Loni Anderson
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 Loni Anderson and Burt Reynolds at the 43rd Emmy Awards (1991; photo by Alan Light) |
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| Born | Loni Kaye Anderson August 5, 1945 Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States |
Loni Kaye Anderson (born August 5, 1945) is an American actress, best known for her role as Jennifer Marlowe on the television sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati and as a former wife of Burt Reynolds (from 1988 to 1993). Her divorce from Reynolds was a bitter, well-publicized debacle.
Anderson was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota to Carl K. Anderson and Maxine H. Kallin. As she tells it 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".
Shortly after her divorce from Reynolds, she appeared as a regular in the final season (1993–1994) on the NBC sitcom Nurses.
Her 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.
Anderson has also been in various movies. She portrayed Jayne Mansfield in a made-for-TV biopic about her along with Arnold Schwarzenegger. She teamed with Lynda Carter in the 1984 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 two children: a daughter, Deidra Hoffman (from an earlier marriage), who is a school principal in Anderson, California,[citation needed] and a son, Quinton Reynolds, whom she and Burt Reynolds adopted.[1]
On May 17, 2008, Anderson married Bob Flick, one of the founding members of the folk band The Brothers Four.[2] 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.
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[edit] Selected filmography
- Vigilante Force (1976)
- Stroker Ace (1983)
- The Lonely Guy (1984)
- All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989) (voice)
- Coins in the Fountain (1990))
- 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain (1998)
- A Night at the Roxbury (1998)
[edit] Notable television work
- WKRP in Cincinnati (1978-1982)
- Three's Company, "Coffee, Tea, or Jack" [2.25], May 16, 1978 (playing "Susan Wallace")
- Partners in Crime (1984)
- A Letter to Three Wives (1985)
- Easy Street (1986)
- Blondie and Dagwood (1987) (voice)
- Too Good to Be True (1988)
- Sorry, Wrong Number (1989)
- Nurses (cast member from 1993-1994)
- Without Warning (1994)
- The Mullets (2003-2004)
- So NoTORIous
[edit] References
- ^ "Deidre Hall's Miracle", The American Surrogacy Center, Inc., 1996, retrieved September 7, 2006
- ^ "Loni Anderson marries folk singer Bob Flick 15 years after divorce from Burt Reynolds", Star Tribune, 18 May 2008. Retrieved on 2008-05-18.
