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Dana Michelle Plato
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 (8 years ago, aged 39)

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Dana Plato was an American actress who became famous playing the role of Kimberly Drummond in the U.S. television sitcom Diff'rent Strokes.

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  • 1978
    played Kimberley in Diff'rent Strokes
    5 !
  • 1984
    fell pregnant to her boyfriend, a musician named Lanny Lambert
    -1 !
  • 1984
    fired from Diff'rent Strokes due to pregnancy, amid rumours of drug use and other "problems on the set"
    -3 !
  • 1989
    had breast implants and appeared in a Playboy pictorial
    2 !
  • 1991
    held up a convenience store with a pellet gun in Las Vegas and was arrested minutes later
    -3 !
  • 1992
    arrested for forging a prescription for Valium
    -3 !
  • 1992
    starred in video game Night Trap, which was universally panned by critics
    -1 !
  • 1994
    had more surgery to further enhance her breasts, hoping to land more significant film roles
    1 !
  • 1994
    acquired several tattoos
    0 !
  • 1995
    appeared in Compelling Evidence, to appalling reviews
    -2 !
  • 1997
    appeared in softcore pornography film Different Strokes: The Story of Jack and Jill...and Jill
    1 !
  • 1998
    appeared on the cover of the lesbian lifestyle magazine, Girlfriends
    1 !
  • 1999
    May 8: died in a car outside her mother's house, of an overdose from Vanadom (Soma) and Vicodin
    -7 !

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