Winona Ryder
American, Actress
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- Winona was one of the actress to turned down the role of playing Rose DeWitt Bukater in Titanic (1997).
- Winona's godfather is Timothy Leary.
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When she was younger, Winona wanted to be a competitive skateboarder.
She joined Amnesty International at age 12. - In 2000, Winona received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, honoring her legacy in the film industry.
- Winona was named after the nearby city of Winona.
- Winona also has insomnia
- Winona suffers from aquaphobia because of a traumatic near-drowning at the age of 12
- “Winona and Johnny can't keep their hands, lips, mouths, legs off of each other.” - Tim Burton.
- Johnny Depp about the first time he made love with her that was a pure virgin: "I was going insane that night. I didn't know what the *beep* to do. I had so many questions in my head. What if she hates it? What if she doesn't want to do it? What if she thinks I'm a jerk? All those questions, but I was wrong. Very wrong."
- "To have the tattoo removed, or erase it, is to try and say it never happened. If I alter it in some way, make it funny - put her next boyfriend's name on top of it, say - it would still be honest." - Johnny Depp.
- "She's a sweet kid, man. It's always a little weird, you're like 'We used to do this and that, we used to have fun and hang out together.' But at least we were able to feel that for each other. I feel real lucky that we got that." - Johnny Depp.
- “I want our kids to watch Edward Scissorhands and go, "Wow Dad, you and Mom were cool back then." You know? I think that would be really neat." - Johnny Depp.
- "I'd die for her. I love her so much. I don't know what I would do without her. She's going though a lot right now. I wish I could just kiss away the pain, make it go away, stop it, kill it! If she, you know, (gets teary eyed) I don't know what I would do. I'd kill myself. I love that girl. I love her. I love her almost more than I love myself." - Johnny Depp.
- "With her it's different. It even feels different. With my past girlfriends, I felt I didn't really do it with them. Lori, was my first wife. She was great but I feel she didn't really love me for me. Sherilyn was a playboy bunny. I should've stopped when I found that out. She cheated on me and I don't give a *beep* about her. Jen, was a relationship that was so *beep* up. We didn't do anything. I'm not even joking. We didn't do anything. But Winona. It's different. She's my everything. She's my soul, my heart, my girl, my wife to be, my baby's mom, my leading lady. No one will ever fill her shoes. Trust me." - Johnny Depp.
- Johnny's nickname for Winona was: Babydoll and Winona's nickname for Johnny was: My Tattooed Bad Boy."
- “He was so desperately in love with Winona, that when they broke up, he wouldn't admit it was over for the longest time.” - Tim Burton.
- 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.
- Member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1998
- Graduated from Petaluma High School with a 4.0 GPA.
- 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.
- 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.
- Was engaged to Matt Damon. (2000)
- A fan of the film Grey Gardens (1975).
- 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.