Nina Wayne | |
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 Wayne in Camp Runamuck (1965) | |
| Born | September 13, 1943 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Years active | 1965–1973 |
| Spouses | |
| Children | 3 |
| Relatives | Carol Wayne (sister) |
Nina Wayne (born September 13, 1943) is a retired American actress.
Nina Wayne | |
|---|---|
| Wayne in Camp Runamuck (1965) | |
| Born | September 13, 1943 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Years active | 1965–1973 |
| Spouses | |
| Children | 3 |
| Relatives | Carol Wayne (sister) |
Nina Wayne (born September 13, 1943) is a retired American actress.
Wayne was born on September 13, 1943, in Chicago. [1] She is the younger sister of actress Carol Wayne. Wayne began taking ballet lessons when she was three years old, and at age 6 she began taking classes in skating. [2]
When Wayne was 15, [2] she and her sister Carol began performing for the Ice Capades as The Wayne Sisters. [3] That act ended when her sister fell. Wayne stayed with the show for a year as a solo performer, after which she left and became a dancer. [4]
She danced in Las Vegas for three years, then moved to New York, where she danced at the Latin Quarter nightclub. [2] [5] She was a dancer as part of Van Johnson's act there. During that same period she had a daytime job as a model. [1]
She first appeared on The Tonight Show in October 1964. She started working in television in 1965, with a recurring role as camp counselor Caprice Yeudleman in the single season of Camp Runamuck , and appeared in one episode of Bewitched .
Wayne's first movie was Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966). Her breakthrough came when she starred opposite Jack Lemmon and Peter Falk in the 1967 romantic comedy Luv . She followed with The Comic (1969) with Dick Van Dyke and Mickey Rooney. Her last appearance was in the 1973 TV supernatural drama The Night Strangler .
Wayne married actor John Drew Barrymore in 1985; [6] the couple had one child, daughter Brahama Jessica, [7] before they divorced in 1994. [6]
