Early Life
Wynter was born as Dagmar Winter in Berlin, Germany, the daughter of Dr. Peter Wynter (née Winter), a noted British surgeon, and his wife, Jutta Oarda, a native of Hungary. She grew up in England. When she was sixteen years old her father went to Morocco to operate on a woman who would not allow anyone else to attend her. He visited friends in Southern Rhodesia, fell in love with it and brought his daughter and her stepmother to live with him there.
Dana Wynter (as she called herself) later enrolled at South Africa's Rhodes University (the only female student in a class of 150) and dabbled in theatre, playing the blind girl in a school production of Through a Glass Darkly, in which she claimed to be "terrible". After more than a year of studies, she returned to England, dropped her medical studies and turned to acting.
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