Winona Ryder is one of the biggest breakout actresses of the 1980s. Born in Minnesota in 1971, Ryder made her feature film debut as a featured player in a teenage drama called Lucas , where she was seen by an up-and-coming director named Tim Burton . At the age of 17, she played a role in a little film called Beetlejuice , and the rest is history. After an initial downturn in the mid-2000s amidst some personal controversies, her career hit new heights again thanks to her role as Joyce Byers on the hit Netflix show Stranger Things .

Over the course of her career, she’s been cast primarily in extremely dramatic roles, like Abigail Williams or Mina Harker, as eccentric, quirky characters, like Lydia Deetz or Veronica Sawyer, or sometimes, like in the case of Joyce Byers, both.

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