Markie Post
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 Markie Post at the 1988 Emmy Awards |
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| Born | Marjorie Armstrong Post November 4, 1950 Palo Alto, California |
| Years active | 1978 – present |
Marjorie Armstrong Post (born on November 4, 1950, in Palo Alto, California) is an actress, best known for her 1985–1992 role as public defender Christine Sullivan on the NBC sitcom Night Court, and as bail bonds contractor Terri in The Fall Guy from 1982 to 1985.
[edit] Personal life
Post is the daughter of scientist Richard F. Post, who is well-known for his patents in the fields of nuclear fusion, particle accelerators, and electronic and mechanical energy storage.
Post grew up in Walnut Creek, California, and attended Las Lomas High School where she was a cheerleader. She later earned her Bachelor of Arts from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. Post is married to actor and writer Michael A. Ross, and has two daughters.
[edit] 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 Alex Trebek's Double Dare and as a card dealer on the NBC Jim Perry version of Card Sharks.
Post often was a celebrity player on various game shows, at which she usually excelled; she was particularly proficient on Pyramid and Password. She also appeared in the science fiction show Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, before eventually becoming a regular on the ABC action drama The Fall Guy.
She played Christine Sullivan on the 1980s television comedy series Night Court (from the third season until the show's end), attractive, honest to a fault and somewhat naïve. Other early TV credits include two episodes of The A-Team (as two different characters, in the second season's "The Only Church In Town" (1983) and the third season's "Hot Styles" (1984) respectively).
She played Georgie Anne Lahti Hartman on the series Hearts Afire (1992–1995), starring John Ritter. Film credits include There's Something About Mary (1998), in which she played Sheila Jensen, the mother of Cameron Diaz's title character. She was a call girl in the 1988 TV movie Tricks of the Trade opposite Cindy Williams and a singer in Glitz with Jimmy Smits, based on a novel by Elmore Leonard.
Post has been a guest star frequently on Scrubs (playing the mother of Dr. Elliot Reid) and on The District.
She most recently worked on a movie titled Cook Off! as the character Christine Merriweather.
The actress was mentioned in a 2006 episode of American Dad when a character wanted to Google her to see if she had died yet, and in the pilot of Will & Grace when Will says to Grace, "You are so Markie Post in every single Lifetime movie." She is also mentioned in the season 3 premiere of The Venture Bros. when the Monarch admits to "abusing [himself] to Markie Post", explaining that "Night Court was huge at the time."
[edit] External links
- Markie Post at the Internet Movie Database
- Markie Post at TV.com
