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Nov 19, 2008 10:50 am US/Pacific
Winona Ryder Hospitalized After Flight From LAX
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Actress Winona Ryder arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of "A Scanner Darkly" during Los Angeles Film Festival at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre on June 29, 2006 in Los Angeles. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
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Winona Ryder's publicist says the actress was briefly hospitalized after falling ill on a flight from Los Angeles to London's Heathrow Airport.
Publicist Mara Buxbaum says the 37-year-old was taken to a west London hospital as a precaution Wednesday, but has been released and is fine.
Buxbaum declined to go into details of Ryder's illness.
British Airways says a flight from Los Angeles to Heathrow requested priority landing when a female passenger it did not identify required medical attention.
Ryder earned back-to-back Oscar nominations in the 1990s for "Little Women" and the "The Age of Innocence."
She was convicted in 2002 for stealing merchandise from a Saks Fifth Avenue store in Beverly Hills.
Ryder had prescription drugs in her possession when she was arrested, but a drug charge was dropped after a doctor said he had prescribed the medication.
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