Name
Loni Anderson
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1945-08-05
Deathday
2025-08-03 (80 years old)
Place of Birth
Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
Biography
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.
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- 1966 Nevada Smith as Brunette Saloon Girl (uncredited)
- 1989 All Dogs Go to Heaven as Flo (voice)
- 1998 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain as Medusa
- 1980 The Fantastic Funnies as Host
- 1998 A Night at the Roxbury as Barbara Butabi
- 1983 Stroker Ace as Pembrook Feeney
- 1992 Munchie as Cathy Dobson
- 1988 Too Good to Be True as Ellen Berent
- 1982 Magic with the Stars as Self - Host
- 1990 Blown Away as Lauren
- 2023 Ladies of the '80s: A Divas Christmas as Lily Marlowe
- 1992 The Price She Paid as Lacey
- 1980 The Jayne Mansfield Story as Jayne Mansfield
- 2012 Carol Channing: Larger Than Life as Self
- 1976 Vigilante Force as Peaches (uncredited)
- 1985 A Letter to Three Wives as Lora Mae Holloway
- 1988 Necessity as Lauren LaSalle
- 1998 Amazing Stories: The Movie III as Love
- 1986 Stranded as Stacy Tweed
- 1982 Country Gold as Mollie Dean Purcell
- 1991 White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd as Thelma Todd
- 1989 Blondie & Dagwood: Second Wedding Workout as Blondie Bumstead (voice)
- 1988 Whisper Kill as Liz Bartlett
- 1989 Sorry, Wrong Number as Madeleine Stevenson
- 1995 Deadly Family Secrets as Martha
- 1990 Coins in the Fountain as Leah Crawford
- 1984 My Mother's Secret Life as Ellen Blake
- 1981 Sizzle as Julie Davis
- 2009 Annul Victory as Self
- 2019 Valerie as Self
- 1981 All-Star Party for Burt Reynolds as Self
- 1978 Three on a Date as Angela Ross
- 2020 I Am Burt Reynolds as Self - Interviewee
- 1979 The Muppets Go Hollywood as Self (uncredited)
- 1984 The Lonely Guy as Herself (uncredited)
- 1982 Night of 100 Stars as Self
- 1982 Women I Love: Beautiful But Funny as Self
- 2003 Duck Dodgers ( 1 episode ) as Herself (voice)
- 1978 WKRP in Cincinnati ( 90 episodes ) as Jennifer Marlowe
- 1985 Amazing Stories ( 1 episode ) as Love
- 1977 The Love Boat ( 2 episodes ) as Kitty Scofield
- 2005 Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1996 E! True Hollywood Story ( 1 episode )
- 1996 Clueless ( 1 episode )
- 1977 Three's Company ( 1 episode )
- 1991 Nurses ( 22 episodes ) as Casey MacAfee
- 1992 Melrose Place ( 3 episodes ) as Teri Carson
- 2006 So NoTORIous ( 10 episodes ) as Kiki Spelling
- 1974 Harry O ( 1 episode )
- 2003 The Mullets ( 11 episodes ) as Mandi Mullet-Heidecker
- 1991 The New WKRP in Cincinnati ( 1 episode )
- 1975 S.W.A.T. ( 1 episode )
- 1980 The Big Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2007 Back to the Grind ( 1 episode )
- 2006 I Love the '70s: Volume 2 ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1976 The McLean Stevenson Show ( 1 episode )
- 1986 Easy Street ( 22 episodes )
- 1984 Partners in Crime ( 13 episodes ) as Sydney Kovack
- 1989 B.L. Stryker ( 1 episode )
- 1980 Siegfried and Roy - Superstars Of Magic ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1978 The Magic of David Copperfield ( 1 episode )
- 1996 Sabrina, the Teenage Witch ( 1 episode ) as Racine
- 1993 Intimate Portrait ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2012 Baby Daddy ( 1 episode ) as Nana Lyle
- 1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson ( 3 episodes ) as Self
- 1950 The Bob Hope Show ( 8 episodes ) as Self
- 1973 Barnaby Jones ( 1 episode ) as Joanna Morgan
- 2017 Love You More ( 1 episode ) as Jean
- 2009 Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 1994 Burke's Law ( 1 episode ) as Claudia Loring
- 1995 Women of the House ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1977 The Love Boat ( 1 episode ) as Barbie
- 1977 The Love Boat ( 1 episode ) as Kim Holland / Doris Wilson
- 1977 The Incredible Hulk ( 1 episode ) as Sheila Cantrell
- 1974 Police Woman ( 1 episode ) as Waitress
- 1975 The Invisible Man ( 1 episode ) as Andrea Hanover
- 1998 V.I.P. ( 1 episode ) as Carol Irons
- 1944 Golden Globe Awards ( 2 episodes ) as Self - Nominee
- 1972 The Bob Newhart Show ( 1 episode ) as Leslie Greely
- 2016 My Sister is So Gay ( 13 episodes ) as Frances
- 1997 Fast Track ( 1 episode )
