Dana Plato - Celebrity

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NAME:	Dana Plato
PROFILE:	Name: Dana Plato Birth Name: Dana Michelle Plato Height: 5' 2'' Sex: F Nationality: American Birth Date: November 7, 1964 Birth Place: Maywood, California, USA Profession: actress Place of Death: Moore, Oklahoma, USA Death Date: May 8, 1999 Death Cause: suicide by overdose Husband/Wife: Lanny Lambert (married in April 1984; divorced in March 1990) Relationship: Robert Menchaca (fiancee) Mother: Linda Strain Step Father: Dean Plato Step Mother: Florine 'Kay' Plato (died from a blood disease in 1988) Son: Tyler Lambert (born in 1985) Claim to fame: as Kimberly Drummond in Different Strokes (1978) Contact: Click here
GOSSIP:	She was arrested in 1991 for robbing a video store in Las Vegas, but was placed on probation. The following year Dana was, again, arrested for forging a prescription for Valium. On May 21, a coroner's inquest ruled her death a suicide due to a large amount of drugs in her body and her history of past suicide attempts. She was 34 years old. Dana was offered the role of Regan MacNeil in THE EXORCIST (1973). Dana's biological mom was a teenager when she had her so she gave Dana up for adoption right after she was born. She said that she loved Canada. Was nominated Young Artist Award for Best Young Actress in a Comedy Series in 1984 for DIFFERENT STROKES and Best Young Actress in a Television Series in 1981 for the same movie. Her first major tv appearance was a part on a SIX-MILLION-DOLLAR MAN show which was the pilot episode for the tv series THE BIONIC WOMAN which starred Lindsay Wagner. Interests: ice skating, skiing, horseback riding, ballet dancing and sky diving Appeared in over 100 TV commercials starting age 7 including Kentucky Fried Chicken, Arco, Hallmark, and Dole. In one Dole commercial, she had to eat 82 bananas and got terribly sick. Was training in ice skating for the Olympics when she got the role of Kimberly on DIFF'RENT STROKES. She had to give up hope for the Olympics, but she still skated for fun. Hair color: blonde Eye color: blue-green Won the role of the daughter in the first Exorcist movie, but her mother wouldn't let her take it. She did have a small part in EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC. Got the role of Kimberly on DIFF'RENT STROKES after a producer spotted her on The Gong Show. Was reportedly paid as high as $22,000 per episode of DIFF'RENT STROKES. MORE DANA PLATO TRIVIA
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