Linda Dona
Actress

Linda Dona Net Worth

Linda Dona is an actress born on August 08, 1950. She is best known for her roles in Ricochet (1991), Commander in Chief (2005) and Future Kick (1991). She has had a long and successful career in the entertainment industry.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Actress
Birth Day August 08, 1950
Age 72 YEARS OLD
Occupation Writer, broadcaster, critic

💰 Net worth

Linda Dona, a renowned actress, is expected to have a net worth ranging from $100,000 to $1 million in 2024. Born in 1950, Linda Dona has established herself in the entertainment industry with her remarkable talent and captivating presence on screen. Throughout her illustrious career, she has garnered a significant amount of wealth, serving as a testament to her success. With her outstanding contributions to the world of acting, Linda Dona continues to captivate audiences and leave a lasting impact on the industry.

Biography/Timeline

1988

Back in London she worked for two years at BBC Radio 4, producing its then arts magazine Kaleidoscope, before travelling again, this time overland through North, Central and South America, a trip that became research material for her first solo novel Snow Storms in Hot Climate (1988) a thriller about the early cocaine trade in Colombia *(1)

1989

Dunant started writing in her late twenties, first with a friend, with whom she produced two political thrillers and a six part BBC1 drama series Thin Air, broadcast in 1989, before going solo.

1990

In the 1990s she wrote a trilogy around a British female private eye Hannah Wolfe, spotlighting issues like surrogacy, cosmetic surgery, animal rights, and violence to women. Sexual violence was also at the centre of “Transgressions” (based on a mysterious series of incidents happening in her house*2) which tackled what might happen if a woman woke to an intruder in her house and live to tell the tale. The resulting furore over the actions of the heroine “caused the book to become a cause celebre which triggered a debate about rape and popular culture.*(3)

1994

Her crime novels were three times shortlisted for the CWA Golden dagger award, and in 1994 she won a silver dagger for Fatlands. (8*) In 2010 Sacred Hearts was shortlisted for the first ever Walter Scott Historical Fiction Prize, an award which highlighted the growing power and popularity of the form. (*9)

2000

In 2000, an extended visit to Florence changed her working life. In what she acknowledged was something of a midlife crisis * 4 Her old passion for history was reignited, a she started to research the impact of the renaissance on the city in the 1490’s. The result was The Birth of Venus, the first of a trilogy of novels about women’s lives in the Italian renaissance. The commercial success of these books in America and elsewhere (*5) allowed Dunant to devote herself full time to writing and research concentrating of the most current work being done in renaissance studies, most particularly concerning the lives of women. (*6) The novel Sacred Hearts, a story of nuns in an enclosed convent in 16th Ferrara led to collaboration with the early music group, Musica Secreta: a theatrical adaptation using the music of the period and with a choir, performed in churches and at early music festivals around Britain.

2016

In 2016 she was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters from Oxford Brookes University, where she is a guest lecturer on the Creative writing M.A. course.

2019

As a Journalist she has reviewed for all of the Uk’s papers, edited two books of Essays on Political Correctness and Millennium anxieties, and currently reviews for the New York Times.

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