Person Details

Birthday: 1945-08-05 19:29:14

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Female

Place of birth: St. Paul, Minnesota, USA

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Movie Involvements: 22

TV Involvements: 8


Most Famous Work

Biography

 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.

Most Famous Work

Melrose Place
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6

Melrose Place

(1992) Teri Carson
Police Woman
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6

Police Woman

(1974) Waitress
Intimate Portrait
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5

Intimate Portrait

(1993) Self
The Incredible Hulk
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7

The Incredible Hulk

(1977) Sheila Cantrell
Burke's Law
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7

Burke's Law

(1994) Claudia Loring
Barnaby Jones
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7

Barnaby Jones

(1973) Joanna Morgan
I Love the '70s: Volume 2
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0
Partners in Crime
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6

Partners in Crime

(1984) Sydney Kovack

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2023 Lily Marlowe
2020 Self - Interviewee
2019 Self
2017 Jean
2012 Nana Lyle
Self
2009 Self - Guest
Self
2007 N/A
2006 Self
N/A
2005 Self
2003 N/A
Herself (voice)
1998 Barbara Butabi
Carol Irons
Medusa
1996 Racine
N/A
N/A
1995 Martha
Self
1994 Claudia Loring
1993 Self
1992 Teri Carson
Cathy Dobson
Lacey
1991 Casey MacAfee
N/A
Thelma Todd
1990 Leah Crawford
Lauren
1989 Flo (voice)
Blondie Bumstead (voice)
Madeleine Stevenson
N/A
1988 Ellen Berent
Liz Bartlett
Lauren LaSalle
1987 Blondie Bumstead (voice)
1986 Stacy Tweed
N/A
1985 Lora Mae Holloway
Love
1984 Sydney Kovack
Ellen Blake
Herself (uncredited)
1983 Pembrook Feeney
1982 Mollie Dean Purcell
Self
Hostess
1981 Self
Julie Davis
1980 Jayne Mansfield
Host
Self
N/A
1979 Self
1978 N/A
Jennifer Marlowe
Angela Ross
1977 Sheila Cantrell
Kitty Scofield
Barbie
Kim Holland / Doris Wilson
N/A
1976 N/A
Peaches (uncredited)
1975 N/A
1974 Waitress
N/A
1973 Joanna Morgan
1966 Brunette Saloon Girl (uncredited)
1962 Self
1950 Self
Actress
Year Character Movie/Tv

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