{"id":105842,"date":"2021-08-08T14:18:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T19:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=105842"},"modified":"2021-08-08T14:55:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T19:55:35","slug":"actress-markie-post-dead-at-70-entertainment-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=105842","title":{"rendered":"Actress Markie Post Dead at 70 &#8211; Entertainment News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=105842\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=105842\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-105843 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/download-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/download-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/download-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/download-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/download-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By Geoffrey Huchel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Actress Markie Post, known for her roles on the series NIGHT COURT (1984-1992) and THE FALL GUY (1981-1986), passed away August 7, 2021, after a battle with cancer. She was 70.<\/p>\n<p>Post was born on November 4, 1950, in Palo Alto, California. Her acting career began in the late 1970s with appearances on series such as CHIPS (1977-1983), BARNABY JONES (1973-1980), THE INCREDIBLE HULK (1977-1982), BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25TH CENTURY (1979-1981), and HART TO HART (1979-1984).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Post remained a prominent fixture to TV and film throughout the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and until as recent as 2019. Her additional credits include EIGHT IS ENOUGH (1977-1981), THE GREATEST AMERICAN HERO (1981-1983), SIMON &amp; SIMON (1981-1989), THE LOVE BOAT (1977-1987), CHEERS (1982-1993), FANTASY ISLAND (1977-1984), THE A-TEAM (1983-1987), HOTEL (1983-1988), BEYOND SUSPICION (1993), VISITORS IN THE NIGHT (1995), HEARTS AFIRE (1992-1995), ODD MAN OUT (1999-2000), THE DISTRICT (2000-2004), SCRUBS (2001-2010), GHOST WHISPERER ( 2005-2010), CHICAGO P.D. (2014-), SANTA CLARITA DIET (2017-2019), and THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT (2018-2019). Post will also be remembered for playing the mother to Cameron Diaz\u2019s character, Mary, in the hit comedy THERE\u2019S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY (1998).<\/p>\n<p>Ringside Report sends our condolences to Markie Post\u2019s family during their time of grief.<\/p>\n<p>[si-contact-form form=&#8217;2&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Geoffrey Huchel Actress Markie Post, known for her roles on the series NIGHT COURT (1984-1992) and THE FALL GUY (1981-1986), passed away August 7, 2021, after a battle with cancer. She was 70. Post was born on November 4, 1950, in Palo Alto, California. Her acting career began in the late 1970s with appearances [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17984],"tags":[27134],"class_list":["post-105842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-actress-markie-post-dead-at-70-entertainment-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105842"}],"version-history":[{"count":-2,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}