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6 feet 2 inches. “She's 6 feet 2 inches of Dynamite!” Long-legged, kung fu-kicking temptress Tamara Dobson is Special Agent Cleo Jones, out to rid the ghetto of dope-dealing queenpin “Mommy” (Shelley Winters), in this hit merging of the Blaxploitation and Chopsocky genres.);})();(function(){window.jsl.dh(077FZu3LHqyG0PEP8tf2mAs__54,
The film stars Elizabeth Taylor in the eponymous role, along with Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Roddy McDowall and Martin Landau. It chronicles the struggles of the young queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome.
Tamara Dobson — the Baltimore-born model-turned-actress best known for her leading role in two films as kung-fu-fighting government superagent Cleopatra Jones — died here Monday from complications of pneumonia and multiple sclerosis. She was 59. She was diagnosed six years ago with multiple sclerosis.
She died on October 2, 2006, at Keswick Multi-Care Center in Baltimore, Maryland, of complications from pneumonia and multiple sclerosis, at age 59. Dobson never married or had children.
After burying him, the 39-year-old Cleopatra took her own life, though how is uncertain. Some claim it was by means of an asp, the symbol of divine royalty.