Actress.
Played Miss Clarke in the Avengers episode The Positive Negative Man (1967).
Birthname: Joan Anne Dainton.
And now a surprise: I learned that Joanne born in Yorkshire, England (not Winnipeg, Canada according to various film and TV books).
Yes, it is even stated in the Daily Mirror (although the newspaper is often mistaken) that she was born in Canada. So, how did I get on the trail.
For many years I wondered why I couldn't find something about early years of Joanne in the Winnipeg, if she was supposedly born there.
Today I found information in a newspaper that Joanne's father was British-born Rev. Archibald Stanley Dainton (1894-1975).Archibald worked as a charter account's clerk and lived at 175 Belsize Road, Kilburn - in 1911 in Hampstead, Middlesex, England. In 1913 he immigrated from England to Canada. In 1921 he worked as a clergyman in Whitehead RM, Maniroba, Canada. On July 1, 1924 he married to Canadian-born Mary Ann Young (1896-1978) in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. From 1925 to 1927 he was Reverend in a St. John’s Anglican Church (Reston, RM of Pipestone). He soon returned to England. From 1930 to 1936 he was Vicar of Holland Fen, Lincoln, and for other three years assistant to the Rector of Waddesdon, in Buckinghamshire.
Interesting note from Newspaper Bucks Herald (Friday 29 May 1936):
The Rev. A. S. Dainton, who is succeeding the Rev. H. W. Sonith assistant priest in this parish, now residence at the Rectory with Mrs. Dainton and their infant daughter.
Archibald Stanley Dainton (Family Tree):
https://www.geni.com/people/Archibald-D ... 2543206852
Daughter: Joan A Dainton (born in Yorkshire, United Kingdom in 1935). This is confirmed by official certificates (I checked through Ancestry).
Joanna spent her childhood in England and attended Abbey Junior School in Reading, Berkshire. Joanne told when her father, since 1939, was for seven years vicar of Littlewick, she used to travel to Reading daily.
So, Joanne (or Joan) is British-born person with British childhood, from British-born father!
Joanne married to Ian Bestford in 1983.
The information has already been partially posted on IMDb:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0197411/
