1. Danica d'Hondt was born on 29 May 1939 and is an English-Canadian actress, writer, businesswoman and beauty pageant titleholder.
12 Facts About Danica d'Hondt
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Danica d'Hondt was a winner of the Miss Canada 1960 and represented her country at Miss World 1960 where she placed Top 18.
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Danica d'Hondt has worked in American television and film, and theater productions in the San Francisco area.
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Danica d'Hondt is the sister of Canadian Olympic Gold Medalist Walter D'Hondt, the mother of actress America Olivo, the aunt of athlete Gillian d'Hondt, and mother-in-law of actors Christian Campbell and Jason Brooks.
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Danica d'Hondt worked in radio, TV and on stage in Canada, where her family emigrated while she was still in school.
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Danica d'Hondt graduated from high school in Montreal, and returned to England after attending the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
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Danica d'Hondt worked as a stage actress in London, 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.
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Danica d'Hondt appeared on TV shows out of New York City, and in summer stock theatre in New York and Illinois.
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Danica d'Hondt starred with comic Harvey Korman in Living Venus, a film shot in Chicago in 1960.
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Danica d'Hondt turned down the role of "Ginger" in Gilligan's Island because production stalled, which prevented her from doing other films.
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Danica d'Hondt left Hollywood from 1966 to 1971, during which time she worked as a theatre director in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she wrote for a magazine, produced educational films and taught acting at her own school, "The Actor's Lab", on Sacramento Street.
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Danica d'Hondt relocated to Northern California in the 1990s, became active in real estate investing and had two non-fiction books published.