Loni Anderson
Biografia
Loni Kaye Anderson (August 5, 1945 – August 3, 2025) was 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. She died at a Los Angeles hospital following a “prolonged” illness on August 3, 2025.
Filmografia
Filmy i seriale od najnowszych
Ladies of the '80s: A Divas Christmas
Film • 2023
jako Lily Marlowe
Burt Reynolds: Bandzior, piosenkarz, aktor
Film • 2020
jako Self - Interviewee
Valerie
Film • 2019
jako Self
Love You More
Serial • 2017
jako Jean
My Sister is So Gay
Serial • 2016
jako Frances
Baby Daddy
Serial • 2012
jako Nana Lyle
Carol Channing: Larger Than Life
Film • 2012
jako Self
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Serial • 2009
jako Self - Guest
Annul Victory
Film • 2009
jako Self
Back to the Grind
Serial • 2007
I Love the '70s: Volume 2
Serial • 2006
jako Self
So NoTORIous
Serial • 2006
jako Kiki Spelling
Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
Serial • 2005
jako Self
The Mullets
Serial • 2003
jako Mandi Mullet-Heidecker
Kaczor Dodgers
Serial • 2003
jako Herself (voice)
Odlotowy duet
Film • 1998
jako Barbara Butabi
V.I.P.
Serial • 1998
jako Carol Irons
Małolaty Ninja w lunaparku
Film • 1998
jako Medusa
Amazing Stories: The Movie III
Film • 1998
jako Love
Fast Track
Serial • 1997
Sabrina, nastoletnia czarownica
Serial • 1996
jako Racine
Słodkie zmartwienia
Serial • 1996
E! True Hollywood Story
Serial • 1996
Deadly Family Secrets
Film • 1995
jako Martha
Women of the House
Serial • 1995
jako Self
Burke's Law
Serial • 1994
jako Claudia Loring
Intimate Portrait
Serial • 1993
jako Self
Melrose Place
Serial • 1992
jako Teri Carson
Mój kumpel Munchie
Film • 1992
jako Cathy Dobson
The Price She Paid
Film • 1992
jako Lacey
A Party For Richard Pryor
Film • 1991
jako Self
Nurses
Serial • 1991
jako Casey MacAfee
The New WKRP in Cincinnati
Serial • 1991
White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd
Film • 1991
jako Thelma Todd
Coins in the Fountain
Film • 1990
jako Leah Crawford
Blown Away
Film • 1990
jako Lauren
Wszystkie psy idą do nieba
Film • 1989
jako Flo (voice)
Blondie & Dagwood: Second Wedding Workout
Film • 1989
jako Blondie Bumstead (voice)
Sorry, Wrong Number
Film • 1989
jako Madeleine Stevenson
B.L. Stryker
Serial • 1989
Too Good to Be True
Film • 1988
jako Ellen Berent
Whisper Kill
Film • 1988
jako Liz Bartlett
Necessity
Film • 1988
jako Lauren LaSalle
Blondie & Dagwood
Film • 1987
jako Blondie Bumstead (voice)
Stranded
Film • 1986
jako Stacy Tweed
Easy Street
Serial • 1986
A Letter to Three Wives
Film • 1985
jako Lora Mae Holloway
Amazing Stories
Serial • 1985
jako Love
Partners in Crime
Serial • 1984
jako Sydney Kovack
My Mother's Secret Life
Film • 1984
jako Ellen Blake
The Lonely Guy
Film • 1984
jako Herself (uncredited)
Przebicie asem
Film • 1983
jako Pembrook Feeney
Country Gold
Film • 1982
jako Mollie Dean Purcell
Night of 100 Stars
Film • 1982
jako Self
Women I Love: Beautiful But Funny
Film • 1982
jako Self
Magic with the Stars
Film • 1982
jako Self - Host
All-Star Party for Burt Reynolds
Film • 1981
jako Self
Sizzle
Film • 1981
jako Julie Davis
The Jayne Mansfield Story
Film • 1980
jako Jayne Mansfield
The Fantastic Funnies
Film • 1980
jako Host
The Big Show
Serial • 1980
jako Self
Siegfried and Roy - Superstars Of Magic
Serial • 1980
jako Self
The Muppets Go Hollywood
Film • 1979
jako Self (uncredited)
The Magic of David Copperfield
Serial • 1978
WKRP in Cincinnati
Serial • 1978
jako Jennifer Marlowe
Three on a Date
Film • 1978
jako Angela Ross
The Incredible Hulk
Serial • 1977
jako Sheila Cantrell
The Love Boat
Serial • 1977
jako Kitty Scofield
Three's Company
Serial • 1977
The McLean Stevenson Show
Serial • 1976
Mściciel
Film • 1976
jako Peaches (uncredited)
The Invisible Man
Serial • 1975
jako Andrea Hanover
S.W.A.T.
Serial • 1975
Police Woman
Serial • 1974
jako Waitress
Harry O
Serial • 1974
Barnaby Jones
Serial • 1973
jako Joanna Morgan
The Bob Newhart Show
Serial • 1972
jako Leslie Greely
Nevada Smith
Film • 1966
jako Brunette Saloon Girl (uncredited)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Serial • 1962
jako Self
The Bob Hope Show
Serial • 1950
jako Self
Golden Globe Awards
Serial • 1944
jako Self - Nominee