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Dominique Dunne

1959 - 1982

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Dominique Ellen Dunne (November 23, 1959 – November 4, 1982) was an American actress. Born and raised in Santa Monica, California, she made her on-screen debut with the television film Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker (1979), and thereafter played the recurring roles of Erica on the drama series Family (1980), and Paulina Bornstein on the comedy series Breaking Away (1980–1981). Her breakthrough came with the starring role of Dana Freeling in the horror film Poltergeist (1982). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dominique Dunne has received more than 5,113,984 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Dominique Dunne is the 4,373rd most popular actor (up from 4,545th in 2019), the 6,419th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,780th in 2019) and the 1,963rd most popular American Actor.

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  • 48.36

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  • 25

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  • 2.63

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  • 3.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Dominique Dunne ranks 4,373 out of 13,578. Before her are Anne Shirley, Will Yun Lee, Stephen Moyer, Jack Coleman, Wagner Moura, and Julia Nickson. After her are Abbie Cornish, Rose Byrne, Moonbin, Alfredo Landa, Semyon Farada, and Alex O'Loughlin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Dominique Dunne ranks 234. Before her are Momoe Yamaguchi, Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, Sanjay Dutt, Steven Erikson, Erwin Olaf, and Glenn Hysén. After her are Marco Antonio Solís, Peter Molyneux, Janusz Kamiński, Ana Torroja, Victoire Tomegah Dogbé, and Iakoba Italeli. Among people deceased in 1982, Dominique Dunne ranks 187. Before her are Hendrik Wade Bode, Percy Williams, Eino Penttilä, Marie Rambert, BP Koirala, and Victor Buono. After her are Virginia Hall, Marie Braun, Hércules de Miranda, Victor Jory, Josef Bradl, and Hitoshi Sasaki.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dominique Dunne ranks 6,419 out of 20,380. Before her are Cordwainer Smith (1913), Jack Coleman (1958), Jakob Dylan (1969), Randy Brecker (1945), Leonard Warren (1911), and Rod Serling (1924). After her are Deirdre McCloskey (1942), James J. Jeffries (1875), Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806), Bob Bondurant (1933), Bill Sharman (1926), and Jay Miner (1932).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Dominique Dunne ranks 1,963. Before her are Eriq La Salle (1962), Mädchen Amick (1970), Victor Buono (1938), Anne Shirley (1918), Will Yun Lee (1971), and Jack Coleman (1958). After her are Diana Muldaur (1938), Bob Sapp (1973), Penelope Ann Miller (1964), Robert Preston (1918), Louise Lasser (1939), and Frank Silva (1950).

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Television and Movie Roles

Poltergeist
Dana Freeling
Upon realizing that something truly evil haunts his home, Steve Freeling calls in a team of parapsychologists to help before it's too late.
Jun 4o 19827.146 / 10
The Shadow Riders
Sissy Traven
After starring in "The Sacketts", Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott team up again but this time as Mac and Dal Traven, in a movie based on a classic Louis L'Amour novel. They are brothers, who meet up at the end of the Civil War fighting on opposite sides. They go home only to find their family in dire need and their sisters and brother kidnapped by ruthless raiders. They set out to rescue their family.
Sep 28o 19826.444 / 10
Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker
Cathy Robinson
A rebellious 17-year-old girl ignores parental advice and joins her friends as a beach-bound regular on the local hitchhiking circuit, being picked up, ultimately, by a homicidal maniac.
Sep 21o 19796.5 / 10