A supporting role in HBO's Show Me a Hero in 2015 led to her big step back into the spotlight with a lead role on Netflix's Stranger Things. After a shoplifting scandal (FREE WINONA!), Ryder struggled to get back into the business, subsisting on small roles in films like Star Trek and Black Swan. She also executive produced and starred in Girl, Interrupted, which won an Oscar for Angelina Jolie. Two-time Academy Award nominee Winona Ryder made her screen debut in 1986's Lucas and has been a defining actress for an entire generation thanks to her roles in movies like Heathers, Beetlejuice, Mermaids, and Reality Bites. Here's a rundown of the series' top players: Winona Ryder The HBO adaptation is being undertaken by David Simon and Ed Burns, who together created The Corner, The Wire and Generation Kill, and they've gathered some top-notch performers to fill out their cast. The novel, first published in 2004, presents an alternate history of America, one in which Franklin Roosevelt lost the 1940 election to Charles Lindbergh, whose antisemitism and Nazi sympathies change the course of American history and, in particular, the lives of a Jewish-American family in New Jersey. Tonight HBO premieres the first part of its six-episode miniseries adaptation of Philip Roth's The Plot Against America.
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