Anderson, Loni

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Name	Anderson, Loni Gender: F
Birthname	Loni Kaye Anderson
born on	5 August 1945 at 08:32 (= 08:32 AM )
Place	Saint Paul, Minnesota, 44n57, 93w06
Timezone	CWT h5w (is war time)
Data source	BC/BR in hand Rodden Rating AA Collector: Clifford
Astrology data	12°44' 12°33 Asc. 09°59'

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Loni Anderson
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Biography

American actress, a lush and shapely blonde with a quality of great sweetness and a high IQ. She made her mark in TV sitcoms, starting with WKRP Cincinnati from September 1978 to 1982, and Partners in Crime from September to December 1984. She joined the cast of Nurses in 1993. Anderson also did movies, including Born Yesterday (1970), in which she discovered that she could play a bimbo well.

As a kid, she had black, curly hair and a complexion so dark that she was mistaken for a black or Hispanic. While attending college at the University of Minnesota, where she began in 1963, Anderson lived with her parents and minored in theater. Around the same time, she also won a few beauty contests and did a little modeling.

She had an early marriage to Salesman Bruce Hasselberg from 1964 to 1966 that produced a daughter, Deidra Hoffman, in 1965. (Deidra eventually had a daughter, McKenzie.) Anderson's second marriage was to actor Ross Bickell on 28 January 1974; the marriage lasted for seven years.

After six years together, she married actor Burt Reynolds on 29 April 1988; they adopted son Quinton four months later. They had first met on the Merv Griffin Show in 1978. In January 1994, they entered a bitter divorce battle with custody and money fights. In 1995, the acrimony continued with the publication of her autobiography, My Life in High Heels, claiming a dozen years of abuse at the hands of Reynolds as his lover, and, later, his wife, while Reynolds in turn flaunted his extramarital affair and accused her of being a lousy mother. Under the divorce settlement, she received a $1.9 million Beverly Hills home as well as a $500,000 vacation home in North Carolina, plus $15,000 a month in child support.

In her book, Anderson did not conceal the history of her own love life, including an affair with actor John Gavin and a romance that developed into a sex addiction for her former WKRP co-star Gary Sandy. By late 1995, Anderson was recovering nicely with the aid of a new live-in love in her live, attorney Geoff Brown.

Her fourth husband was musician Bob Flick whom she had met 45 years previously. He was a folk singer whose group the Brothers Four had the hit “Greenfields.” They met on 17 May 1963 and married on 17 May 2008 in Los Angeles.

Loni Anderson died on 3 August 2025 at a Los Angeles hospital following a prolonged illness, two days before her 80th birthday.

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Relationships

• associate relationship with Jump, Gordon (born 1 April 1932). Notes: Co-stars on "WKRP in Cincinnati"

• lover relationship with Gavin, John (born 8 April 1931)

• lover relationship with Sandy, Gary (born 25 December 1945). Notes: Co-stars on "WKRP in Cincinnati"

• spouse relationship with Reynolds, Burt (born 11 February 1936). Notes: Bitter very

• role played of/by Mansfield, Jayne (born 19 April 1933). Notes: 1980 film "The Jayne Mansfield Story"

• role played of/by Todd, Thelma (born 29 July 1906). Notes: 1991 TV film "White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd"

Events

• Social : Begin a program of study 1963 (University of Minnesota)

• Relationship : Marriage 1964 (Final husband Bruce Hasselberg)

• Family : Change in family responsibilities 1965 (Daughter Deidra born)

• Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1970 (Film, "Born Yesterday")

• Relationship : Marriage 1974 (Second husband Ross Bickell)

• Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 18 September 1978 ("WKRP in Cincinnati" TV series broadcast debut)
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• Relationship : Begin significant relationship December 1981 (First date with Burt Reynolds)
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• Social : Begin Travel February 1982 (Trip to Hawaii with Burt Reynolds)
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• Work : New Career August 1982 (First feature film)
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• Death of Mother 1 March 1985 (Mom died)
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• Relationship : Marriage 29 April 1988 (Third husband Burt Reynolds)
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• Family : Adopted a child 15 September 1988 (Adopted Quentin)
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• Relationship : Meet a significant person February 1993 (Met Geoff Brown)
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• Relationship : Begin significant relationship September 1993 (Began dating Geoff Brown)
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• Relationship : Divorce dates January 1994 (Bitter divorce from Reynolds)
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• Relationship : End significant relationship 5 December 1994 (Last time she saw Reynolds, in lawyer's office)
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• Relationship : Marriage 17 May 2008 (Fourth husband Bob Flick)
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• Death by Disease 3 August 2025 (Age 79)
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Source Notes

B.C. in hand from Frank C. Clifford.

Categories

• Traits : Body : Appearance gorgeous (Lush)

• Traits : Body : Hair (Black, dyed blonde)

• Traits : Mind : I.Q. high/ Mensa level (Mensa level: tested high IQ)

• Family : Relationship : Divorce bitter (Acrimonious divorce from Burt Reynolds)

• Family : Relationship : Mate - Noted (Burt Reynolds)

• Family : Relationship : Number of Divorces (Three)

• Family : Relationship : Number of Marriages (Four)

• Family : Parenting : Foster, Step, or Adopted Kids (One son adopted)

• Family : Parenting : Kids 1-3 (Two)

• Lifestyle : Financial : Extreme ups and downs (Periods of wealth and of big money problems)

• Vocation : Beauty : Sex-symbol

• Vocation : Entertainment : Actor/ Actress

• Vocation : Entertainment : TV series/ Soap star (WKRP in Cincinnati)

• Vocation : Writers : Autobiographer ("My Life in High Heels")

• Notable : Book Collection : Profiles Of Women