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Loni Anderson
Loni Kaye Anderson
5 August 1945, St. Paul, Minnesota
As a brunette, I had previously been this serious actress. Then I became a blonde and got to play a completely different, comic role.
Loni Anderson
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, the daughter of Maxine Hazel (née Kallin), a model, and Klaydon Carl "Andy" Anderson, an environmental chemist and grew up in suburban Roseville. 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 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.
Anderson is currently a practicing Lutheran.
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Loni Anderson possesses a massive collection of Snow White miniatures and other Disney memorabilia, animation art, dolls, music boxes, plates and dachshund figures (which she inherited from her mother) that occupies a sizable room in her home.
Loni says that when she was a teenager, her mother was very struck by an attractive actor on TV and told Loni that was the kind of guy she ought to marry. The star's name was Burt Reynolds.
Auditioned for "Three's Company" (1977).
Adopted a son, Quinton, in 1988
Is a natural-born brunette.
As a high school senior, was voted Valentine Queen of her school's winter formal.
Won a bushel of local beauty contests as a teenager including her home town Miss Roseville pageant in 1963 which allowed her to compete (and become a finalist) in the Miss Minnesota competition. Among her other, less prestigious, titles were; Miss Thermo-Jac Clothing, Miss Thom McCann Shoes, Miss County Style Ford, Miss No Frost Eskimo and Queen of the Hole-In-One.
Described her early development and subsequent decision to have breast reduction surgery as follows, "When I was fourteen, my measurements were 37D-20-32. Now I feel more in proportion at 36-24-36 instead of outrageous."
Measurements before second reduction operation: 38E-25-36. After 1995 reduction surgery: 38C-25-36. (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine) At time of 1995 surgery reported to be a 34DD. (Source: National Enquirer).
Has a sister.
Is of Swedish descent.
Engaged to her former flame, Bob Flick. They first met when she was 17 years old and a model. They dated for six months. Planning to marry later in 2008 [January 16, 2008].
about the paparazzi] They almost ran me off the road several times. There are so many chances that they take to get the right photo.
Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.
[talking about how smoking used to be depicted in films] In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.
Almost every person over 45, and definitely those who have ever smoked, should have a spirometry test.
I am the odd man out in the family.
I do know the Spelling family. I worked for Aaron Spelling when I was a brunette. I've known them since Tori was a little girl.
I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.
I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.
I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.
I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.
I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.
I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.
Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.
In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.
It's amazing to me that young people will still pick up a cigarette.
Look at any black-and-white movie; everybody is smoking.
My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related.
My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?
My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.
My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman.
My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her.
My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives.
Smoking is related to practically every terrible thing that can happen to you.
The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life.
There is no cure for emphysema, but you can start treating it and have a better quality of life.
Three cigarettes in, your body already craves it. It is that addictive.
We have so much lung capacity that we don't even notice a problem until we are in our 40s.
When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset.
You're always better off if you quit smoking; it's never too late.
You're rejected 10 to 20 times for every part you are going to get.
Young people think that nothing bad will ever happen to them.
Your lungs are changed forever from your first cigarette.
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