Dana wynter biography
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Dana Wynter
German-born English actress (–)
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| Born | Dagmar Winter ()8 June Berlin, Germany |
| Died | 5 May () (aged&#;79) Ojai, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years&#;active | – |
| Spouse | Greg Bautzer &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#; |
| Children | 1 |
Dana Wynter (born Dagmar Winter; 8 June [1][2]&#;&#; 5 May ) was a German-born British actress, who was raised in the United Kingdom and southern Africa. She appeared in film and television for more than 40 years, beginning in the s. Her best-known film performance was in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (). A tall, dark, elegant beauty, she played both victim and villain. Her characters both in film and on television sometimes faced horrific dangers, which they often did not survive, but she also played scheming, manipulative women on television mysteries and crime procedural dramas.
Early life
[edit]Wynter was born in Berlin
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The daughter of a noted surgeon, Dana Wynter was born Dagmar Winter in Berlin, Germany, and grew up in England. When she was 16 her father went to Morocco, reportedly to operate on a woman who wouldn't allow anyone else to attend her; he visited friends in Southern Rhodesia, fell in love with it and brought his daughter and her stepmother to live with him there. Wynter later enrolled as a pre-med student at Rhodes University (the only girl in a class of boys) and also dabbled in theatrics, playing the blind girl in a school production of "Through a Glass Darkly", in which she says she was "terrible."
After a year-plus of studies, she returned to England and shifted gears, dropping her medical studies and turning to an acting career. She was appearing in a play in Hammersmith when an American agent told her he wanted to represent her. She left for New York on November 5, , "Guy Fawkes Day," a holiday commemorating a attempt to blow up the Parliame
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