Loni Anderson, best known for her role on the 1970s and '80s TV sitcom "WKRP in Cincinnati," has died at 79. Anderson, who played receptionist Jennifer Marlowe on the CBS comedy about the staff of an AM radio station in Ohio,

WKRP in Cincinnati' stars Howard Hesseman, Loni Anderson and Jan Smithers. In 2021, the St. Paul, Minn., native opened up about becoming a sex symbol on the show, which chronicled the misadventures of the employees at a radio station in Ohio.

She starred with Burt Reynolds in the 1983 comedy film “Stroker Ace.” The two later married and became tabloid fixtures before divorcing in 1994.