Danica d'Hondt (born 29 May 1939) is an English-Canadian actress, writer, businesswoman and beauty pageant titleholder.

[1] She graduated from high school in Montreal, and returned to England after attending the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

[2] She left Hollywood from 1966 to 1971, during which time she worked as a theatre director in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she also wrote for a magazine, produced educational films and taught acting at her own school, "The Actor's Lab", on Sacramento Street.

[citation needed] She relocated to Northern California in the 1990s,[1] became active in real estate investing and had two non-fiction books published.

[3] The couple also owns a large restaurant and banquet facility in Placerville, California, named "Sequoia".