Loni Anderson
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
Credits
- 2023 · Ladies of the '80s: A Divas Christmas as Lily Marlowe
- 2020 · I Am Burt Reynolds as Self - Interviewee
- 2019 · Valerie as Self
- 2017 · Love You More as Jean
- 2012 · Baby Daddy as Nana Lyle
- 2012 · Carol Channing: Larger Than Life as Self
- 2009 · Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
- 2009 · Annul Victory as Self
- 2007 · Back to the Grind as
- 2006 · I Love the '70s: Volume 2 as Self
- 2006 · So NoTORIous as Kiki Spelling
- 2005 · Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List as Self
- 2003 · The Mullets as
- 2003 · Duck Dodgers as Herself (voice)
- 1998 · A Night at the Roxbury as Barbara Butabi
- 1998 · V.I.P. as Carol Irons
- 1998 · 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain as Medusa
- 1996 · Sabrina, the Teenage Witch as Racine
- 1996 · Clueless as
- 1996 · E! True Hollywood Story as
- 1995 · Deadly Family Secrets as Martha
- 1995 · Women of the House as Self
- 1994 · Burke's Law as Claudia Loring
- 1993 · Intimate Portrait as Self
- 1992 · Melrose Place as Teri Carson
- 1992 · Munchie as Cathy Dobson
- 1992 · The Price She Paid as Lacey
- 1991 · Nurses as Casey MacAfee
- 1991 · The New WKRP in Cincinnati as
- 1991 · White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd as Thelma Todd
- 1990 · Coins in the Fountain as Leah Crawford
- 1990 · Blown Away as Lauren
- 1989 · All Dogs Go to Heaven as Flo (voice)
- 1989 · Blondie & Dagwood: Second Wedding Workout as Blondie Bumstead (voice)
- 1989 · Sorry, Wrong Number as Madeleine Stevenson
- 1989 · B.L. Stryker as
- 1988 · Too Good to Be True as Ellen Berent
- 1988 · Whisper Kill as Liz Bartlett
- 1988 · Necessity as Lauren LaSalle
- 1987 · Blondie & Dagwood as Blondie Bumstead (voice)
- 1986 · Stranded as Stacy Tweed
- 1986 · Easy Street as
- 1985 · A Letter to Three Wives as Lora Mae Holloway
- 1985 · Amazing Stories as Love
- 1984 · Partners in Crime as Sydney Kovack
- 1984 · My Mother's Secret Life as Ellen Blake
- 1984 · The Lonely Guy as Herself (uncredited)
- 1983 · Stroker Ace as Pembrook Feeney
- 1982 · Country Gold as Mollie Dean Purcell
- 1982 · Night of 100 Stars as Self
- 1982 · Women I Love: Beautiful But Funny as Self
- 1982 · Magic with the Stars as Hostess
- 1981 · All-Star Party for Burt Reynolds as Self
- 1981 · Sizzle as Julie Davis
- 1980 · The Jayne Mansfield Story as Jayne Mansfield
- 1980 · The Fantastic Funnies as Host
- 1980 · The Big Show as Self
- 1980 · Siegfried and Roy - Superstars Of Magic as
- 1979 · The Muppets Go Hollywood as Self
- 1978 · The Magic of David Copperfield as
- 1978 · WKRP in Cincinnati as Jennifer Marlowe
- 1978 · Three on a Date as Angela Ross
- 1977 · The Incredible Hulk as Sheila Cantrell
- 1977 · The Love Boat as Kitty Scofield
- 1977 · The Love Boat as Barbie
- 1977 · The Love Boat as Kim Holland / Doris Wilson
- 1977 · Three's Company as
- 1976 · The McLean Stevenson Show as
- 1976 · Vigilante Force as Peaches (uncredited)
- 1975 · The Invisible Man as Andrea Hanover
- 1975 · S.W.A.T. as
- 1974 · Police Woman as Waitress
- 1974 · Harry O as
- 1973 · Barnaby Jones as Joanna Morgan
- 1966 · Nevada Smith as Brunette Saloon Girl (uncredited)
- 1962 · The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- 1950 · The Bob Hope Show as Self
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
- Future · Amazing Stories: The Movie III as (archive footage)