Her film heyday was in the late 80's and the 90's, but she is still acting and appearing in various movies from time to time. The shoplifting incident occurred at a time when she was doing extremely well and it more or less killed her career for some time...or so it seemed.

Winona always excelled at playing a certain "type", and that type was necessarily a very youthful character, because her slender build and delicate features suited those roles. It gets harder to parlay that into good film parts as time goes by.

The shoplifting, seems to me, was evidence of an emotional problem, given the fact that she certainly didn't need to shoplift any fancy clothes!

I like Winona for several reasons, and among them are the fact that she almost always played parts in intelligent movies, did not go the typical starlet route (meaning: turn herself into a blatant sex symbol a la Mariah Carey and a million others), conveyed intelligence and subtlety in the roles she played, and had the sense not to pose for nude photos. The latter was particularly wise on her part. Mystery beats exposure.

She is not one of Hollywood's bankable female stars of the moment any longer for whatever reason. I don't particularly care about that. That whole business is completely ephemeral anyway, so why should it matter?