After a huge fall from grace in the early '00s, Winona Ryder has managed to climb her way back to the top.
She stars as Joyce Byers on Netflix's Stranger Things, but she'll always be remembered for her iconic roles in Beetlejuice, Girl, Interrupted, and Edward Scissorhands.
She was even besties with Gwyneth Paltrow at one point. Here are 10+ other random facts.
In 2001, she made headlines for stealing $5,560 of stuff from Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills.
In the end, she was convicted of grand theft and vandalism. No one understood why she stole.
“Psychologically, I must have been at a place where I just wanted to stop. I won’t get into what happened, but it wasn’t what people think,” Ryder told Porter magazine.
‘My hiatus,’ she said, rolling her eyes to Marie Claire U.K. .
"Whatever they want to call it – I did take time off. It was mutual, I think. I just went through a tough time."
The pair first met at the 1989 premiere of Great Balls of Fire! in New York.
Winona was 17 at the time and Depp was 26. They are still one of the most famous couples of all time.
“There’s been nothing in my 27 years that’s comparable to the feeling I have with Winona,” he once told People about Ryder.
“When I met Johnny, I was pure virgin,” she once said.
"He changed that. He was my first everything. My first real kiss. My first real boyfriend. My first fiancé. The first guy I had sex with. So he’ll always be in my heart. Forever.”
He's a true ryde-or-die.
The actors first became friends when they worked on Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 film, Dracula. Since then, they've done four films together, with Destination Wedding being their latest.
In an interview with The Sunday Times, Winona said that the director asked Keanu and the other actors to hurl horrible insults at hr to make her cry.
But they all — including Keanu — refused.
While a lot of younger fans know her as Joyce Byers from Stranger Things, back in the '90s, she was somewhat of a big thing.
She starred in beloved movies, such as Beetlejuice, Girl, Interrupted, and Edward Scissorhands.
Back in the '90s, these actresses were thicker than thieves.
But speaking of thieves, that's allegedly what broke their friendship up... The rumor has it that Paltrow stole the lead role in Shakespeare in Love from Ryder.
To add insult to injury, Gwynweh went on to win an Oscar for Best Actress for the role.
Hopefully, Winona can take comfort in the fact that Paltrow's acceptance speech is super cringe-y...
Her real name is Winona Laura Horowitz.
She got the idea for her stage name simply by being in the right place at the right time.
When someone asked how she would like her name to appear in movie credits, Mitch Ryder’s album was playing in the background at the same time.
She's part of a huge list of celebrities who have had cameos on the show. This includes Susan Sarandon, Bruce Willis, and even Brad Pitt.
Ryder played Melissa, Rachel's college friend who was secretly still in love with her.
Plans changed when Ryder’s parents were at a laundromat in the Minnesota city of Winona.
“She bent over to pick up this pamphlet with a girl on the cover, which said The Legend of Winona, and she went into labor,” she told Vogue.
This was even after she starred in Beetlejuice as a teen.
"I remember thinking, 'Ooh, it's, like, the number-one movie. This is going to make things great at school," she told Marie Claire U.K.
"They called me a witch," she said.
Well, with a successful career under her belt and the fact that she's best friends with Keanu Reeves, we say that she's doing okay.
She was in the 1994 version, which also starred Susan Sarandon, Kirsten Dunst, and Claire Danes.
"The one that I made was a really, really special movie for me, one of my very, very personal favorites," she told Vogue.
She's got Johnny'sback.
In court files, she said that she was “absolutely shocked, confused and upset” over the allegations that her ex had been violent with Heard.
