Loanne Bishop

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Loanne Bishop
Born (1955-11-10) November 10, 1955 (age 68)
Denver, Colorado, U.S.
OccupationActress
Years active1979–present

Loanne Bishop (born November 10, 1955) is an American actress, of film and television.

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Bishop was raised in Denver, Colorado. Her father was a Mennonite minister and her mother was a teacher. She first attended Denver University, where she was a theatre major, then transferred to the University of Colorado, where she was a German major. [1]

Career

Loanne Bishop moved to Los Angeles in 1978; she worked as a singing waitress for several months. [1] She was the lead in the independently-produced film The Wisdom Barrier. [2]

Bishop appeared on Kate Loves a Mystery and Barnaby Jones . [3] [2] Bishop played the character of Rose Kelly in the TV daytime soap opera General Hospital from 1980 until 1984. [4] In 1984, she was nominated for the Daytime Emmy Award as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. [5] During her time on General Hospital, she made appearances at various events. [2] [3] [6] Bishop, a mezzo soprano [2] who can pay the violin, performed on the album Love in the Afternoon with other soap opera stars. [7] She did not want to sign a long-term contract for the show. [8]

In 1985, Bishop was in Hostage Flight, she played a flight attendant.

She appeared on Hill Street Blues in 1987. [9]

Personal life

She dated Peter Bergman in the 1980s. [10]

Filmography

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