Dana Wynter

Dana Wynter (8 June 1931 – 5 May 2011) was a German-born English actress, who was brought up in Britain and Southern Africa. She appeared in film and television for more than forty years beginning in the 1950s with her best known film being Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). A tall, dark beauty, she played both victim and villain. Her characters sometimes faced horrific dangers, both in film and on television, which they often did not survive. But she also played scheming, manipulative women on television mysteries and crime drama procedurals. 2Early life Wynter was born as Dagmar Winter in Berlin, Germany and the daughter of Dr. Peter Wynter (né Winter), a British surgeon, and his wife, Jutta (née Oarda), a native of Hungary. She grew up in Britain. When she was sixteen years old, her father went to Morocco to operate on a woman who would not allow anyone else to attend to her. He visited friends in Southern Rhodesia, fell in love with it, and brought his daughter and her stepmother to live with him ther