FrameThrower · Actors · Winona Ryder
Winona Ryder
15 films · 915 frames · top-billed in 11 · 1988–2024
Born 29 October 1971 · Winona, Minnesota, USA
Winona Laura Horowitz, known professionally as Winona Ryder, is an American actress. She is the recipient of several awards, including a Golden Globe Award, and has been nominated for two Academy Awards. She is known for taking on quirky roles in her earlier films, later playing more prominent roles in the 1990s.
After Ryder's film debut in Lucas (1986), she gained attention with her performance in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice (1988). She further rose to prominence with major roles in Heathers (1989), Mermaids (1990), Edward Scissorhands (1990), and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 15 films · 915 frames · top-billed in 11 · 1988–2024
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture1993
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series2017
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Jupiter Awards
How their films are shot
Measured across 915 frames from the 15 films we hold. This is the look of the work Winona takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 15 films we hold, 57% of their frames are night, 51% low key — the look of the work Winona takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
2024 · Lydia
Destination Wedding
2018 · Lindsay
Experimenter
2015 · Alexandra "Sasha" Milgram
Alien: Resurrection
1997 · Call
The Crucible
1996 · Abigail Williams
The Age of Innocence
1993 · May Welland
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
1992 · Mina Murray / Elisabeta
Night on Earth
1991 · Corky
Edward Scissorhands
1990 · Kim
Beetlejuice
1988 · Lydia
Heathers
· Veronica Sawyer
Frankenweenie
2012 · Elsa Van Helsing (voice)
Black Swan
2010 · Beth Macintyre / The Dying Swan
A Scanner Darkly
2006 · Donna Hawthorne
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
2004 · Psychologist
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 915 frames from Winona Ryder's 15 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.