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 in the production staff on several game shows. She began her career with the production crew of the Tom Kennedy version of Split Second. 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. 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 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 at the age of 70 at her home in Los Angeles, on August 7, 2021; she had been suffering from cancer.
Filmography
Film
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!Year
!Title
!Role
!Notes
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|1981
|Gangster Wars
|Chris Brennan
|Film debut
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|1998
|Behind the Zipper with Magda
|Sheila Jensen
|Short film -->
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|1998
|There's Something About Mary
|Sheila Jensen
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|-
|2007
|Cook Off!
|Christine Merriweather
|Released in 2017
|-
|2014
|Muffin Top: A Love Story
|Lauren Place
|Episode: "A Brutal Assault"
|-
|1979
|Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
|Chris Brennan
|Television Miniseries; 13 episodes
|-
|1981
|The Greatest American Hero
|Linda Smith
|Episode: "Requiem for a Narc"
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|1982
|Code Red
|unknown
|Episode: "Wildfire" -->
|-
|1982
|Massarati and the Brain
|Sally Leadbetter
|Television movie
|-
|1983
|Matt Houston
|Courtney Garner
|Episode: "A Novel Way to Die"
|-
|1983
|Cheers
|Herself
|5 episodes
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|1983
|Go
|Herself
|5 episodes -->
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|1983–1984
|Fantasy Island
|Alexis Miller
|Episode: "The Many Faces of Alex"
|-
|1995
|Visitors of the Night
|Herself
|5 episodes
|-
|2001
|Till Dad Do Us Part
|unknown
|Television movie
|-
|2002–2006
|Scrubs
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