
Loni Anderson
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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.
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Credits
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(archive footage)★ NR
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Lily Marlowe★ 8.2
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I Am Burt Reynolds 2020Self - Interviewee★ 6.9
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Valerie 2019Self★ 2
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Love You More 2017Jean★ 8.7
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Baby Daddy 2012Nana Lyle★ 7.1
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Self★ 7.8
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Annul Victory 2009Self★ NR
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Back to the Grind 2007★ NR
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Self★ NR
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So NoTORIous 2006Kiki Spelling★ 7.3
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Self★ 5
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The Mullets 2003★ 4
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Duck Dodgers 2003Herself (voice)★ 7.4
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Barbara Butabi★ 6.5
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V.I.P. 1998Carol Irons★ 5.3
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Medusa★ 4.8
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Racine★ 7.8
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Clueless 1996★ 6.2
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★ 8.1
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Martha★ 3
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Women of the House 1995Self★ 6
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Burke's Law 1994Claudia Loring★ 6.7
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Intimate Portrait 1993Self★ 4.5
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Melrose Place 1992Teri Carson★ 5.9
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Munchie 1992Cathy Dobson★ 3.8
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The Price She Paid 1992Lacey★ 4.5
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Nurses 1991Casey MacAfee★ 7
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★ 7
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Thelma Todd★ 6
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Leah Crawford★ 1
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Blown Away 1990Lauren★ NR
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Flo (voice)★ 6.8
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Blondie Bumstead (voice)★ NR
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Sorry, Wrong Number 1989Madeleine Stevenson★ 4.3
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B.L. Stryker 1989★ 6
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Too Good to Be True 1988Ellen Berent★ 3.3
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Whisper Kill 1988Liz Bartlett★ 7
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Necessity 1988Lauren LaSalle★ 4
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Blondie & Dagwood 1987Blondie Bumstead (voice)★ 10
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Stranded 1986Stacy Tweed★ 6
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Easy Street 1986★ 5.7
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Lora Mae Holloway★ 2
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Amazing Stories 1985Love★ 7.4
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Partners in Crime 1984Sydney Kovack★ 6.2
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Ellen Blake★ 7
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The Lonely Guy 1984Herself (uncredited)★ 6.3
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Stroker Ace 1983Pembrook Feeney★ 5
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Country Gold 1982Mollie Dean Purcell★ 6
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Night of 100 Stars 1982Self★ 6.7
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Self★ NR
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Magic with the Stars 1982Hostess★ NR
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Self★ 6
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Sizzle 1981Julie Davis★ NR
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Jayne Mansfield★ 5.9
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Host★ NR
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The Big Show 1980Self★ NR
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Self★ 6.3
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★ 7
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WKRP in Cincinnati 1978Jennifer Marlowe★ 7.5
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Three on a Date 1978Angela Ross★ 1
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The Incredible Hulk 1977Sheila Cantrell★ 7.2
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The Love Boat 1977Kitty Scofield★ 6.3
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Three's Company 1977★ 7.7
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★ 5
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Vigilante Force 1976Peaches (uncredited)★ 4.9
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The Invisible Man 1975Andrea Hanover★ 6.1
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S.W.A.T. 1975★ 7
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Police Woman 1974Waitress★ 6.2
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Harry O 1974★ 4.6
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Barnaby Jones 1973Joanna Morgan★ 6.9
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The Bob Newhart Show 1972Leslie Greely★ 7.5
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Nevada Smith 1966Brunette Saloon Girl (uncredited)★ 6.8