Acting
Returning to North America, Anderson's first national exposure was as a guest star in the 1977 series Logan's Run and as a "Sweathog" in a 1977 episode of Welcome Back, Kotter . She made numerous guest appearances on television, including Archie Bunker's Place , Battlestar Galactica , Dallas , T. J. Hooker , CHiPs , the pilot episode of The A-Team and The Fall Guy . She had recurring roles on St. Elsewhere and Jake and the Fatman . [1] She was the female lead of the NBC 1983 series Manimal . [2] She was a guest star in the Murder, She Wrote episode "Prediction: Murder" in 1989. [3]
Anderson played the female lead Dale Arden in Flash Gordon (1980) and Janet Gillis in Dead and Buried (1981). [4] [5] In 1983, she played the title role in a made-for-television film called Policewoman Centerfold , in which her character, a divorced police officer, is fired after posing nude for a men's magazine (based loosely on the true story of Springfield, Ohio patrolwoman Barbara Schantz, who was subsequently fired from her job after posing nude in Playboy magazine in the early 1980s). [6]
In 1986, she appeared with Nicolas Cage in The Boy in Blue and with Chuck Norris in Firewalker. [7] She starred in the made-for-television movie Beverly Hills Madam (1986), which starred Faye Dunaway. [8] From 1992–93, Anderson portrayed Natalie Marlowe, and briefly her twin sister Janet Dillon, on the soap opera All My Children . [9] She starred as Edie Adams in the television film Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter, [10] opposite Jeff Goldblum as Ernie Kovacs and played the coveted role of Marilyn Monroe in the television movie Marilyn & Bobby: Her Final Affair (1993). [11] Her last television appearance was in 1995 as a guest star in the short-lived CBS revival of Burke's Law . [12]
Anderson has made appearances at genre conventions, such as the October 2009 Big Apple Convention in Manhattan. [13]
