ACTOR

Paula Deen

1947 - Today

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Paula Ann Hiers Deen (born January 19, 1947) is an American chef, cookbook author, and TV personality. Deen resides in Savannah, Georgia, where she owns and operates The Lady & Sons restaurant with her sons, Jamie and Bobby Deen. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paula Deen has received more than 4,008,757 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Paula Deen is the 10,128th most popular actor (down from 9,214th in 2019), the 14,759th most popular biography from United States (down from 13,429th in 2019) and the 4,751st most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 36.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Paula Deen ranks 10,128 out of 13,578. Before her are Brandon T. Jackson, Patrick Breen, Lauren Lee Smith, Sarah Parish, Irene Hervey, and Jeffrey Lynn. After her are Gordon MacRae, Larisa Oleynik, Luke Mitchell, Mike Henry, Will Pan, and Nawazuddin Siddiqui.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Paula Deen ranks 865. Before her are Judith Heumann, Federico Peña, John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan, Christine Gregoire, Ian O'Brien, and Mona Marshall. After her are Andrew Card, Sandra Chick, Eliot Engel, Ginny Duenkel, Roy Moore, and Dave Barry.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Paula Deen ranks 14,759 out of 20,380. Before her are Jamie-Lynn Sigler (1981), Amanda Wyss (1960), Brandon T. Jackson (1984), Patrick Breen (1960), Irene Hervey (1909), and Jeffrey Lynn (1909). After her are Charles L. Bennett (1956), Gordon MacRae (1921), Larisa Oleynik (1981), A. C. Green (1963), Mike Henry (1965), and Will Pan (1980).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Paula Deen ranks 4,751. Before her are Jamie-Lynn Sigler (1981), Amanda Wyss (1960), Brandon T. Jackson (1984), Patrick Breen (1960), Irene Hervey (1909), and Jeffrey Lynn (1909). After her are Gordon MacRae (1921), Larisa Oleynik (1981), Mike Henry (1965), Will Pan (1980), Ken Olin (1954), and Ken Marino (1968).

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Television and Movie Roles

Elizabethtown
Aunt Dora
Drew Baylor is fired after causing his shoe company to lose hundreds of millions of dollars. To make matters worse, he's also dumped by his girlfriend. On the verge of ending it all, Drew gets a new lease on life when he returns to his family's small Kentucky hometown after his father dies. Along the way, he meets a flight attendant with whom he falls in love.
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Paula's Home Cooking
Self
Paula's Home Cooking is a Food Network show hosted by Paula Deen. Deen's primary culinary focus was Southern cuisine and familiar comfort food that is popular with Americans. In the show, classic dishes such as pot roast, fried okra, fried chicken, and pecan pie were the norm, and overly complicated or eccentric recipes were usually eschewed. Dishes that are flavorful and familiar were spotlighted, although the fat content and calorie count of the meals were often very high. Paula also showed off vignettes of Savannah, Georgia, where she co-owns with her sons Jamie and Bobby, The Lady & Sons. Deen's popularity, spurred by the show, led to a small role in the feature film Elizabethtown.
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Paula's Party
Paula's Party is a show on the Food Network hosted by Paula Deen. Unlike her other show on the Food Network, Paula's Home Cooking, Paula's Party was originally taped in front of a small audience at Uncle Bubba's Oyster House in Savannah, Georgia, and Deen herself frequently interacts with members. In 2008, taping of the show moved from Savannah to Food Network studios in New York City. In the program, Deen offers help to audience members who have culinary problems. This new format allows her to be friendly with her guests; frequently she sits on the laps of various male audience members and feeds them sensuously, often making food-related double entendres. Almost all of Paula's family have appeared on the show: sons Jamie Deen and Bobby Deen, husband Michael Groover, daughter-in-law Brooke Deen, grandson Jack Deen, brother Bubba Hiers, and ex-husband Jimmy Deen. Paula's Party was first broadcast on September 29, 2006, and is currently broadcast on Saturdays at 7:00 PM Eastern Time on the Food Network. On June 21, 2013, the Food Network announced that they would not renew Deen's contract due to controversy surrounding Deen's use of a racial slur and racist jokes in her restaurant, effectively cancelling the series.
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