Actor who starred as the smart receptionist in WKRP in Cincinnati and was married to Burt Reynolds for six years

Anderson flipped the script on the dumb blonde stereotype with her breakout role on the CBS sitcom “WKRP in Cincinnati."

Loni Anderson, who played a struggling radio station’s empowered receptionist on the hit TV comedy “WKRP in Cincinnati,” died Sunday, just days before her 80th birthday.