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Dana Michelle Plato was born in Maywood, California, on Saturday, November 7, 1964. Dana made an impact on the TV screen when she landed the role of Kimberly Drummond in the TV hit sitcom Diff'rent Strokes (1978) from 1978-1986. After the series ended, Dana had difficulty finding more acting work. Sometimes she would act in a made-for-TV movie or a low- budget silver-screen film. She was married for Lanny Lambert for seven years and they had a son. Plato was arrested in 1991 for robbing a Las Vegas video store and placed on probation; the next year she was arrested again, this time for forging a Valium prescription. She had just finished an interview with Howard Stern in the spring of 1999 when she and her fiancé, Robert Menchaca, were headed back to California. She hoped the interview would revive her stalled career. They stopped at his parents' house in Moore, Oklahoma for a Mother's-Day-weekend visit; on Saturday, May 8, 1999, Dana died of what appeared to be an accidental overdose of the painkiller "Loritab". On May 21, a coroner's inquest ruled her death a suicide because of the large amount of drugs in her body and her history of past suicide attempts. She was 34 years old.
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- wc Gender: Female
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1964-11-07
- event Death Date 1999-05-08
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 3.7
- info Birth Place Maywood, California, USA
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Blade Boxer
1997-10-27
2.3
Insatiable Coeds
2000-01-01
4.2
Compelling Evidence
1995-01-01
8
Night Trap
2018-07-06
2.3
Bikini Beach Race
1992-01-01
3.6
Different Strokes
1998-06-25
2
Schoolboy Father
1980-10-15
0
Tiger
1997-01-01
4
Return to Boggy Creek
1977-07-29
0
Millenium Day
1995-01-01
5.8
California Suite
1978-12-15
6
Silent Fury
1994-01-01
6.9
Showbiz Kids
2020-07-14
3.8
Desperation Boulevard
1998-06-01
3.8
Desperation Boulevard
1998-06-01
0
Kraft Salutes Walt Disney World's 10th Anniversary
1982-01-21
4
Prime Suspect
1989-01-01
5.6
High School U.S.A.
1983-10-16
4.8
Beyond the Bermuda Triangle
1975-11-06
3.5
Distortions
1992-01-01
4.6
Exorcist II: The Heretic
1977-06-17
2
Pacino is Missing
2002-01-01
0
The Hostage
1998-01-01
4.5
Lethal Cowboy
1995-09-01
6
Gary
2024-08-28
6.5
Growing Pains
1985-09-24
6.8
CHiPs
1977-09-15
7.1
The Facts of Life
1979-08-24
7
Diff'rent Strokes
1978-11-03
8.1
E! True Hollywood Story
1996-08-21
7
Family
1976-03-09
7.2
The Six Million Dollar Man
1974-01-18
5
Hello, Larry
1979-01-26