

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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Lily Marlowe
2020
Self - Interviewee
2019
Self
2016
Frances
2012
Nana Lyle
2009
Self - Guest
2006
Kiki Spelling
2005
2003
Unknown
2003
Herself (voice)
1998
Barbara Butabi
1998
Carol Irons
1998
1996
1996
Unknown
1996
Unknown
1995
Martha
1994
Claudia Loring
1992
Teri Carson
1992
Cathy Dobson
1991
Casey MacAfee
1991
Unknown
1991
1990
Leah Crawford
1990
Lauren
1989
Flo (voice)
1989
Madeleine Stevenson
1989
Unknown
1988
Ellen Berent
1988
Liz Bartlett
1987
Blondie Bumstead (voice)
1986
Unknown
1985
Love
1984
Sydney Kovack
1984
Ellen Blake
1984
Herself (uncredited)
1983
Pembrook Feeney
1980
Jayne Mansfield
1980
1980
Self
1980
1979
1978
1978
Jennifer Marlowe
1977
Sheila Cantrell
1977
Kitty Scofield
1977
Barbie
1977
Kim Holland / Doris Wilson
1977
Unknown
1976
Unknown
1976
Peaches (uncredited)
1975
Andrea Hanover
1975
Unknown
1974
Waitress
1974
Unknown
1973
Joanna Morgan
1972
Leslie Greely
1966
Brunette Saloon Girl (uncredited)
1962
1950
1944
Self - Nominee
Loni Kaye Anderson