Loni Anderson

Loni Anderson
Image:Landerson3.jpg Anderson as Jayne Mansfield, circa 1980
Birth name	Loni Kaye Anderson
Born	August 5 1945 (age 63) Saint Paul, Minnesota  United States

Loni Kaye Anderson (born August 5, 1945) is an American actress, best known for her role as "Jennifer Marlowe" on the television sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati and as a former wife of Burt Reynolds (from 1988 to 1993). Her divorce from Reynolds was a bitter, well-publicized debacle.

Anderson was born in St. Paul, Minnesota to Carl K. Anderson and Maxine H. Kallin. As she tells it 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".

Shortly after her divorce from Reynolds, she appeared as a regular in the final season (1993-1994) on the NBC sitcom Nurses.

Her most famous acting role came as receptionist Jennifer Marlowe on WKRP in Cincinnati. She has also been in various movies. She portrayed Jayne Mansfield in a made-for-TV biopic about her along with Arnold Schwarzenegger. She teamed with Lynda Carter in the 1984 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 two children: a daughter, Deidre Hoffman (from an earlier marriage), who is a school superintendent in Redding, California,^{[citation needed]} and a son, Quinton Reynolds, whom she and Burt Reynolds adopted.^[1]

Trivia

• Anderson is a lifelong friend of soap opera actress Deidre Hall.
• Appeared with fellow Minnesota native Louie Anderson in an ad for the Mall of America which played on their shared last name (a very common name in that region).
• Had a romantic relationship with WKRP In Cincinnati co-star Gary Sandy.
• Was born a brunette.

TV Work

• The Magnificent Magical Magnet of Santa Mesa (1977)
• Three on a Date (1978)
• WKRP in Cincinnati (1978-1982)
• The Jayne Mansfield Story (1980)
• Sizzle (1981)
• Country Gold (1982)
• My Mother's Secret Life (1984)
• Partners in Crime (1984) (canceled after 4 months)
• A Letter to Three Wives (1985)
• Stranded (1986)
• Easy Street (1986-1987)
• Blondie and Dagwood (1987) (voice)
• Necessity (1988)
• A Whisper Kills (1988)
• Too Good to Be True (1988)
• Sorry, Wrong Number (1989)
• Blown Away (1990)
• Coins in the Fountain (1990)
• White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd (1991)
• The Price She Paid (1992)
• Nurses (cast member from 1993-1994)
• Gambler V: Playing for Keeps (1994)
• Without Warning (1994) (Cameo)
• Deadly Family Secrets (1995)
• A Night at the Roxbury (1998)
• The Mullets (2003-2004)
• So NoTORIous (2006)

Filmography

• Vigilante Force (1976)
• Stroker Ace (1983)
• The Lonely Guy (1984) (Cameo)
• All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989) (voice)
• Munchie (1992)
• 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain (1998)
• A Night at the Roxbury (1998)

Notes

1. ^ "Deidre Hall's Miracle", The American Surrogacy Center, Inc., 1996, retrieved September 7, 2006

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