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Biography:
Winona Laura Horowitz was born near Winona, MN, on Oct. 29, 1971. The child of counterculture writers Michael Horowitz and Cynthia Palmer Horowitz, the young girl grew up surrounded by some of the brightest literary lights of the era, with Timothy Leary for a godfather and regular visits with poets Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. The family relocated to San Francisco soon after Ryder was born and moved onto a commune in Northern California’s Mendocino County when she was 10. There she cohabitated with seven other families on a farm without electricity or running water, though her mother used to screen movies in a nearby barn. It was there that Ryder was first inspired to act by watching the films of John Cassavetes — not your usual entertainment for 10 year olds. Nudity, free love, and drag queens were as much a part of her every day life as trips to the outhouse, and when the family moved to a more traditional living situation in the San Francisco suburb of Petaluma, an outcast Ryder with her strange clothes and hair and no-rules parents found herself longing to fit in.