30 Remarkable Photos Of A ’90s-Era Winona Ryder
It tracks that Winona Ryder, every goth girl’s ’90s style icon, would be born just two days before Halloween. From to , to The Age of Innocence, the off-kilter and other-worldly characters she played on screen seemed totally in tune with her off-duty penchant for black slip dresses, white lace and a bright red lip.
But, before she became the poster girl for her era, and earned two Oscar nominations while doing it, Ryder was a child star, who started acting lessons aged 12, and made her screen debut at 14, in the high-school drama , opposite a young Corey Haim and Charlie Sheen.
Two years later, Tim Burton came calling with , and the part of the hollow-eyed, shimmying Lydia Deetz, which swiftly made the actor a household name.
Now, on Ryder’s 55th birthday, we present 30 glorious throwback photos from the first decade of her career, charting her rise from fresh face to Hollywood heavyweight.
