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Winona Ryder Biography |
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| Winona Ryder is an Academy Award-nominated American actress. She is widely known for her work in the cult classic Heathers, and many other films such as Girl, Interrupted, Little Women, Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands. Ryder was born in Olmsted County, Minnesota and was named after the nearby city of Winona; her paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia and Romania. Her mother is Cindy Horowitz (née Istas) and her father is Michael Horowitz. Her father's family was originally named Tomchin, however Ryder has stated that they were wrongly assigned the name of the family that they were travelling with when they arrived at Ellis Island in 1906. At the age of ten, Ryder and her family moved on again to Petaluma, California. During her first week at the local junior high school she was bullied by a group of thugs who mistook her for an effeminate, scrawny boy. As a result, she ended up being homeschooled that year. Nevertheless, around this time, she started attending the American Conservatory Theater in nearby San Francisco, where she started taking her first acting lessons. On December 12, 2001, Ryder was arrested for shoplifting thousands of dollars' worth of designer clothes and accessories at Saks Fifth Avenue department store in Beverly Hills, California. Los Angeles District Attorney Stephen Cooley established a team of eight prosecutors to prosecute this case, charging her with four felonies. Ryder hired noted defense attorney Mark Geragos and mounted a defense to fight the charges. Negotiations for a plea bargain failed at the end of summer 2002. During the trial, she was also accused of using drugs without valid prescriptions; according to a probation report that can be found on The Smoking Gun website, she had up to 37 prescriptions filled by 20 doctors, using six different aliases, in a three-year period. The defense produced the prescriptions for the drugs that the police found in her purse, and the prosecution consequently dropped the charge. Ryder was convicted of grand theft and vandalism, but the jury acquitted her on the third felony charge (burglary). In December 2002, she was sentenced to three years' probation, 480 hours of community service, ,700 in fines, and ,355 in restitution to Saks – and the judge ordered the actress to attend psychological and drug counselling. The charges were eventually reviewed, and the felonies reduced to misdemeanors, on June 18, 2004. | |||||||||||||
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