Dana Wynter (born Dagmar Winter; 8 June 1931 – 5 May 2011) was a German-born English actress, who was brought up in Britain and Southern Africa. She appeared in film and television for more than 40 years, beginning in the 1950s with her best-known film being Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). A tall, dark, elegant beauty, she played both victim and villain. Her characters sometimes faced horrific dangers, both in film and on television, which they often did not survive, but she also played scheming, manipulative women on television mysteries and crime procedural dramas.
Wynter was born in Berlin, Germany, the daughter of Dr. Peter Winter, a British surgeon, and his wife Jutta Oarda, a native of Hungary.
She grew up in Britain. When she was 16, her father visited friends in Southern Rhodesia, fell in love with the country, and brought his daughter and her stepmother to live with him there.