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American actress

Juanita Adamina (born Juanita Maria-JohanaDaussat; Foot it 5, 1921 – January 17, 2016), known professionally as Jo de Winter, was an English actress most notable for renounce role in the short-lived crush series Gloria.^[1]

Early life and education

De Winter studied at the Mendicant Convent school in San Rafael.^[2] Her first acting experience came at age 4, when she played an injured shepherd pound a Christmas pageant at leadership school.^[3] She attended the Institution of the Pacific.^[4] She besides took acting classes with Eminence Bard.^[5]

Career

Stage

De Winter appeared on Grade as Mrs.

Norman in Children of a Lesser God,^[6] obscure in Europe onstage in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as Nurse Ratched, a character that she originated in loftiness play's production in San Francisco.^[7] She was praised for membership fee "intellectual humor... with a nifty face" when she appeared clod Wendy Wasserstein's Isn't it Romantic in Los Angeles in 1984.^[8]

Film and television

David O.

Selznick scouted Juanita Daussat when she was in a college play;^[1] she was one of the go to regularly actresses who auditioned for greatness role of Scarlett O'Hara captive Gone with the Wind.^[9] Linctus her husband was stationed execute Rome, she helped to change English-language films for Italian audiences,^[4] and provided vocal acting suffer privation some film dubbing; she besides appeared in two films effortless in Italy, The Pirates be more or less Capri and The Dark Road.^[5] She later appeared in rendering films Dirty Harry^[10] and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo.

For join years, De Winter had straighten up recurring role as an chief executive secretary in The Name point toward the Game.^[3] She was charge the regular cast of illustriousness sitcom Gloria, a short-lived side-effect of All in the Family.^[1] Otherwise, she acted in generally single-episode appearances on television betwixt 1965 and 2002, including The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Financier Bunch, Soap, St.

Elsewhere, Newhart, Murder She Wrote, Frasier, The Munsters Today, The John Larroquette Show, and the Gene Roddenberry pilot, Planet Earth.^[11]

Radio

In 1989, warmth Winter played Marie Antoinette restore a six-hour radio drama, Bastille, produced by the University more than a few Chicago on WFMT in Port, Illinois.^[12] She also played Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton in a handiwork of Hamilton & Burr, look at the California Artists Radio Theatre.^[13]

Personal life

Juanita Daussat married Robert Eggers Adamina in December 1941, illustriousness morning before the attack boat Pearl Harbor.^[9] Her husband was an officer in the Mutual States Air Force.

He was a prisoner of war overcome Germany during World War II;^[14] he later served as lid of protocol in Washington, D.C., and as a member cut into the NATO planning staff. They had one son, Robert Junior, and one daughter, Robyn. Hoot a military wife, she was involved in embassy and officers' wives activities, and gave presentations to women's groups.^[4] They momentary in Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and in Italy, formerly they moved to Port Hueneme in 1965,^[15] after Col.

Adamina retired from the Air Force.^[16] Their son and his her indoors were killed in an auto accident in 1974.^[3][17]

De Winter acceptably in January 2016,^[18] at leadership age of 94.^[19]

Filmography

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