About

Known credits:
47
Birthday:
1945-08-05
Place of birth:
Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
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Loni Anderson

Overview

 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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.

Known for

Acting

2023 Ladies of the '80s: A Divas Christmas Actor Lily Marlowe 59
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2020 I Am Burt Reynolds Actor Self - Interviewee 59
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2019 Valerie Actor Self 58
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2017 Love You More Actor Jean 70
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2012 Carol Channing: Larger Than Life Actor Self 59
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2009 Annul Victory Actor Self N/A
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2006 So NoTORIous Actor Kiki Spelling 69
Fair
2003 The Mullets Actor 69
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1998 A Night at the Roxbury Actor Barbara Butabi 63
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1998 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain Actor Medusa 56
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1995 Deadly Family Secrets Actor Martha 59
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1992 Munchie Actor Cathy Dobson 57
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1992 The Price She Paid Actor Lacey 58
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1991 Nurses Actor Casey MacAfee 70
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1991 White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd Actor Thelma Todd 58
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1990 Coins in the Fountain Actor Leah Crawford 58
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1990 Blown Away Actor Lauren N/A
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1989 All Dogs Go to Heaven Actor Flo (voice) 65
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1989 Blondie & Dagwood: Second Wedding Workout Actor Blondie Bumstead (voice) N/A
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1989 Sorry, Wrong Number Actor Madeleine Stevenson 59
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1988 Too Good to Be True Actor Ellen Berent 58
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1988 Whisper Kill Actor Liz Bartlett 59
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1988 Necessity Actor Lauren LaSalle 58
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1987 Blondie & Dagwood Actor Blondie Bumstead (voice) 59
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1986 Stranded Actor Stacy Tweed N/A
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1986 Easy Street Actor 69
Fair
1985 A Letter to Three Wives Actor Lora Mae Holloway 58
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1984 Partners In Crime Actor Sydney Kovak N/A
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1984 Partners in Crime Actor Sydney Kovack 68
Fair
1984 My Mother's Secret Life Actor Ellen Blake 59
Average
1984 The Lonely Guy Actor Herself (uncredited) 59
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1983 Stroker Ace Actor Pembrook Feeney 58
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1982 Country Gold Actor Mollie Dean Purcell 59
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1982 Night of 100 Stars Actor Self 58
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1982 Women I Love: Beautiful But Funny Actor Self N/A
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1982 Magic with the Stars Actor Hostess N/A
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1981 All-Star Party for Burt Reynolds Actor Self N/A
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1981 Sizzle Actor Julie Davis N/A
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1980 The Jayne Mansfield Story Actor Jayne Mansfield 59
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1980 The Fantastic Funnies Actor Host N/A
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1979 The Muppets Go Hollywood Actor Self 59
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1978 WKRP in Cincinnati Actor Jennifer Marlowe 72
Good
1978 Three on a Date Actor Angela Ross 58
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1976 Vigilante Force Actor Peaches (uncredited) 58
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1967 The Black Slipper Actor N/A
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1966 Nevada Smith Actor Brunette Saloon Girl (uncredited) 61
Fair
Amazing Stories: The Movie III Actor (archive footage) N/A
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