Loni Anderson

At 79 years old, Loni Anderson has this physical status:

Loni Kaye Anderson (born August 5, 1945) is an American actress.

Jennifer Marlowe, a receptionist on the CBS sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati (1978–1982), has been praised for her three Golden Globe Award and two Emmy Award nominations.

Early life

Anderson was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, the niece of Klaydon Carl "Andy" Anderson, an environmental scientist, and Maxine Hazel, née Kallin). She grew up in suburban Roseville, Minnesota. She was named Valentine Queen of the Valentine's Day Winter Formal of 1963 as a senior at Alexander Ramsey Senior High School in Roseville. Her father was originally supposed to call her Leiloni, but she discovered that when she got to her teen years, it would be twisted into "Lay Loni"—so it was changed to simply Loni, as she says in her autobiography, My Life in High Heels.

Personal life

Anderson has been married four times. Bruce Hasselberg (1964–1966), Ross Bickell (1973–1981), and Burt Reynolds (1988–1994) were her first three husbands. She married musician Bob Flick, one of the founding members of The Brothers Four on May 17, 2008. They had first appeared at a movie premiere in Minneapolis in 1963.

Anderson has two children: Deidra (fathered by Hasselberg) and Quinton (born in 1988), whom she and Reynolds adopted. Andrea is her sister. In 1995, Anderson's autobiography, My Life in High Heels, was published.

Anderson was growing up with parents of the World War II generation who both smoked the consequences of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a common lung disease related to smoke. She joined COPD Together in 1999 as a spokesperson for a COPD charity group.

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Career

She made her acting debut in the film Nevada Smith (1966), starring Steve McQueen. She was practically unemployed as an actress for almost a decade before being cast on television shows in the mid-1970s. She appeared in two episodes of S.W.A.T., later on the sitcom Phyllis, and the detective film Police Woman and Harry O.

She starred well for the role of Chrissy on the popular sitcom Three's Company. She did not win the role, but Susan Walters appeared on a season two episode in 1978, an appearance that brought her to the ABC network's notice.

Jennifer Marlowe, the sultry receptionist on Cincinnati's sitcom WKRP (1978–1982), was Anderson's most well-known actor. When producers saw a poster of her in a red swimsuit, she was offered the position, which was remarkably similar to Farrah Fawcett's classic 1976 poster. Anderson obtained the role because her body resembled Jayne Mansfield's and because she possessed Marilyn Monroe's innocent sexuality.

Despite the fact that the series fell in the Nielsen ratings for the majority of its four-year run, it had a following among teenagers, young adults, and disc jockeys. Anderson walked out on the series's so-called "main attraction" during the 1980 summer hiatus, demanding a substantial salary increase despite her rising fame as the series's so-called "main attraction." She appeared in the CBS made-for-television film The Jayne Mansfield Story (1980), while renegotiating her contract. When the network understood her demands, she returned to the series and stayed until its cancellation in 1982. It has remained a favorite in syndication around the world.

Anderson has renowned for her fanciful personal life, especially her relationship and marriage to actor Burt Reynolds. They appeared in Stroker Ace (1983), which was a critical and box office failure. She appeared in The Lonely Guy (1984), starring Steve Martin, later appeared as herself in the romantic comedy The Lonely Guy (1984). In the animated classic film All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989), she portrayed Flo, a collie.

Anderson's acting career slowed from mid-to-late 1980s to late 1980s. In 1984, she was partnered with Wonder Woman actor Lynda Carter in the television series Partners in Crime. She appeared in television adaptations of classic Hollywood films, including A Letter to Three Wives (1985) with Michele Lee, and Sorry, Wrong Number (1989) with Patrick Macnee and Hal Holbrook, both of which received little attention. Anderson earned acclaim for her performance of comedian actress Thelma Todd (1991), as a child in the Fountain (1990). She attempted to co-star with her husband Burt Reynolds on his current CBS sitcom Evening Shade in the early 1990s, but the network did not embrace the concept, so the network kept Anderson with Marilu Henner. Producers suggested Anderson after Duncan was fired from CBS sitcom Designing Women in 1991, but it never came to pass because the network refused to pay Anderson the salary she had requested. Jennifer Marlowe returned to appear on two episodes of The New WKRP in Cincinnati, a sequel to the original series. Anderson was recruited to the third season of the NBC sitcom Nurses in 1993, playing hospital administrator Casey MacAffee. Despite the fact that she appeared in the series in an attempt to raise the series's ratings, the series was cancelled shortly after. Anderson has since appeared on several popular television shows, including playing "witch-trash" on Sabrina the Teenage Witch and as Vallery Irons' mother on V.I.P. She appeared in the comedies "A Night at the Roxbury" (1998).

Anderson appeared on the MeTV television network in Cincinnati, Ohio, promoting the WKRP in Cincinnati's television series and another classic television series.

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