Lee Chamberlin is an American

United States

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 film and television actress.

Chamberlin was a regular performer during the first two years of the esteemed series The Electric Company

The Electric Company

The Electric Company is an educational American children's television series that was produced by the Children's Television Workshop for PBS in the United States. PBS broadcast 780 episodes over the course of its six seasons from October 25, 1971 to April 15, 1977...

, and she made guest appearances in the television series What's Happening!!

What's Happening!!

What's Happening!! is an American television sitcom that aired on ABC from August 5, 1976 to April 28, 1979. The show premiered as a summer series. With good ratings and reviews, and after the failure of several other shows on the network, What's Happening!! returned in November 1976 as a weekly...

Diff'rent Strokes

Diff'rent Strokes

Diff'rent Strokes is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC from November 3, 1978 to May 4, 1985, and on ABC from September 27, 1985 to March 7, 1986...

, and NYPD Blue

NYPD Blue

NYPD Blue is an American television police drama set in New York City, exploring the internal and external struggles of the fictional 15th precinct of Manhattan...

to list a few. In 1979, she played the wife of James Earl Jones

James Earl Jones

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' character on the short-lived police drama Paris

Paris (1979 TV series)

Paris was an American television series that appeared on the CBS television network from September 29, 1979 to January 15, 1980. A crime drama, the show is notable as the first-ever appearance of renowned actor James Earl Jones in a lead role on television and as the first program on which Steven...

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She had a prominent role in the film Uptown Saturday Night

Uptown Saturday Night

Uptown Saturday Night is a 1974 comedy film written by Richard Wesley, and directed by Sidney Poitier. Poitier also stars in this film, along with Bill Cosby and Harry Belafonte. Cosby and Poitier teamed up again for Let's Do It Again and A Piece of the Action...

, in which she portrayed the memorable Madame Zenobia. She also starred in the film Let's Do it Again

Let's Do It Again (1975 film)

Let's Do It Again is a 1975 film starring Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby and Jimmie Walker. Poitier also directed. The film is about blue-collar workers who decide to rig a boxing match to raise money for their fraternal lodge...

, the follow-up film to Uptown Saturday Night.

From 1982 through 1991, Chamberlain portrayed Pat Baxter, the mother of the popular character Angela Baxter Hubbard on the ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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 soap opera All My Children

All My Children

All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. The show features Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most...

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Lee is the daughter of centenarian author of “Age Less/Live More” and the world's oldest blog

Blog

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ger Bernando LaPallo

Bernando LaPallo

Bernando LaPallo is an American supercentenarian and author of “Age Less/Live More: Achieving Health and Vitality at 107 and Beyond.” At age 110, LaPallo is the world's oldest blogger...

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