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Loni Anderson

Loni Anderson

Actor · 1945 – 2025 · Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA

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.

Series24

  • TV7.5
  • TV4.9
  • TV6.3

    The Love Boat

    1977 · 199 votes

  • TV7.0

    Golden Globe Awards

    1944 · 20 votes

  • TV5.8

    Melrose Place

    1992 · 191 votes

  • TV7.8

    Sabrina, the Teenage Witch

    1996 · 1.3K votes

  • TV5.3

    V.I.P.

    1998 · 70 votes

  • TV4.5

    Intimate Portrait

    1993 · 5 votes

  • TV6.4

    Police Woman

    1974 · 33 votes

  • TV7.2

    The Incredible Hulk

    1977 · 514 votes

  • TV7.6

    Three's Company

    1977 · 196 votes

  • TV7.1

    Baby Daddy

    2012 · 216 votes

  • TV7.1

    Barnaby Jones

    1973 · 31 votes

  • TV7.0

    The Bob Hope Show

    1950 · 5 votes

  • TV7.5

    Amazing Stories

    1985 · 237 votes

  • TV7.5

    The Bob Newhart Show

    1972 · 66 votes

  • TV7.5

    Duck Dodgers

    2003 · 142 votes

  • TV5.2

    Harry O

    1974 · 12 votes

  • TV6.8

    Burke's Law

    1994 · 4 votes

  • TV6.4

    Clueless

    1996 · 43 votes

  • TV7.6

    WKRP in Cincinnati

    1978 · 98 votes

  • TV5.3
  • TV7.1

    Nurses

    1991 · 7 votes

  • TV7.0

Movies23

  • Movie6.8

    All Dogs Go to Heaven

    1989 · 1.2K votes

  • Movie6.5

    A Night at the Roxbury

    1998 · 1K votes

  • Movie6.2

    The Lonely Guy

    1984 · 157 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Nevada Smith

    1966 · 197 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Night of 100 Stars

    1982 · 5 votes

  • Movie6.2

    The Muppets Go Hollywood

    1979 · 26 votes

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  • Movie6.0
  • Movie6.9

    I Am Burt Reynolds

    2020 · 13 votes

  • Movie5.0

    Vigilante Force

    1976 · 20 votes

  • Movie4.1

    Munchie

    1992 · 33 votes

  • Movie4.8

    Stroker Ace

    1983 · 64 votes

  • Movie7.3
  • Movie5.0

    Too Good to Be True

    1988 · 4 votes

  • Movie8.0

    Stranded

    1986 · 2 votes

  • Movie3.3

    Three on a Date

    1978 · 3 votes

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  • Movie9.0

    Magic with the Stars

    1982 · 1 votes

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  • Movie8.0
  • Movie7.5
  • Movie7.8
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