1. Marjorie Armstrong Post, known professionally as Markie Post, was an American actress.
17 Facts About Markie Post
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Markie Post's father, Richard F Post, worked as a physicist; her mother, Marylee Post, was a poet.
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Markie Post attended Las Lomas High School where she was a cheerleader.
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Markie Post began her career with the production crew of the Tom Kennedy version of Split Second.
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Markie Post served as associate producer of CBS's Double Dare and as a card dealer on NBC's Card Sharks.
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Markie Post helped a contestant win the $100,000 grand prize in a November 1987 tournament episode of The $100,000 Pyramid.
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Markie Post's early acting credits include a 1979 appearance as a red spandex wearing femme fatale in the science-fiction series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.
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Markie Post appeared as Diane Chambers' best friend in the sitcom Cheers, before eventually becoming a regular on the ABC action drama The Fall Guy.
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Markie Post left The Fall Guy, for her most popular role as Christine Sullivan, the tightly wound public defender on the NBC TV comedy series Night Court; the character was the foil to John Laroquette's misogynistic assistant district attorney, Dan Fielding, and the eventual love interest for Judge Harry Stone.
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Markie Post remained with the show from the third season until the end in 1992.
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Markie Post played Georgie Anne Lahti Hartman on the comedy series Hearts Afire, co-starring John Ritter.
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Markie Post had recurring guest-star roles on The District and on Scrubs as the mother of Dr Elliot Reid.
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Markie Post played a call girl and dominatrix in the 1988 TV movie Tricks of the Trade opposite Cindy Williams, and a singer in Glitz with Jimmy Smits, based on the novel by Elmore Leonard.
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Markie Post had a starring role in NBC's 1995 movie Visitors in the Night.
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Markie Post appeared in the 30 Rock episode "The One with the Cast of Night Court" playing herself when Harry Anderson, Charles Robinson, and she staged a mock reunion of the Night Court cast.
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Markie Post later married actor and writer Michael A Ross, with whom she had two daughters.
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Markie Post died aged 70 at her home in Los Angeles, on August 7,2021, she had been suffering from cancer.