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.

She won Emmy nominations for her sitcom role as a deceptively smart radio station receptionist. Her divorce from Burt Reynolds landed her in the tabloids.

Actress Loni Anderson, who won acclaim for her U.S. television sitcom role as the brainy, glamorous radio station receptionist defying workplace sexual stereotypes on "WKRP in Cincinnati," died on Sunday at age 79,