LONI ANDERSON

'Loni Kaye Anderson' (born August 5, 1946) 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, Deidra Hoffman (from an earlier marriage), who is a school principal in Anderson, California, and a son, Quinton Reynolds, whom she and Burt Reynolds adopted.^[1]

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Selected filmography

Notable television work

Notes

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Selected filmography

★ ''Vigilante Force'' (1976)

★ ''Stroker Ace'' (1983)

★ ''The Lonely Guy'' (1984)

★ ''All Dogs Go to Heaven'' (1989) (voice)

★ '' (1998)

★ ''A Night at the Roxbury'' (1998)

Notable television work

★ ''WKRP in Cincinnati'' (1978-1982)

★ ''A Letter to Three Wives'' (1985)

★ ''Blondie and Dagwood'' (1987) (voice)

★ ''Too Good to Be True'' (1988)

★ ''Sorry, Wrong Number'' (1989)

★ ''Nurses'' (cast member from 1993-1994)

★ ''Without Warning'' (1994)

★ ''The Mullets'' (2003-2004)

★ ''So NoTORIous'' (2006) (canceled after 10 episodes)

Notes

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

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