We were all awkward teenagers once.

It's refreshing, and encouraging, to know that even the biggest celebrities were all once regular teenagers just trying to get through the complexities of young adult life. The Bay Area has always been home to some great talent; catch a glimpse of a few before they got famous, in this little jaunt into NorCal history.

Winona Ryder

  

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In the Bay Area, it will always be "Winona Forever." The actress, who is currently starring in the hit show, Stranger Things, and was the "it" girl of the '90s, was born in Petaluma. She was born Winona Laura Horowitz, and studied at Petaluma High School and San Francisco's A.C.T.