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Loni Kaye Anderson (born August 5, 1945) is an American actress who played the role of Jennifer Marlowe on the television sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati.
Anderson was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, August 5, 1945, the daughter of Maxine Hazel (née Kallin), a model, and Klaydon Carl "Andy" Anderson, an environmental chemist and grew up in suburban Roseville.
As a senior at Alexander Ramsey Senior High School in Roseville in 1963, she was voted Valentine Queen of Valentine's Day Winter Formal. She attended the University of Minnesota. As she says in her autobiography, My Life in High Heels, her father was originally going to name her "Leiloni," but then realized to his horror that when she got to her teen years it was liable to be twisted into "Lay Loni." So it was changed to just plain "Loni."
Anderson's most famous acting role came as receptionist Jennifer Marlowe on WKRP in Cincinnati. Her pinup photo in a bikini became one of the best-selling wall posters of the 1970s. She and husband Burt Reynolds made one film together, the 1983 stock-car racing comedy Stroker Ace, a huge box-office failure. Shortly after her divorce from Reynolds, she appeared as a regular in the final season (1993–1994) on the NBC sitcom Nurses. Anderson portrayed actress Jayne Mansfield in a made-for-TV biopic with Arnold Schwarzenegger as her husband, Mickey Hargitay. She teamed with Lynda Carter in a 1984 television series, Partners in Crime. Anderson made a series of cameo appearances on television shows in the late 1990s and early 2000s, such as the Spellmans' "witch-trash" cousin on Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and Vallery Irons' mother on V.I.P. Anderson has been married four times; her first three marriages were to: Bruce Hasselberg (1964–1966), Ross Bickell (1973–1981), and actor (and one-time co-star) Burt Reynolds (1988–1993). On May 17, 2008, Anderson married musician Bob Flick, one of the founding members of the folk band The Brothers Four. The couple had met at a movie premiere in Anderson's native Minneapolis a few years after Flick's group hit No. 2 on the pop charts with "Greenfields" in 1960. The ceremony was attended by friends and family, including son Quinton Reynolds. She has two children: a daughter, Deidra Hoffman (from her first marriage), who is a school administrator in California; and a son, Quinton Anderson Reynolds (born August 31, 1988), whom she and Burt Reynolds adopted. Her autobiography, My Life in High Heels, was published in 1997. Anderson is currently a practicing Lutheran. Description above from the Wikipedia article Loni Anderson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
all 77
Movies 40
TV Shows 37
self 21
Ladies of the '80s: A Divas Christmas (2023)
I Am Burt Reynolds (2020)
My Sister is So Gay (2019)
Valerie (2019)
Love You More (2017)
Baby Daddy (2012)
Carol Channing: Larger Than Life (2012)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (2009)
Forever Plaid (2009)
Annul Victory (2009)
Back to the Grind (2007)
I Love the '70s: Volume 2 (2006)
So NoTORIous (2006)
Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List (2005)
CBS at 75 (2003)
The Mullets (2003)
Duck Dodgers (2003)
A Night at the Roxbury (1998)
V.I.P. (1998)
3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain (1998)
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (1996)
Clueless (1996)
E! True Hollywood Story (1996)
Deadly Family Secrets (1995)
Women of the House (1995)
Burke's Law (1994)
Bob Hope's Bag Full of Christmas Memories (1993)
Intimate Portrait (1993)
Melrose Place (1992)
Munchie (1992)
The Price She Paid (1992)
Nurses (1991)
The New WKRP in Cincinnati (1991)
White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd (1991)
Coins in the Fountain (1990)
Blown Away (1990)
All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)
Blondie & Dagwood: Second Wedding Workout (1989)
Sorry, Wrong Number (1989)
B.L. Stryker (1989)
Too Good to Be True (1988)
Whisper Kill (1988)
Necessity (1988)
Blondie & Dagwood (1987)
Stranded (1986)
Easy Street (1986)
A Letter to Three Wives (1985)
Amazing Stories (1985)
Partners in Crime (1984)
My Mother's Secret Life (1984)
The Lonely Guy (1984)
Stroker Ace (1983)
Country Gold (1982)
Night of 100 Stars (1982)
Magic with the Stars (1982)
All-Star Party for Burt Reynolds (1981)
Sizzle (1981)
The Jayne Mansfield Story (1980)
The Fantastic Funnies (1980)
The Big Show (1980)
Siegfried and Roy - Superstars Of Magic (1980)
The Muppets Go Hollywood (1979)
The Magic of David Copperfield (1978)
WKRP in Cincinnati (1978)
Three on a Date (1978)
The Incredible Hulk (1977)
The Love Boat (1977)
The Magnificent Magical Magnet of Santa Mesa (1977)
Three's Company (1977)
The McLean Stevenson Show (1976)
Vigilante Force (1976)
S.W.A.T. (1975)
Harry O (1974)
Barnaby Jones (1973)
Nevada Smith (1966)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962)
The Bob Hope Show (1950)
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1945-08-05 (78 years old)
Birth PlaceSaint Paul, United States of America
ReligionLutheranism
RelationshipsBurt Reynolds (1988-04-29 - 1993-01-01)
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsLoni Kaye Anderson
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