Markie Post

Marjorie Armstrong Post (November 4, 1950 – August 7, 2021), known professionally as Markie Post, was an American actress. Her best known roles include bail bondswoman Terri Michaels in '' The Fall Guy'' on ABC from 1982 to 1985; public defender Christine Sullivan on the NBC sitcom ''Night Court'' from 1985 to 1992; Georgie Anne Lahti Hartman on the CBS sitcom ''Hearts Afire'' from 1992 to 1995; and Barbara ‘Bunny’ Fletcher, the mother of Detective Erin Lindsay (Sophia Bush), on the NBC drama series '' Chicago P.D.'' from 2014 to 2017.

Early life

Post was born in Palo Alto, California, on November 4, 1950. Her father, Richard F. Post, worked as a physicist; her mother, Marylee (Armstrong) Post, was a poet. The second of the couple's three children, she and her two siblings were raised in Stanford and Walnut Creek. She attended Las Lomas High School where she was a cheerleader. Post then attended Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, and briefly attended Pomona College in California before returning to Lewis & Clark to earn her Bachelor of Arts degree.

Career

Prior to acting, Post worked on several game shows. She began her career with the production crew of the Tom Kennedy version of '' Split Second''. She also served as associate producer of CBS's '' Double Dare'' and as a card dealer on NBC's ''Card Sharks''. Later, after achieving fame as an actress, she played various game shows as a celebrity guest, including ''The'' ''Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour'', '' Super Password'', '' The (New) $25,000 Pyramid'', and '' The $100,000 Pyramid''. She helped a contestant win the $100,000 grand prize in a November 1987 tournament episode of ''The $100,000 Pyramid''.

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''. She also appeared on a 1979 episode of the detective show ''Barnaby Jones'', the pilot episode of ''Simon & Simon'' in 1981, the season two premiere of '' The Greatest American Hero'', two episodes of ''The A-Team'' (as two different characters: the 1983 episode "The Only Church in Town" and the 1984 episode "Hot Styles"), and a guest spot on the popular ABC Saturday night romance drama ''The Love Boat''. She appeared as Diane Chambers' best friend in the sitcom ''Cheers'', before eventually becoming a regular on the ABC action drama ''The Fall Guy''. She 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 ( Harry Anderson). She remained with the show from the third season until the end in 1992.
She played Georgie Anne Lahti Hartman on the comedy series ''Hearts Afire'', co-starring John Ritter. Post also had recurring guest-star roles on ''The District'' and on '' Scrubs'' as the mother of Dr. Elliot Reid.

Her film credits include ''There's Something About Mary'' (1998), in which Post played Mary's mother. She 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. She also had a starring role in NBC's 1995 movie ''Visitors in the Night''. She appeared as reporter Christine Merriweather in the 2007 improvisational comedy film (released in 2017) '' Cook Off!''. She 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.

Post was the voice of June Darby on the animated robot superhero TV series '' Transformers: Prime''. She appeared as recurring character Barbara 'Bunny' Fletcher in the first four seasons of ''Chicago P.D.''

Personal life

From 1971 to 1972, Post was first married to Stephen Knox, whom she met at Lewis & Clark College. She later married actor and writer Michael A. Ross, with whom she had two daughters.

Death

Post died aged 70 at her home in Los Angeles, on August 7, 2021; she had been suffering from cancer.

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

* 1994 CableACE Award for Children's Program Special - 6 and Young (''Presidential Inaugural Celebration for Children'') – Won

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1950 births
2021 deaths
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
Actresses from Palo Alto, California
American film actresses
American television actresses
American voice actresses
Deaths from cancer in California
Game show models
Lewis & Clark College alumni
People from Walnut Creek, California
Pomona College alumni