The entertainment world lost an iconic actor this week.

Loni Anderson refused to play a stereotypical “dumb blonde” on “WKRP in Cincinnati,” a hit television show about a fictional easy-listening radio station abruptly switching to rock and roll, which aired from 1978 to 1982.

Instead, she reinvented the character of receptionist Jennifer Marlowe as “the smartest person in the room,” one who much of the show revolved around.

Anderson earned two Emmy nominations for the role.

She died Sunday after a prolonged illness, just a few days short of her 80th birthday.

But despite having more than 60 acting credits spread over decades, Anderson always celebrated her time on WKRP.

That included an appearance in 2012 at the Motor City Comic Con.

At that time, Anderson told WDET’s Quinn Klinefe

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