Loni Anderson

 From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Loni Kaye Anderson born August 5 1945 is 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 Valentines 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 Andersons most famous acting role came as receptionist Jennifer Marlowe on WKRP in Cincinnati Her pinup photo in a bikini became one of the bestselling wall posters of the 1970s She and husband Burt Reynolds made one film together the 1983 stockcar racing comedy Stroker Ace a huge boxoffice failure Shortly after her divorce from Reynolds she appeared as a regular in the final season 19931994 on the NBC sitcom Nurses Anderson portrayed actress Jayne Mansfield in a madeforTV 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 witchtrash cousin on Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Vallery Irons mother on VIP Anderson has been married four times her first three marriages were to Bruce Hasselberg 19641966 Ross Bickell 19731981 and actor and onetime costar Burt Reynolds 19881993 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 Andersons native Minneapolis a few years after Flicks 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 Anderson is currently a practicing Lutheran Description above from the Wikipedia article Loni Anderson licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia