| 词条 | Danica d'Hondt |
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| name = Danica d'Hondt | image = Danica d'Hondt - Canada 1958.jpg | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1939|5|29}} | birth_place = London, England | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = | other_names = | occupation = | known_for = }} Danica d'Hondt (born May 29, 1939) is an English-Canadian actress, writer and businesswoman. She was a winner of the Miss Canada pageant in 1959 but was born in London, England, of an Irish mother and a Belgian father. She is the sister of Olympic Gold Medalist Walter D'Hondt and the mother of actress America Olivo, mother-in-law of actors Christian Campbell and Jason Brooks. D'Hondt began her career at the age of nine by appearing in a movie at Shepperton Studios in England. She worked in radio, TV and on stage in Canada, where her family emigrated while she was still in school. She graduated from High School in Montreal, and returned to England after attending the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She worked as a stage actress in London, also performing in radio and TV dramas for the BBC, and then relocated to Toronto, Canada, where she became a CBC-TV game show personality and a talk show host at an early age. She also appeared on TV shows out of New York City, and in summer stock theatre in New York and Illinois. She starred with comic Harvey Korman in Living Venus (1961), a film shot in Chicago in 1960. D'Hondt's Hollywood career spans the years from 1960 to 1990, during which time she starred in "B" movies, played supporting roles in major Hollywood movies, and performed guest-starring roles on TV shows of the time as The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964); The Wild Wild West (1965) and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964). She turned down the role of "Ginger" in Gilligan's Island (1964). She left Hollywood from 1966 to 1971, during which time she worked as a theatre director in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she also wrote for a magazine, produced educational films and taught acting at her own school, "The Actor's Lab", on Sacramento Street. Upon her return to Hollywood, in 1971, she directed several stage productions, worked as a writer and associate producer in film and television, and did a stint as a television journalist, becoming the Consumer and Financial Reporter to a syndicated daytime magazine show called "Breakaway". She relocated to Northern California in the 1990s, became active in real estate investing and had two non-fiction books published. D'Hondt has had six children. She currently lives with her husband, Nello Olivo on a vineyard in the Sierra Foothills, where she writes, teaches, and helps her winemaker husband tend their vineyard. The couple also owns a large restaurant and banquet facility in Placerville, California, named "Sequoia". Filmography
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