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Loni Anderson's first acting appearance, at age 10, was in the auditorium of her St. Paul grammar school. An art student at the University of Minnesota, Loni worked her way through her freshman year by winning beauty contests. Married and divorced at 18, Loni was compelled to take a teaching job to support herself and her infant daughter, but she was able to eventually complete her college education. Still a brunette in the early stages of her professional career, Loni acted in Midwestern repertory companies and TV commercials before coming to Hollywood with her second husband in 1975. Three years later, a newly blonde Loni was cast as "look but don't touch" radio station receptionist Jennifer Marlowe on the popular sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati. After the series' cancellation in 1982, Loni appeared in films and starred in two subsequent series, Partners in Crime (1984) and Easy Street (1986), as well as a syndicated WKRP revival in 1990.
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Loni Anderson's first acting appearance, at age 10, was in the auditorium of her St. Paul grammar school. An art student at the University of Minnesota, Loni worked her way through her freshman year by winning beauty contests. Married and divorced at 18, Loni was compelled to take a teaching job to support herself and her infant daughter, but she was able to eventually complete her college education. Still a brunette in the early stages of her professional career, Loni acted in Midwestern repertory companies and TV commercials before coming to Hollywood with her second husband in 1975.
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Loni Anderson used to cry herself to sleep as a child.....because she wasn't blonde. Imagine it, the blonde bombshell from WKRP in Cincinnati, the only actress who could do justice to the role of Jayne Mansfield (which she did) in a made-for-TV movie, cried as a kid because she wasn't blonde. Chemistry would lend her a hand in time, of course, but back then it was a huge issue.
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Loni Anderson has sold her Mulholland Estates home area for $5.7 million. According to Big Time Listings, Anderson, 60, bought the five-bedroom, 6,911-square-foot mansion in 1994 right after she and Burt Reynolds split.
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Loni Anderson was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on the 5th of August 1946. Her road to success began in 1964 when she became First Runner-up to Miss Minnesota. Loni Anderson's first T.V. appearance was on S.W.A.T. in 1975. In 1978 she was cast as Jennifer Marlowe on the sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati which ... starred Jan Smithers.
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After the series' cancellation in 1982, Loni appeared in films and starred in two subsequent series, Partners in Crime (1984) and Easy Street (1986), as well as a syndicated WKRP revival in 1990. One of the uncrowned queens of the TV movies, Loni has starred in the made-for-television biopics of Jayne Mansfield and Thelma Todd, and through the auspices of her own production company appeared in TV remakes of Leave Her to Heaven and Sorry Wrong Number.
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