
Loni Anderson
Known for ActingBorn 1945-08-05Died 2025-08-03Saint 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.Read more
Movies & web series
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Blondie & Dagwood
1987 · Movie
Women I Love: Beautiful But Funny
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Women I Love: Beautiful But Funny
1982 · Movie
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Sizzle
1981 · Movie
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Blown Away
1990 · Movie
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Love You More
2017 · Series
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Magic with the Stars
1982 · Movie
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The Big Show
1980 · Series
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E! True Hollywood Story
1996 · Series
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Carol Channing: Larger Than Life
2012 · Movie
Stranded
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Stranded
1986 · Movie
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My Mother's Secret Life
1984 · Movie
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Country Gold
1982 · Movie
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So NoTORIous
2006 · Series
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Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
1996 · Series
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Ladies of the '80s: A Divas Christmas
2023 · Movie
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The New WKRP in Cincinnati
1991 · Series
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Duck Dodgers
2003 · Series
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White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd
1991 · Movie
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Three's Company
1977 · Series
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WKRP in Cincinnati
1978 · Series
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Amazing Stories
1985 · Series
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I Am Burt Reynolds
2020 · Movie
The McLean Stevenson Show
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The McLean Stevenson Show
1976 · Series
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The Bob Newhart Show
1972 · Series
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Baby Daddy
2012 · Series
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Series
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Whisper Kill
1988 · Movie
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Nurses
1991 · Series
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The Incredible Hulk
1977 · Series
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S.W.A.T.
1975 · Series
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Siegfried and Roy - Superstars Of Magic
1980 · Series
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The Magic of David Copperfield
1978 · Series
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Barnaby Jones
1973 · Series
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All Dogs Go to Heaven
1989 · Movie
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Burke's Law
1994 · Series
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Women of the House
1995 · Series
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Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Series
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Easy Street
1986 · Series
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Night of 100 Stars
1982 · Movie
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A Night at the Roxbury
1998 · Movie
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The Bob Hope Show
1950 · Series
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Nevada Smith
1966 · Movie
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Partners in Crime
1984 · Series
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Clueless
1996 · Series
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Police Woman
1974 · Series
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The Love Boat
1977 · Series
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The Muppets Go Hollywood
1979 · Movie
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The Lonely Guy
1984 · Movie