucas (1986).
When telephoned to ask how she'd like to have her name appear on the credits,
she suggested Ryder as her father's Mitch Ryder album was playing the
background. Ryder was selected for the part of Mary Corleone in The Godfather:
Part III (1990), but had to drop out of the role after catching the flu from the
strain of doing the films Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael (1990) and Mermaids
(1990) back to back. She said she didn't want to let everyone down by doing a
substandard performance. She later made The Age of Innocence (1993) which was
directed by Martin Scorsese, who she believes to be "the best director in the
world".
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