Dana Plato

Film & TV

Acting · Maywood, California, USA

Dana Michelle Plato (November 7, 1964 — May 8, 1999) was born in Maywood, California. 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…

Known for

• Hollywood Demons — Self (archive footage)2025
• Gary — Archive footage2024
• Pacino is Missing — Prosecuting Attorney2002
• Insatiable Coeds — Piano Teacher's Wife (archive footage) (uncredited)2000
• Different Strokes — Jill Martin1998
• Tiger — Andrea Baker1998
• Desperation Boulevard — Herself1998
• The Hostage — Leslie1998
• Blade Boxer1997
• E! True Hollywood Story1996

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

38

Total plays

347

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Welcome to the Tidyverse

   · 2019 · cited 20,393x

2. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,936x

3. The Sequence of the Human Genome

   · 2001 · cited 10,201x

4. The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans

   · 2020 · cited 9,162x

5. The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project

   · 2013 · cited 8,560x

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