--- description: Winona Ryder will star alongside Oscar Issac and Catherine Keener title: Winona Ryder Will Join David Simon's Show Me A Hero image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb45c4f1f2c761271/6986a0591eebf7fba4372546/winona-ryder.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Winona Ryder Will Join David Simon's _Show Me a Hero_ by [Alex Rogers](/author/alex-rogers/) ## Alex Rogers Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 21, 2014 1:34 AM CUT  Actress Winona Ryder attends special screening of "Turks and Caicos" hosted by Vogue and The Cinema Society at the Crosby Street Hotel on April 7, 2014, in New York. Actress Winona Ryder attends special screening of "Turks and Caicos" hosted by Vogue and The Cinema Society at the Crosby Street Hotel on April 7, 2014, in New York.Evan Agostini—Invision/AP by [Alex Rogers](/author/alex-rogers/) ## Alex Rogers Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 21, 2014 1:34 AM CUT Winona Ryder will embark on her “largest TV commitment to date,” joining the _Walking Dead_‘s Jon Bernthal and Alfred Molina for the new HBO miniseries _Show Me A Hero,_ created by _The Wire_‘s David Simon, according to [The Hollywood Reporter](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/winona-ryder-walking-dead-favorite-726625?utm%5Fsource=twitter "undefined"). The six-hour show is based on Lisa Belkin’s eponymous nonfiction book, which was billed as a “A Tale of Murder, Suicide, Race, and Redemption” when it was published in 1999\. The protagonist of _Show Me A Hero_ is Nick Wasicsko (Oscar Issac), the mayor of Yonkers, New York in the late 1980s who, to the detriment of his political career, was court-ordered to build 200 units of low-income public housing in a more upscale, whiter side of town. Ryder will play Vinni Restiano, a Yonkers councilwoman who loses her seat after her housing vote, THR reports. Ryder also joins actress Catherine Keener, who will portray Mary Dorman, an East Yonkers homeowner who comes to a “remarkable realization” of where to build the units. Bernthal will portray Michael H. Sussman, a top NAACP lawyer and Molina will play councilman Henry J. “Hank” Spallone, an anti-housing advocate and former NYPD detective from the Bronx. \[[_THR_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/winona-ryder-walking-dead-favorite-726625?utm%5Fsource=twitter "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3151488/winona-ryder-david-simon-show-me-a-hero/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3151488/winona-ryder-david-simon-show-me-a-hero/"},"headline":"Winona Ryder Will Join David Simon's Show Me a Hero","datePublished":"2014-08-21T01:34:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:46:38.553Z","description":"Winona Ryder will star alongside Oscar Issac and Catherine Keener","url":"https://time.com/3151488/winona-ryder-david-simon-show-me-a-hero/","keywords":["celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb45c4f1f2c761271/6986a0591eebf7fba4372546/winona-ryder.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alex Rogers","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alex-rogers/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb45c4f1f2c761271/6986a0591eebf7fba4372546/winona-ryder.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Actress Winona Ryder attends special screening of \"Turks and Caicos\" hosted by Vogue and The Cinema Society at the Crosby Street Hotel on April 7, 2014, in New York.","caption":"Actress Winona Ryder attends special screening of \"Turks and Caicos\" hosted by Vogue and The Cinema Society at the Crosby Street Hotel on April 7, 2014, in New York.","creditText":"Evan Agostini—Invision/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3151488/winona-ryder-david-simon-show-me-a-hero/","name":"Winona Ryder Will Join David Simon's Show Me a Hero"}}]}] ```