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Loni Anderson

 
Actor: Loni Anderson
 
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  • Born: Aug 05, 1946 in St. Paul, Minnesota
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '70s-'90s
  • Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
  • Career Highlights: All Dogs Go to Heaven, WKRP in Cincinnati, The Gambler V: Playing for Keeps
  • First Major Screen Credit: WKRP in Cincinnati (1978)

Biography

Loni Anderson's first acting appearance, at age 10, was in the auditorium of her St. Paul grammar school. An art student at the University of Minnesota, Loni worked her way through her freshman year by winning beauty contests. Married and divorced at 18, Loni was compelled to take a teaching job to support herself and her infant daughter, but she was able to eventually complete her college education. Still a brunette in the early stages of her professional career, Loni acted in Midwestern repertory companies and TV commercials before coming to Hollywood with her second husband in 1975. Three years later, a newly blonde Loni was cast as "look but don't touch" radio station receptionist Jennifer Marlowe on the popular sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati. After the series' cancellation in 1982, Loni appeared in films and starred in two subsequent series, Partners in Crime (1984) and Easy Street (1986), as well as a syndicated WKRP revival in 1990. One of the uncrowned queens of the TV movies, Loni has starred in the made-for-television biopics of Jayne Mansfield and Thelma Todd, and through the auspices of her own production company appeared in TV remakes of Leave Her to Heaven and Sorry Wrong Number. Loni Anderson's most recent husband was film superstar Burt Reynolds, whom she met on the set of Stroker Ace (1983); after several months of well-publicized courtroom histrionics (most stemming from a custody battle over their adopted son), Loni and Burt's marriage came to a comparatively swift and silent end in 1994. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Loni Anderson

at the 43rd Emmy Awards (1991)
Born Loni Kaye Anderson
August 5, 1946 (1946-08-05) (age 62)
Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
Occupation Actress
Years active 1975–present
Spouse(s) Bruce Hasselberg (1964–1966)
Ross Bickell (1973–1981)
Burt Reynolds (1988–93)
Bob Flick (2008–present)

Loni Kaye Anderson (born August 5, 1946) 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 1988–93). Her divorce from Reynolds was a bitter, well-publicized debacle.

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Early life

Anderson was born in St. Paul, Minnesota to Carl K. Anderson and Maxine H. Kallin. 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".

Acting

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.

Shortly after her divorce from Reynolds, she appeared as a regular in the final season (1993–1994) on the NBC sitcom Nurses.

Anderson has been in various movies. She portrayed Jayne Mansfield in a made-for-TV biopic 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..

Personal life

Anderson has two children: a daughter, Deidra Hoffman[1] (from her first marriage),[2] who is a school administrator in California;[3] and a son, Quinton Anderson Reynolds (born August 31, 1988), whom she and Burt Reynolds adopted.[4][5]

On May 17, 2008, Anderson married Bob Flick, one of the founding members of the folk band The Brothers Four.[6] 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.

Selected filmography

Selected television work

References

  1. ^ Dougherty, Margot; Linda Marx, Victoria Balfour, Lois Armstrong (1988-05-16). "Burt & Loni's Wedding Album". People. Time Inc. http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20098964,00.html. Retrieved on 2008-06-28. 
  2. ^ Schindehette, Susan (1993-09-13). "What a Mess!". People. Time Inc. http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20106248,00.html. Retrieved on 2008-06-28. 
  3. ^ Lipton, Michael A. (2003-09-15). "Red-Hot Grandmama". People. Time Inc. http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20141062,00.html. Retrieved on 2008-06-28. 
  4. ^ "Deidre Hall's Miracle." The American Surrogacy Center, Inc., 1996, retrieved September 7, 2006
  5. ^ BURT AND LONI, AND BABY MAKES GLEE (The Philadelphia Inquirer - September 3, 1988)
  6. ^ "Loni Anderson marries folk singer Bob Flick 15 years after divorce from Burt Reynolds". Star Tribune. 2008-05-18. 

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