{{short description|American former dancer, actress (born 1943)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Nina Wayne | image = Nina Wayne, Camp Runamuck - Episode 2 (Rabbits of the World Unite) 1965.jpg | caption = Wayne in Camp Runamuck (1965) | birth_name = <!-- Valid citation required for full name for BLP. (WP:BLPPRIVACY) --> | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1943|9|13}} | birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | spouse = {{plainlist| * {{marriage|David Wheeler|1968|1972|end=div.}} * {{marriage|John Drew Barrymore|1985|1994|end=divorced}} }} | children = 3 | years_active = 1965–1973 | relatives = Carol Wayne (sister) }}
'''Nina Wayne''' (born September 13, 1943) is a retired American actress.
==Early years== Wayne was born on September 13, 1943, in Chicago.<ref name="ggsh">{{cite book |first=Tom |last=Lisanti |title=Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood: Seventy-Five Profiles |date=May 7, 2015 |publisher=McFarland |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |isbn=978-1-4766-1241-6 |pages=225–226 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ITClSVUV7voC&dq=%22Nina+Wayne%22&pg=PA225 |access-date=January 12, 2025 |url-access=limited |via=Google Books}}</ref> 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.<ref name="dc">{{cite news |title=Nina Wayne of 'Camp Runamuck' |work=Democrat and Chronicle |date=August 22, 1965 |p=19 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106125416/nina-wayne/ |access-date=July 23, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
==Career== When Wayne was 15,<ref name="dc"/> she and her sister Carol began performing for the Ice Capades as The Wayne Sisters.<ref>{{cite web |author=<!--not stated, or generic Staff--> |title=Wayne sisters |website=harpiesbizarre.com |date=2001 |url=http://www.harpiesbizarre.com/waynesisters.htm |access-date=2015-05-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230716003522/http://www.harpiesbizarre.com/waynesisters.htm |archive-date=2023-07-16 |url-status=dead}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated, or generic Staff--> |title=Smallest, Tiniest Voice Belongs To Nina Wayne |work=The Oil City Derrick |date=September 8, 1967 |page=6 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106124666/nina-wayne/ |access-date=July 23, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
She danced in Las Vegas for three years, then moved to New York, where she danced at the Latin Quarter nightclub.<ref name="dc" /><ref>{{Cite news |first=Earl |last=Wilson |title=Latin Quarter Beauty a Hit |work=Winona Daily News |date=1964-11-03 |page=5 |url=https://openriver.winona.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1513&context=winonadailynews |access-date=2025-08-26 |via=Winona State University Archives}}</ref> She was a dancer as part of Van Johnson's act there. During that same period she had a daytime job as a model.<ref name="ggsh" />
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''.
==Personal life== Wayne married actor John Drew Barrymore in 1985;<ref name="tcmdb">{{cite web |title=John Drew Barrymore |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/10736%7C87442/John-Drew-Barrymore/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141024024125/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/10736%7C87442/John-Drew-Barrymore/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 24, 2014 |website=TCM Movie Database |access-date=12 September 2023}}</ref> the couple had one child, daughter Brahama Jessica,<ref>{{cite news |first=Jenn |last=Selby |title=Jessica Barrymore: Drew Barrymore releases statement after her half sister is found dead |work=The Independent |date=31 July 2014 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/jessica-barrymore-drew-barrymore-releases-statement-after-her-half-sister-is-found-dead-9639687.html |access-date=6 June 2023}}</ref> before they divorced in 1994.<ref name="tcmdb"/>
==Filmography== * ''Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round'' (1966) as Frieda Schmid * ''Luv'' (1967) as Linda * ''The Comic'' (1969) as Sybil Atlas * ''The Night Strangler'' (1973) as Charisma Beauty
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons category|Nina Wayne}} * {{IMDb name}}
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