Last year Anderson, who played the comedy of the hit TV comedy “WKRP in Cincinnati”, died on Sunday, just a few days before 80.
Anderson died in Los Angeles Hospital after a “prolonged” illness, said her long -time journalist Cheryl J. Kagan.
“We are a fracture to announce our dear wife, mother and grandmother,” Anderson’s family said in a statement.
“WKRP in Cincinnati” broadcast from 1978 to 1982 and was set in the flag radio station Ohio, which tried to rediscover rock music. The cast included Gary Sandy, Tim Reid, Howard Hesseman, Frank Bonner and Jan Smithers, along with Anderson as sexy and smart Jennifer Marlowe.
As a reception station, a blonde and Jennifer with a high heel was used by her sexual attraction to avert unwanted business calls for his boss, Mr. Carlson. Its efficiency often maintained the station running in the face of the incompetence of others.
The role was won by Anderson Two Emmy Award nominations and three Golden Globe nominations.
Anderson played on a large screen together with Burt Reynolds in the comedy “Stroker Ace” of 1983 and later married and became tabloid accessories before their chaotic disintegration in 1994.
Their son, Quinton Reynolds, was “the best decision we have ever made throughout our relationship,” she said during the revelation of the bronze bust in Reynolds’ Hollywood grave in 2021.
“I think back to the beginning of our relationship, it was so, oh, God, tabloid. We were still just a spectacle. And it was hard to have a relationship in this atmosphere. And somehow we did it through many ascends and falls,” Anderson said Associated Press.
Anderson described in detail his turbulent marriage in the 1995 autobiography “My Life on High Heels”, which she said was to “grow a woman, a woman who survives”.
“I think if you write about yourself, you have to do it warts and everything,” Anderson AP said, promoting the book. “Maybe you won’t even say the most beautiful things about yourself because you are telling the truth.”
She married four times, most recently with Bob Flick in 2008.
Anderson was born on August 5, 1945 in Saint Paul in Minnesota. Her father was an environmental chemist and her mother was a model.
Her first role of the actress was a small role in the film “Nevada Smith” from 1966, starring Steve McQueen. Most of her career was spent on a small screen with early guests at the age of 20. After “WKRP” Anderson played in the short -term comedy series “Easy Street” and appeared in movies made for TV, including “letter to three wives” and “White Hot: The Mystery Murder of Thelma Todd”.
In 2023 she played on Lifetime “Ladies of 80.
“I’m broken when I heard about the passing beautiful last year Anderson!” Fairchild wrote on X. “The sweetest and most beautiful lady! I’m just destroyed to hear it.”
Anderson survived Flick, her daughter Deidra and the law of her son Charlie Hoffman, son of Quinton Anderson Reynolds, grandchildren of McKenzie and Megan Hoffman, stepdan Flick and wife Helene and stepfights Felix and Maximilian.
A private family service is planned in the Hollywood Forever cemetery, Kagan said.
