Friday, January 11, 2013

FILM CELEBRITY OF THE DAY — JANUARY 11


WINONA RYDER 



FROM Google Images

STATISTICS: Age 41 (October 29, 1971) — Measurements: 5' 3 1/2", 34C-23-34

FROM IMDB:


She was born WINONA LAURA HOROWITZ in WINONA, MN. Her parents were best friends with beat poet Allen Ginsburg and she is the goddaughter of Dr. Timothy Leary. She was raised in a ranch commune in North Carolina with no running water.

Ryder moved with her parents to Petaluma, California when she was ten and enrolled in acting classes at the American Conservatory Theater. At age 13, she had a video audition to the film Deset Bloom (1986), but did not get the part. However, director David Seltzer spotted her and cast her in Lucas (1986). When telephoned to ask how she would 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 did not want to let everyone down by doing a substandard performance. She later made The Age of Innoncense (1993), which was directed by Martin Scorsese, whom she believes to be "the best director in the world".


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.

Ryder received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7018 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California in October 2000.

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

She dated actor Johnny Depp for many years. He had a tattoo of her name and after they broke up, he had it reduced to "Wino forever."


Ryder suffers from aquaphobia due to trauma she suffered at age 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.

She beat out Kate Beckinsale, Carla Gugino and Uma Thurman for the role of Geneva on The Dilemma (2011).



According to Francis Ford Coppola, much of the cast for Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) was assembled as Winona's "dream cast". I was told by screenwriter James V. Hart in a class of his in Dallas, TX in 2011 that Ryder was the driving force in getting the film made. [Me]

Ryder was considered for the role of Ravenna the Evil Queen in Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) before Charlize Theron got the role.She is on my list of the Sexiest Women in Film. [Me]




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