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Sun, 03 Jun 2012 08:41:15 -0400

Leading Ladies…. Winona Ryder.

Date of Birth

29 October 1971, Winona, Minnesota, USA

Birth Name

Winona Laura Horowitz

Nickname

Noni

Height

5’ 3½” (1.61 m)

Mini Biography

Winona Ryder was born Winona Horowitz and named after the town in which she was born, Winona, Minnesota. She grew up in a ranch commune in Northern California which had no electricity. She is the goddaughter of Timothy Leary.

Trade Mark

Frequently plays a character who writes. In most of her films, she’s played a journalist, reporter, a writer, or just a teenager who writes in a journal or diary.

Trivia

Her real hair color is blonde but when she made her first major film, Lucas (1986), her hair color was dyed black. She was told to keep it that color and with the exception of Edward Scissorhands (1990), it has stayed that color since.

Injured knee while filming Girl, Interrupted (1999). [22 March 1999]

Ranked #42 in Empire (UK) magazine’s the Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time list. [October 1997]

Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World. [1997]

Born at 11:00am, CDT.

She briefly checked herself into a hospital when she was 20, because she was suffering from depression, anxiety attacks, and exhaustion, resulting from constantly working on films.

Graduated from Petaluma High School with a 4.0 GPA.

Received a star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California, in October 2000, and was voted Best-Dressed Celebrity of the Week by Entertainment Weekly for the event.

Helped Italian designer Giorgio Armani promote his Manhattan chain of stores. [1996]

Had to turn down the role of Nina in The Object of My Affection (1998) due to scheduling conflicts. [1997]

Chosen as one of the Top Players Under 35 list by People magazine. [1996]

Began work on Girl, Interrupted (1999), which took four more years to make it to the screen. [1996]

The role of Nola in Celebrity (1998) was actually written for Drew Barrymore. [1997]

Although there was no electricity on the commune where they lived, when Winona was seven, her mother began to run an old movie theater in a nearby barn and would screen movies all day. She allowed Winona to miss school to watch movies with her.

Independent filmmaker Jim Jarmusch wrote a part specifically for her in Night on Earth (1991), as a tattooed, chain-smoking cabbie who dreams of becoming a mechanic.

She dedicated the film Little Women (1994) to Polly Klaas, a young girl from her hometown of Petaluma, California, who was kidnapped and brutally murdered. She offered a $200,000 reward for anyone with information on the subject, and remains a strong supporter of the Polly Klaas Foundation.

Auditioned for the Marla Singer role in Fight Club (1999), which eventually went to Helena Bonham Carter.

Beat poet Allen Ginsberg was a close friend of her parents.

Upset with MGM for refusing to pre-screen Autumn in New York (2000), saying she was very proud of the film and that the studio was giving it a bad name before it was even released. [2000]

Refused to do promotion for Lost Souls (2000). [2000]

Signed on to “The Girl You Want.” After a few weeks of preproduction, she received a new version of the script, which she hated, and tried to get out of her contract. Touchstone Pictures threatened to sue her if she did, and so she completed the film. The film’s title was changed toBoys (1996) and sat on the shelf for more than a year. After it finally got its release, it was released in less than 100 theaters in North America and grossed less than five hundred thousand dollars. [1995]

Her favorite book is J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye.” She says she owns every paperback edition and translations.

In late 1999, she started her own music company, Roustabout Studios.

Presented Best Picture contender The Cider House Rules (1999) at the 72nd Academy Awards. [March 2000]

Appeared on the season finale of “Saturday Night Live” (1975) as herself. [19 May 2001]

Presented singer Björk at the 2001 Academy Awards in the category Best Original Song.

Had to turn down the role of Alice Sutton in Conspiracy Theory (1997), which went to Julia Roberts, because of scheduling conflicts.

The film Lost Souls (2000), though it was released in late 2000, was actually shot in 1998, and New Line Cinema kept in on the shelf for two years.

Had one date with Old 97’s frontman Rhett Miller, who wrote the song “Rollerskate Skinny” about her.

Turned down the lead role in Sabrina (1995) because she felt she could not fill Audrey Hepburn’s shoes and that the role was marked by sexism. [1994]

Her agent begged her not to do Heathers (1988), saying her career would be over.

Enrolled at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco at the age of 12.

The first house she bought was in the Hollywood Hills. She soon moved, saying she never fitted in.

Says Sarah Miles’s performance in Ryan’s Daughter (1970/I) inspired her to become a professional actress.

First auditioned for the role of Blanca in The House of the Spirits (1993) when she was sixteen, but the part went to Pernilla August. The film took years to get made, and when it finally did, August had to drop out at the last minute due to pregnancy, and Winona replaced her.

Dropped out of The Godfather: Part III (1990). She said in an interview later that year that she arrived in Rome to film and simply could not get out of bed. A doctor was called and ordered her to return home and sleep.

Dated Johnny Depp for many years. He had a tattoo of her name and after they broke up, he had it reduced to “Wino forever.”

Was considered for the part of Janet in a big-screen remake of “Three’s Company” (1976) opposite Ben Stiller and Cameron Diaz, but the project was eventually cancelled.

Suffered severe stomach pains and doubled over in pain. She was sent to her hotel room in London, England, UK, and later was admitted to the hospital and diagnosed with a severe gastroenterological disorder. She left the UK on August 24th. The sickness caused her to drop out of the (unreleased) film Lily and the Secret Planting (2002) and her part eventually went to Kate Winslet instead. Winona was said to have been very passionate about her role in the film and was heartbroken to leave. The incident brought to mind the similar 1990 stomach flu that caused her to drop out of The Godfather: Part III (1990) two days before filming began, causing a lot of controversy. [16 August 2001]

Was arrested in Beverly Hills for allegedly stealing clothing items and carrying illegal pharmaceutical drugs without a prescription. Her lawyer denied the accusations, and Winona was released later that evening on $20,000 bail. Despite her alleged crime, Beverly Hills police described her as “very friendly, polite, and cooperative” and “a nice lady.” [December 12, 2001]

Appeared on the cover of the June 2002 cover of W magazine wearing a “Free Winona” T-shirt. “Free Winona” T-shirts became popular over the Internet following her December 22, 2001 arrest, with many fans sporting them and purses in support.

Broke her arm during the filming of Mr. Deeds (2002), in the scene where she and Adam Sandler are riding bikes down a flight of stairs.

November 6, 2002. She was found guilty of vandalism and grand theft in connection with the shoplifting charges dating from back on December 12, 2001. Sentencing is scheduled for December 6, 2002. She was acquitted of a third charge, burglary.

6 December 2002 - Sentenced to 480 hours of community service, three years’ probation, $3700 in fines, and $6355 in restitution for her arrest on shoplifting charges.

Measurements: 34C-22-34 (1992- on set of “Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)”), 35C-23 1/2- 34 (1996 designer notes), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine).

Was the host during Will Ferrell’s final episode as a regular cast member of “Saturday Night Live” (1975).

Dropped out of Eulogy (2004).

Turned down the role of Katrina in Sleepy Hollow (1999), which went to Christina Ricci.

A fan of the film Grey Gardens (1975).

Suffers from insomnia. She allegedly has had a habit of talking on the phone with actor Al Pacino, who also suffers from insomnia.

Suffers from aquaphobia due to trauma she suffered at the age of 12 when she nearly drowned. This caused problems when she had to act in some of the underwater scenes in Alien: Resurrection (1997). The scenes had to be re-shot numerous times because of this.

Member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1998

Her friendship with best friend Gwyneth Paltrow ended in the late 1990s because their lives grew apart.

Persuaded Universal Pictures to turn the February 1994 Los Angeles premiere of Reality Bites (1994) into a benefit for the Polly Klaas Foundation. She also had enough clout to see that Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women” - Polly’s favorite book - was made into Little Women(1994), with Winona in the title role and the film dedicated to Polly Hannah Klaas.

She is the 2,165th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Her great friend, Anthony Hopkins attended the ceremony. November 2000.

She was harassed her first week of junior high school when a group of bullies mistook her for an effeminate, scrawny boy.

She was given an honorary Master of Fine Arts degree from the American Conservatory Theater.

Avid reader of 1960s literature (Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac), but also F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen, Aldous Huxley, Oscar Wilde, and many more. All-time favorite book is “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger.

She is also into music and plays the guitar. Her favorite band at one point was The Replacements, but she also loves Tom Waits, Cocteau Twins, Wilco and many others.

She owns some of Hollywood’s stars’ most priceless possessions (Louis Armstrong’s bongo drums among others). She also has a collection of vintage Hollywood costumes, including Russ Tamblyn’s jacket from West Side Story (1961), Leslie Caron’s dress from An American in Paris(1951), Claudette Colbert’s gown from It Happened One Night (1934), Olivia de Havilland’s blouse from Gone with the Wind (1939), and Sandra Dee’s bikini from the “Tammy movies”.

Has done various commercials for cars (Subaru), coffee (Café Latté) and for Italian designer Giorgio Armani. Also participated in a clothing campaign (2003) for designer and friend Marc Jacobs (IV).

Most of her early childhood was spent in Petaluma,Sonoma county. The family spent some time in Columbia with Chilean revolutionaries in the mid-70s. They moved to a 300 acre commune in Elk, Mendocino County with seven other families in the late 1970s.

Her godfather is Timothy Leary.

Good friends with Courtney Love.

Took her last name Ryder from singer Mitch Ryder of ‘Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels’. She saw one of his albums in her father’s record collection.

The rock group, “The Wynona Ryders” named themselves after her.

Owns a three bedroom house on Union Street in San Francisco that she purchased in 1995 for $1,3000,000 as well as her long time four bedroom mini-manse on N. Doheny Drive in Los Angeles that she purchased in 1998 for $2,600,000.

Sold her Manhattan co-operative apartment located at 1 Lexington Avenue in the relatively halcyon Gramercy Park neighborhood for $2,200,000.

Joined Amnesty International at the age of 12.

Ryder was discovered by a casting director at Salmagundi.

Bought her current Spanish-style Beverly Hills home from Rene Russo’s sister, who is also the ex-wife of Bernie Taupin, Elton John’s lyricist.

It was Winona who brought the idea of redoing Bram Stoker’s novel “Dracula” to Francis Ford Coppola’s attention. She had been given a pile of scripts by her agent, one of which was titled “Dracula: The Untold Story”. This was the first time Ryder had ever read anything to do with Dracula, let alone see a film about him. Coppola was interested as he saw it as a bridge-building exercise between him and Ryder after she had inexplicably dropped out of The Godfather: Part III (1990).

Personal Quotes

When asked why is she always playing teenagers, during a press junket for Mermaids (1990) in 1990: “Like, I’m nineteen. What am I supposed to do, play a judge?!”

I read biographies of the greats, and they were so messed up that I thought I’d better mess myself up. But I couldn’t. I’m too small.

For a long time I was almost ashamed of being an actress. I felt like it was a shallow occupation. People would be watching my every move.

On Heathers (1988): “It’s a brilliant piece of literature, and I call it literature because it really is. I held it up next to ‘Catcher in the Rye’ and all the great books that I’ve read.”

Salary

Alien: Resurrection (1997)

$2,800,000

Winona’s IMDB page.

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Sun, 03 Jun 2012 07:52:46 -0400

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Sun, 03 Jun 2012 06:04:00 -0400

chronicillnesscat:

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat. Text reads: TOP: “Six prescriptions?” BOTTOM: “Just another day.”]

The pharmacy staff knows me by name at this point.

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Sun, 03 Jun 2012 05:18:01 -0400

the-listening:

chaystar:

beaversandcupcakes:

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A BRILLIANT DISGUISE FOILED

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WHAT GAVE MAGNETO AWAY?

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Sun, 03 Jun 2012 04:17:35 -0400

Disobedient Shura.

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 03:21:40 -0400

Disobedient Shura.

dizzzypie: nuestrahermana: Bad Ass Black Goths: A Photoset For...

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 02:35:24 -0400

dizzzypie:

nuestrahermana:

Bad Ass Black Goths: A Photoset For You To Reblog & Throw In People’s Faces

by Nuestra Hermana

In case you didn’t know, there has always been a lot of backwards ass racist sentiments towards black goths. Statements like, “there aren’t any black goths”, “black people just don’t look right as goth”, “Black goths are scary”, “Black people shouldn’t be goth” are prominent throughout the internet and within clubs and community circles.

Translated, these statements in their simplest root read something along the lines of: Black people cannot be gothic because they are not white.

Of course, not every non-black goth is this way but you will see more than plenty proclaim any of the above without a thought of how erasing and racist it is towards black goths.

Recently, I read someone posting something along the very same sentiment, claiming they had never seen a black person “pull off” being goth.

This here, is for all of you dears who truly believe that. I’m here to simply show you that Black goths do it real fucking well & are just as dark souled & artistically amazingly magnificent in the goth community (if not even more, yes, I did just say that to you.)

If you don’t know much about this or simply don’t believe me, you can read more for yourself here , where someone is asking for advice on “on how you would approach one” and here, where someone claims that black people make terrible vampires (TW: racist slurs)… and here where a black goth is attacked for simply asking if there are any other black goths in his area.

If you’re black and goth and want some support:

Black & African American Goths

Black/African-American Goths (364 members! Yes.)

Ps: I had a bunch more pictures but I couldn’t fit them in to this photoset.

"How embarrassing it is to be human."

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 01:45:15 -0400

“How embarrassing it is to be human.”

- Kurt Vonnegut (via seppooku)

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Sun, 03 Jun 2012 00:52:45 -0400

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buttgenie:

khunceited:

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Laughing so hard

YES.

equalistsfuckshitup: blazn: Am I kicked out of the fandom...

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 00:23:02 -0400

equalistsfuckshitup:

blazn:

Am I kicked out of the fandom yet?

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mixtapetea started following you WOAH. A wild follower appears. 45 followers away from a giveaway!...

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 00:21:09 -0400

mixtapetea started following you

WOAH. A wild follower appears.

45 followers away from a giveaway! Dang, guys. That was fast.

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Sun, 03 Jun 2012 00:16:59 -0400

neshota:

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Jesus Christ am I glad I kept practicing.

OKAY SO I HAVEN’T IMPROVED THAT MUCH BUT IT’S A START.

…shut up.

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Sat, 02 Jun 2012 23:26:17 -0400

void-stuff:

student-truth:

Headmaser Cid looks just like Robin Williams. Haha!

I’ve thought this since the first time I played VIII. Headcanon.

Mind. Blown.

EVERYBODY HIDE.

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 23:18:22 -0400

Interviewer: I blush to say it, but are you aware there's a "F-ck Yeah, Tom Hiddleston" tumblr?
Tom: [Smiles] I am.

THE AIRPORT THOUGH.

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 23:18:09 -0400

THE AIRPORT THOUGH.

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Sat, 02 Jun 2012 23:14:01 -0400

tehfawx:

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yukaito:

Tagged: #yu yu hakusho #yyh #Gif #out of context this looks like Kaito’s got one of those sneezes that won’t come out and Kurama’s waiting on it to say Bless You #or whatever Kurama would say when people sneeze #I really hope you people read my tags sometimes

ಠ_ಠ

Oh my god. XD

Knowing Kurama he’d wait until just before it came out and yell ‘gesundheit!’ or something because everyone knows if you say it before the sneeze happens the sneeze is aborted and he’s a dick like that.

I still don’t understand how fifty thousand seeds didn’t fall the fuck out of his head.

Seriously.

HOW.

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Sat, 02 Jun 2012 22:46:35 -0400

feelbender:

unlimitedobsessions:

korra-the-leaf:

ACCURATE.

SO ACCURATE.

SO VERY ACCURATE.

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