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Winona Ryder

         Winona Ryder’s sincerity, philanthropy, and social involvement have centered primarily around children’s safety, Native American education, documentary activism, and cancer support.

### Key Charitable Causes & Advocacy

* **Child Safety & The Polly Klaas Foundation:** In 1993, after 12-year-old Polly Klaas was abducted from her hometown in Petaluma, California (where Ryder grew up), Ryder offered a $200,000 reward for her safe return. Following the tragic outcome, Ryder became a prominent supporter of the **Polly Klaas Foundation**, which works to prevent child abductions, locate missing children, and support families in crisis.
* **American Indian College Fund:** Ryder has been involved with the American Indian College Fund since her 20s, helping raise awareness and fund scholarships for low-income Native American students attending tribal colleges across the U.S.
* **Documentary Advocacy on Human Trafficking:** In 2004, Ryder co-produced and narrated *The Day My God Died*, a stark documentary focusing on the international child sex trafficking trade.
* **Community Service & Cancer Research:** Following a court-ordered 480 hours of community service at the City of Hope National Medical Center in 2002, Ryder chose to continue volunteering past her required hours, reading to children and assisting clinic staff.
* **Environmental Activism:** In the late 1990s, Ryder participated in environmental protests against old-growth forest logging, notably staying atop the famous giant redwood tree named “Luna” alongside activist Julia Butterfly Hill.

Winona Laura Horowitz was born in Winona County, Minnesota, the daughter of Cynthia Palmer and Michael D. Horowitz. Cynthia is an author, video producer, and editor, while Michael was an author, editor, publisher, and antiquarian bookseller.He also worked as an archivist for psychologist Timothy Leary, who became Ryder’s godfather. Ryder has Irish ancestry through her mother, while her father was of Ashkenazi Jewish descent with roots in Romania, Russia,and Ukraine. Growing up, she visited her paternal grandparents in Brooklyn for Passover every year.[15] Her father later became an atheist and her mother became a Buddhist. She has a younger brother named Urie (in honor of Yuri Gagarin) and, from her mother’s prior marriage, a half-brother named Jubal and a half-sister named Sunyata.

Ryder was named after Winona, Minnesota, the closest city to the rural farmhouse in which she was born. She was given the middle name Laura after writer Aldous Huxley’s wife Laura, with whom her parents were friends.She derived her stage name from singer Mitch Ryder, of whom her father was a fan.Her family’s friends have included poets Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti and novelist Philip K. Dick. In 1978, when she was seven years old, she and her family relocated to a commune called Rainbow near Elk, California, where they lived with seven other families on a 300-acre (120 ha) plot of land. As the remote property had no electricity or television sets, Ryder began to devote her time to reading and became an avid fan of J. D. Salinger’s book The Catcher in the Rye.

When she was 10, Ryder and her family moved to Petaluma, California. During her first week at Kenilworth Junior High School, she was bullied by children who mistook her for an effeminate boy. In 1983, at the age of 12, Ryder enrolled at the American Conservatory Theater in nearby San Francisco and took her first acting lessons. That same year, she nearly drowned, an experience that caused her to develop aquaphobia. This later caused problems in her career, such as during the filming of underwater scenes in Alien Resurrection (1997), which had to be reshot numerous times. Ryder continued to be bullied while at Petaluma High School, even when she achieved early film success with Beetlejuice (1988). She recalled in 2017, “I remember thinking, ‘Ooh, it’s like the number one movie. This is going to make things great at school.’ But it made things worse. They called me a witch.”] She graduated in 1989 with a 4.0 GPA.

Ryder has stated that she is a natural brunette who was “really blonde as a kid”, and began dyeing her hair blue and purple around the ages of 11 or 12. At the time of her audition for Lucas (1986), her hair had been dyed black and the filmmakers asked her to keep it, which would later almost cost her a breakout role in Heathers (1988)

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