In 2010, she was nominated for two Screen Actors Guild Awards: as the lead actress in When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story and as part of the cast of Black Swan.
In 2016, she starred as Joyce Byers in the Netflix supernatural-horror series Stranger Things.
One of the most profitable and iconic 1990s actresses, she made her film debut in the 1986 film Lucas.
After appearances in film and on television, Ryder continued her acting career with the cult film Heathers 1988 , a controversial satire of teenage suicide and high school life that has since become a landmark teen film.
She later appeared in the Generation X hit Reality Bites 1994 , Alien: Resurrection 1997 , the Woody Allen comedy Celebrity 1998 , and Girl, Interrupted 1999 , which she also executive-produced.
Her relationship with Johnny Depp in the early 1990s and a 2001 arrest for shoplifting were constant subjects of tabloid journalism.