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Birth Name: Adriana Coutsaimanis
Date of Birth: 9 January, 1956
Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date of Death: 7 June, 2010
Place of Death: Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia
Ethnicity: * father – Greek * mother – Spanish
Adriana Xenides was an Australian television presenter, model, actress, and children’s author. She was a co-host and letter-turner on the Australian Wheel of Fortune , from 1981 to 1999, holding the Guinness World Record for longest-running game show host for a time.
Adriana was born in Buenos Aires, to a Greek father and a Spanish mother, and moved to Australia as a child. She was a finalist at Mrs. South Australia in 1978. Her surname was from her first husband Michael Xenides.