Winona Ryder

Before they were famous.

- Mark Wasserman

WHEN it comes to Winona Ryder, it’s hard to shake the feeling that she belongs to another era. It’s not just that she doesn’t appear to have aged a day since she reached icon status in the 1990's with films like Edward Scissor hands and Girl, Interrupted. It’s also the way she lives her life. She says that she still keeps old cassette tapes of important voice mails and bootleg VHS tapes of concerts. It took her an ‘embarrassingly long time’ to figure out how to take a selfie on her phone. On the topic of the Internet she muses, “I do wonder sometimes if part of me didn’t want to have kids because it’s such a crazy world. You really can’t control what they see.” Luckily for her, this era – that is, the present one – also belongs to another era. Nostalgia is the strongest tide in Hollywood, from sequels and reboots to original films that harken back to a bygone era – and nobody evokes the past quite like Winona.

WINONA LAURA HOROWITZ was born Winona Laura Horowitz in a farmhouse near Winona, Minnesota, the daughter of Cynthia Palmer (née Istas) and Michael Horowitz.

HER mother is an author, video producer, and editor. Her father is an author, editor, publisher, and antiquarian bookseller.

He also worked as an archivist for psychedelic guru Dr Timothy Leary (who was Ryder’s godfather).