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 .^[1]

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

De Winter appeared on Broadway as Mrs. Norman in Children of a Lesser God ,^[6] 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.^[7] 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.^[8]

David O. Selznick scouted Juanita Daussat when she was in a college play;^[1] she was one of the many actresses who auditioned for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind .^[9] While her husband was stationed in Rome, she helped to translate English-language films for Italian audiences,^[4] and provided vocal acting for some film dubbing; she also appeared in two films made in Italy, The Pirates of Capri and The Dark Road.^[5] She later appeared in the films Dirty Harry ^[10] and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo .

For three years, De Winter had a recurring role as an executive secretary in The Name of the Game .^[3] She was in the regular cast of the sitcom Gloria, a short-lived spin-off of All in the Family .^[1] Otherwise, she acted in mostly single-episode appearances on television between 1965 and 2002, including The Alfred Hitchcock Hour , The Brady Bunch , Soap , St. Elsewhere , Newhart , Murder She Wrote , Frasier , The Munsters Today , The John Larroquette Show , and the Gene Roddenberry pilot, Planet Earth.^[11]

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.^[12] She also played Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton in a production of Hamilton & Burr, with the California Artists Radio Theatre.^[13]

Juanita Daussat married Robert Eggers Adamina in December 1941, the morning before the attack on Pearl Harbor.^[9] Her husband was an officer in the United States Air Force. He was a prisoner of war in Germany during World War II;^[14] 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.^[4] They lived in Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and in Italy, before they moved to Port Hueneme in 1965,^[15] after Col. Adamina retired from the Air Force.^[16] Their son and his wife were killed in an automobile accident in 1974.^{[3] [17]}

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

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• American stage actresses
• American television actresses
• Actresses from Sacramento, California
• University of the Pacific (United States) alumni
• 21st-century American women

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