Jo de Winter

Juanita Adamina (born Juanita Maria-Johana Daussat; March 5, 1921 – January 17, 2016), known professionally as Jo de Winter, was an American actress most notable for her role in the short-lived television series Gloria.

Early life and education De Winter studied at the Dominican Convent school in San Rafael, California. Her first acting experience came at age 4, when she played an injured shepherd in a Christmas pageant at the school. She also took acting classes with Ben Bard.

Career

Stage De Winter appeared on Broadway as Mrs. Norman in Children of a Lesser God, and in Europe onstage in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as Nurse Ratched, a role that she originated in the play's production in San Francisco. She was praised for offering "intellectual humor... with a straight face" when she appeared in Wendy Wasserstein's Isn't it Romantic in Los Angeles in 1984.

Film and television David O. Selznick scouted Juanita Daussat when she was in a college play; While her husband was stationed in Rome, she helped to translate English-language films for Italian audiences, and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo.

For three years, De Winter had a recurring role as an executive secretary in The Name of the Game.

Radio In 1989, de Winter played Marie Antoinette in a six-hour radio drama, Bastille, produced by the University of Chicago on WFMT in Chicago, Illinois. She also played Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton in a production of Hamilton & Burr, with the California Artists Radio Theatre.

Personal life and death Juanita Daussat married Robert Eggers Adamina in December 1941, the morning before the attack on Pearl Harbor. he later served as chief of protocol in Washington, D.C., and as a member of the NATO planning staff. They had one son, Robert Jr., and one daughter, Robyn. As a military wife, she was involved in embassy and officers' wives activities, and gave presentations to women's groups. after Col. Adamina retired from the Air Force. Their son and his wife were killed in an automobile accident in 1974.

De Winter died in January 2016, at the age of 94.

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