Los Angeles (AP) -Loni Anderson, who played a fighting radio station in the murdered reception in the HIT -TV comedy “WKRP in Cincinnati” died on Sunday, shortly before her 80th birthday.
Anderson died after a “longer” illness in a hospital in Los Angeles, said her long -time publicist Cheryl J. Kagan.
“We are aware of the death of our dear wife, mother and grandmother with a broken heart,” said Anderson's family in a explanation.
“WKRP in Cincinnati” was broadcast from 1978-1982 and was tried in a flag-radio station in Ohio to reinvent itself with rock music. The line -up included Gary Sandy, Tim Reid, Howard Hesseman, Frank Bonner and Jan Smithers, alongside Anderson as a sexy and intelligent Jennifer Marlowe.
As a receptionist of the station, the blonde and high-heeled Jennifer used her sex appell to distract unwanted business according to her boss, Mr. Carlson. The station often kept their efficiency before the incompetence of others.
Anderson brought the role of two Emmy Award nominations and three Golden Globe nominations.
Anderson played on the big screen in addition to Burt Reynolds in the comedy “Stroker Ace” from 1983. The two married and became boulevard newspapers before the divorce from 1994.
Anderson wrote an autobiography from 1995, “My life in high heels”, which she said, “the growth of a woman, a woman who survives. It's about my childhood, my parents' death, my career, my divorces and my children. Then of course the trauma of my marriage to Burt.”
“I think if you write about yourself, you have to do it and do everything,” Anderson told the Associated Press. “They may not even tell the nicest things about themselves because they say the truth.”
Anderson is survived by her husband Bob Flick, the daughter Deidra and the son-in-law Charlie Hoffman, the son Quinton Anderson Reynolds, the grandchildren McKenzie and Megan Hoffman, the stepson Adam Flick and his wife Helene, step-cheeky children Felix and Maximilian.
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Associated press journalist Itzel Luna in Los Angeles contributed.