
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.
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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Ladies of the '80s: A Divas Christmas
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Release Date:02/12/2023

I Am Burt Reynolds
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Valerie
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Release Date:07/08/2019

Carol Channing: Larger Than Life
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Release Date:20/01/2012

Annul Victory
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Release Date:02/05/2009

A Night at the Roxbury
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Release Date:01/10/1998

3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain
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Release Date:26/03/1998

Deadly Family Secrets
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Release Date:04/12/1995

Munchie
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Release Date:15/05/1992

The Price She Paid
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Release Date:31/03/1992

White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd
Character:Thelma Todd
Release Date:05/05/1991

Coins in the Fountain
Character:Leah Crawford
Release Date:28/09/1990

Blown Away
Character:Lauren
Release Date:01/01/1990

All Dogs Go to Heaven
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Blondie & Dagwood: Second Wedding Workout
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Too Good to Be True
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Whisper Kill
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Release Date:16/05/1988

Necessity
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Blondie & Dagwood
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Release Date:15/05/1987

Stranded
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Release Date:22/09/1986

A Letter to Three Wives
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Release Date:16/12/1985

My Mother's Secret Life
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Release Date:05/02/1984

The Lonely Guy
Character:Herself (uncredited)
Release Date:27/01/1984

Stroker Ace
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Release Date:01/07/1983

Country Gold
Character:Mollie Dean Purcell
Release Date:23/11/1982

Night of 100 Stars
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Release Date:08/03/1982

Women I Love: Beautiful But Funny
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Release Date:28/02/1982

Magic with the Stars
Character:Hostess
Release Date:17/01/1982

All-Star Party for Burt Reynolds
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Release Date:13/12/1981

Sizzle
Character:Julie Davis
Release Date:29/11/1981

The Jayne Mansfield Story
Character:Jayne Mansfield
Release Date:29/10/1980

The Fantastic Funnies
Character:Host
Release Date:15/05/1980

The Muppets Go Hollywood
Character:Self
Release Date:16/05/1979

Three on a Date
Character:Angela Ross
Release Date:17/02/1978

Vigilante Force
Character:Peaches (uncredited)
Release Date:09/09/1976

Nevada Smith
Character:Brunette Saloon Girl (uncredited)
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Love You More
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My Sister is So Gay
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Baby Daddy
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Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
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Back to the Grind
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I Love the '70s: Volume 2
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So NoTORIous
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Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
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The Mullets
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Duck Dodgers
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V.I.P.
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Fast Track
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Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
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Clueless
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E! True Hollywood Story
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Women of the House
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Burke's Law
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Intimate Portrait
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Melrose Place
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Nurses
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The New WKRP in Cincinnati
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B.L. Stryker
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Easy Street
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Amazing Stories
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Partners in Crime
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The Big Show
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Siegfried and Roy - Superstars Of Magic
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The Magic of David Copperfield
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WKRP in Cincinnati
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The Incredible Hulk
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The Love Boat
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The Love Boat
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The Love Boat
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Three's Company
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The McLean Stevenson Show
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The Invisible Man
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S.W.A.T.
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Police Woman
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Harry O
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Barnaby Jones
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The Bob Newhart Show
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
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The Bob Hope Show
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Golden Globe Awards
Character:Self - Nominee