When we think of Hollywood stars who are walking green flags, the names that come to mind are few. Within them, however, there is undoubtedly her own Winona Laura Horowitz. Or as we all know her, Winona Ryder.

The lovable actress is famous for the wacky and quirky characters she played early in her career, which ranked her very high on the list of iconic teen idols in the 80s and 90s.

Before long, she proved her acting talent through more classic roles, such as her notable portrayal of Jo in Little Women (1993) and May Welland in Age of Innocence (1994), directed by Martin Scorsese, for which she received her first Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominations. Many nominations later, with an enviable career, Winona Ryder remains among the humble and pleasant personalities of the Hollywood industry, without losing her sparkle.

Today marks her 52nd birthday, and we take a look back at the highlights of her journey from teenage sensation in the 80s to one of Hollywood’s brightest stars to date.

  • Beetlejuice (1988)

Winona Ryder was lucky enough to find herself early on in the fantastically complex world of Tim Burton. In a different and distinctive film for its time, one of the most notable in Burton’s inventive directorial universe, Ryder plays a brooding goth teenager who has the ability to see the dead, which fuels her enthusiasm for the idea of ​​death. The black, horror comedy, far ahead of its time, was the film that highlighted her as an actress. In fact, in September 2024, 36 years after its release, the sequel of the unforgettable film will be released, in which the actress will revisit her role, alongside Michael Keaton and the newly introduced Jenna Ortega and Monica Bellucci. The renewed cocktail of actors is more than interesting and we can’t wait to see the continuation of the scandalous story of the eccentric Beetlejuice.

  • Heathers (1989)

Or the original and darker Mean Girls. Before Lindsay Lohan’s “Plastics”, there were the Heathers, a group of the four most popular girls in high school, three of whom are named – you guessed it – Heather. And somewhere here we meet 17-year-old Winona, in the role of the fourth non-Heather, Veronica. Repressed in a group that doesn’t really express her, Usa falls victim to the supposed crush of a sociopathic student who aims to murder all the popular students, staging the crimes to look like suicides. A chilling manhunt in a black teenage comedy. Ryder’s second hit in a row quickly became a cult classic, giving us one of the most iconic characters.

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