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Paula Deen

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Paula Deen
Born in Albany, Georgia, Deen is a notable graduate of Albany High School. She married her first husband after graduating high school in 1965. Her parents both died by the time she was 23, and a resultant fear of death led to chronic agoraphobia. She was a proficient Southern cook, and used it to help deal with her condition. in 1986, she felt okay enough to take a job as a bank teller. She was robbed at gunpoint the next year, and that incident led her to deal with her agoraphobia head-on. After the family moved to Savannah in 1989, she decided to parlay her cooking experience into a clandestine catering service. She made sandwiches and other meals, and her sons delivered them.
BornJanuary 19, 1947
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    • 2 wins & 4 nominations

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Paula Deen and Brigitte Nguyen in Paula's Best Dishes (2008)
Paula Deen and Deidre Pujols in Paula's Best Dishes (2008)
Paula Deen in Paula's Best Dishes (2008)
Paula Deen, Emma Feigenbaum, and Zoe Feigenbaum in Paula's Best Dishes (2008)
Paula Deen in Paula's Best Dishes (2008)
Paula Deen and Mitchell Pennell in Paula's Best Dishes (2008)
Paula Deen and Jamie Deen in Paula's Best Dishes (2008)
Paula Deen in Paula's Best Dishes (2008)
Paula Deen in Paula's Best Dishes (2008)
Paula Deen in Paula's Best Dishes (2008)
Paula Deen and Katy Mixon in Paula's Best Dishes (2008)
Paula Deen and Bobby Deen in Paula's Best Dishes (2008)

Known for

Kirsten Dunst and Orlando Bloom in Elizabethtown (2005)
Elizabethtown
6.3
  • Aunt Dora
  • 2005
Paula's Home Cooking (2002)
Paula's Home Cooking
6.1
TV Series
  • Self - Host
  • Self - Hostess
  • Self
Paula Deen in Paula's Best Dishes (2008)
Paula's Best Dishes
5.8
TV Series
  • Self - Hostess
  • Self - Host
  • Self
Paula Deen Cuts the Fat Cookbook Launch
Video
  • Paula Deen
  • 2015

Credits

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Producer

  • Paula Deen in Positively Paula (2016)
    Positively Paula
    • executive producer
    • TV Series
    • 2016–2017

Actress

  • Paula Deen Cuts the Fat Cookbook Launch
    • Paula Deen
    • Video
    • 2015
  • Kirsten Dunst and Orlando Bloom in Elizabethtown (2005)
    Elizabethtown
    • Aunt Dora
    • 2005

Personal details

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  • Height
    • 5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
  • Born
    • January 19, 1947
    • Albany, Georgia, USA
  • Spouses
      Michael Anthony GrooverMarch 6, 2004 - present
  • Children
      Bobby Deen
  • Parents
      Corrie A. Paul
  • Relatives
    • Earl Hiers(Sibling)
  • Other works
    Print ads for Smithfield Packing Company's "Cookin With Smithfield" recipe contest (2008).
  • Publicity listings
    • 3 Interviews
    • 9 Articles
    • 9 Magazine Cover Photos

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  • Trivia
    Owns the "Lady and Sons" restaurant in downtown Savannah with her two sons, Bobby Deen and Jamie Deen.

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