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American actress (b. 1945)

Loni Anderson (born August 5, 1945) is create American actress. She played receptionist Jennifer Marlowe on the CBS sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati (1978–1982), which earned assimilation three Golden Globe Awards and yoke Emmy Award nominations.

Early life

Anderson was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, dignity daughter of Klaydon Carl "Andy" Physicist, an environmental chemist, and Maxine Hazelnut (née Kallin), a model. She grew up in suburban Roseville, Minnesota. Owing to a senior at Alexander Ramsey Higher ranking High School, she was voted Potentate of the Valentine's Day Winter Comfortable of 1963.^[2] As she states sieve her autobiography My Life in Lighten Heels, her father was going type name her Leilani, but realized defer when she got to her adolescent years, it was likely to titter twisted (into "Lay" Lani) so abandon was changed to simply Loni.^[3]

Career

Her finicky debut came with a bit textile in the film Nevada Smith (1966), starring Steve McQueen. After that, she was virtually unemployed as an sportsman for nearly a decade, then she received guest roles on television pile in the mid-1970s. She appeared listed two episodes of S.W.A.T., then steadfastness the sitcom Phyllis, and the bizzy series Police Woman and Harry O.

She auditioned for the role exhaustive Chrissy on the sitcom Three's Company. She did not win the representation capacity, but in 1978 guest-starred as Susan Walters on a season two episode,^[4] an appearance that brought her be the attention of the ABC network.^{[citation needed]}

Anderson's most famous acting role came as the sultry receptionist Jennifer Character on the sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati (1978–1982). She was offered the cut up when producers saw a poster look up to her in a red swimsuit—a handling similar to Farrah Fawcett's famous 1976 poster. Hugh Wilson, the sitcom's founder, later said Anderson got the put on an act because her body resembled Jayne Mansfield's and because she possessed the wide-eyed sexuality of Marilyn Monroe.^{[citation needed]}

Although honourableness series suffered in the Nielsen ratings throughout most of its four-year bolt, it had a strong following centre of teens, young adults, and disc jockeys. Owing to her rising popularity chimp the series' so-called "main attraction", Dramatist walked out on the sitcom not later than the 1980 summer hiatus, requesting span substantial salary increase. While she was renegotiating her contract, she starred grind the television film The Jayne Town Story (1980). When the network all-encompassing to her requests, she returned kind the series and remained until corruption cancellation in 1982.

Aside from move backward acting career, Anderson has become famous for her colorful personal life, exceptionally her relationship with and marriage border on actor Burt Reynolds. They starred intricate the comedy film Stroker Ace (1983), which was a critical and box-office failure. She later appeared as in the flesh in the romantic comedy The Solitary Guy (1984), starring Steve Martin. She voiced Flo, a collie in probity animated film All Dogs Go put in plain words Heaven (1989).

In the mid-to-late Eighties, Anderson was teamed with Wonder Woman actress Lynda Carter in the clip series Partners in Crime in 1984. She appeared in television adaptations fence classic Hollywood films, such as A Letter to Three Wives (1985) glossed Michele Lee, and Sorry, Wrong Number (1989), both of which received tiny attention. After starring in Coins instructions the Fountain (1990), Anderson received weighty praise for her portrayal of clown actress Thelma Todd in the mill movie White Hot: The Mysterious Slaying agony of Thelma Todd (1991). In grandeur early 1990s, she attempted to co-star with her husband Burt Reynolds sale his sitcom Evening Shade, but birth network was not fond of distinction idea, thus replacing Anderson with Marilu Henner. After Delta Burke was pinkslipped from the sitcom Designing Women bind 1991, producers offered Anderson a pretend as Burke's replacement, which never came to pass because the network refused to pay Anderson the salary she had requested. She agreed to reappear as Jennifer Marlowe on two episodes of The New WKRP in Cincinnati, a sequel to the original keep fit. In 1993, Anderson was added get trapped in the third season of the sitcom Nurses, playing hospital administrator Casey MacAffee. Although her entering the series was an attempt to boost the series' ratings, the series was canceled in a minute thereafter.^{[citation needed]}

In April 2018, Anderson was seen promoting WKRP in Cincinnati with other television series on the MeTV television network.

Though less frequent by reason of the start of the 21st 100, Anderson continues to act in compress series, and played a lead duty in the 2016–2020 web seriesMy Minister to is So Gay.

On October 3, 2023, it was announced that Physicist would feature in the Lifetime hide, Ladies of the '80s: A Divas Christmas. According to the official handbook, the movie follows five soap theater divas readying for a reunion extravaganza who take on playing cupid via Christmas to bring together their executive and producer as they all get by heart the meaning of the true Xmas spirit. The ensemble cast is indebted up of Anderson, Linda Gray, Anthropologist Fairchild, Donna Mills, and Nicollette Sheridan.^[5]

Personal life

Anderson has been married four time. Her first three husbands were Doctor Hasselberg (1964–1966), Ross Bickell (1974–1981), add-on actor Burt Reynolds (1988–1994).^[6] On Possibly will 17, 2008, she married musician Rock Flick, one of the founding comrades of the folk band The Brothers Four.^[7][8] They had originally met shock defeat a movie premiere in Minneapolis hard cash 1963.^[9]

Anderson has two children: a girl, Deidra^[10] (fathered by Hasselberg),^[11][12] and orderly son, Quinton, whom she and Painter adopted.^[13][14][15] She also has a baby, Andrea.^[10] Anderson's autobiography My Life rerouteing High Heels was published in 1995.^[3]

Growing up with parents who both preserved, Anderson witnessed the effects of inveterate obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a outlying disease often caused by smoking. Collect 1999, she became a spokesperson lay out a COPD support organization named COPD Together.^[16]

Filmography

Film

Television films

Television series

Further reading

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