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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 5, 1945
Died
August 3, 2025
Place of Birth
Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
Also Known As
- Loni Kaye Anderson
Loni Anderson
1.2 Popularity
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.
Known For
7.4
Lily Marlowe
Ladies of the '80s: A Divas Christmas
2023
7.0
Self - Interviewee
I Am Burt Reynolds
2020
1.8
Self
Valerie
2019
8.7
Jean
Love You More
2017
1.7
Frances
My Sister is So Gay
2016
7.1
Nana Lyle
Baby Daddy
2012
7.8
Self
Carol Channing: Larger Than Life
2012
5.1
Self - Guest
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
0.0
Self
Annul Victory
2009
🎬
0.0
Back to the Grind
2007
Credits
Ladies of the '80s: A Divas Christmas
as Lily Marlowe
2023
7.4
I Am Burt Reynolds
as Self - Interviewee
2020
7.0
Valerie
as Self
2019
1.8
Love You More
as Jean
2017
8.7
My Sister is So Gay
as Frances
2016
1.7
Baby Daddy
as Nana Lyle
2012
7.1
Carol Channing: Larger Than Life
as Self
2012
7.8
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
5.1
Annul Victory
as Self
2009
0.0
🎬
Back to the Grind
2007
0.0
I Love the '70s: Volume 2
as Self
2006
0.0
So NoTORIous
as Kiki Spelling
2006
7.3
Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
as Self
2005
5.0
🎬
The Mullets
2003
4.0
Duck Dodgers
as Herself (voice)
2003
7.4
A Night at the Roxbury
as Barbara Butabi
1998
6.5
V.I.P.
as Carol Irons
1998
5.3
3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain
as Medusa
1998
4.8
Fast Track
1997
0.0
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
as Racine
1996
7.8
Clueless
1996
6.1
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
8.1
Deadly Family Secrets
as Martha
1995
3.0
Women of the House
as Self
1995
6.0
Burke's Law
as Claudia Loring
1994
6.7
Intimate Portrait
as Self
1993
4.5
Melrose Place
as Teri Carson
1992
5.9
Munchie
as Cathy Dobson
1992
3.8
The Price She Paid
as Lacey
1992
5.3
Nurses
as Casey MacAfee
1991
7.0
The New WKRP in Cincinnati
1991
7.0
White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd
as Thelma Todd
1991
6.0
Coins in the Fountain
as Leah Crawford
1990
1.0
Blown Away
as Lauren
1990
0.0
All Dogs Go to Heaven
as Flo (voice)
1989
6.8
Blondie & Dagwood: Second Wedding Workout
as Blondie Bumstead (voice)
1989
0.0
Sorry, Wrong Number
as Madeleine Stevenson
1989
4.3
B.L. Stryker
1989
6.0
Too Good to Be True
as Ellen Berent
1988
3.3
Whisper Kill
as Liz Bartlett
1988
7.3
Necessity
as Lauren LaSalle
1988
4.0
Blondie & Dagwood
as Blondie Bumstead (voice)
1987
10.0
🎬
Stranded
as Stacy Tweed
1986
6.0
Easy Street
1986
5.7
A Letter to Three Wives
as Lora Mae Holloway
1985
1.7
Amazing Stories
as Love
1985
7.4
Partners in Crime
as Sydney Kovack
1984
6.2
My Mother's Secret Life
as Ellen Blake
1984
7.0
The Lonely Guy
as Herself (uncredited)
1984
6.2
Stroker Ace
as Pembrook Feeney
1983
4.9
Country Gold
as Mollie Dean Purcell
1982
6.0
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
1982
6.7
🎬
Women I Love: Beautiful But Funny
as Self
1982
0.0
Magic with the Stars
as Hostess
1982
0.0
🎬
All-Star Party for Burt Reynolds
as Self
1981
6.0
Sizzle
as Julie Davis
1981
0.0
The Jayne Mansfield Story
as Jayne Mansfield
1980
5.9
The Fantastic Funnies
as Host
1980
0.0
The Big Show
as Self
1980
0.0
Siegfried and Roy - Superstars Of Magic
as Self
1980
7.0
The Muppets Go Hollywood
as Self
1979
6.2
The Magic of David Copperfield
1978
7.0
WKRP in Cincinnati
as Jennifer Marlowe
1978
7.6
Three on a Date
as Angela Ross
1978
1.0
The Incredible Hulk
as Sheila Cantrell
1977
7.2
The Love Boat
as Kitty Scofield
1977
6.3
The Love Boat
as Barbie
1977
6.3
The Love Boat
as Kim Holland / Doris Wilson
1977
6.3
Three's Company
1977
7.6
🎬
The McLean Stevenson Show
1976
5.0
Vigilante Force
as Peaches (uncredited)
1976
4.7
The Invisible Man
as Andrea Hanover
1975
6.1
S.W.A.T.
1975
7.0
Police Woman
as Waitress
1974
6.2
Harry O
1974
4.6
Barnaby Jones
as Joanna Morgan
1973
6.9
The Bob Newhart Show
as Leslie Greely
1972
7.5
Nevada Smith
as Brunette Saloon Girl (uncredited)
1966
6.7
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
The Bob Hope Show
as Self
1950
7.0
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.2
Amazing Stories: The Movie III
as (archive footage)
N/A
0.0