Veteran TV actor of Night Court, Markie Post, has died after a years-long battle with cancer.
Gatekeepers News reports that veteran TV actor, Markie Post who played the public defender in the 1980s sitcom Night Court has died at 70 after a years-long battle with cancer.
Her family announced this in a statement, “Our pride is in who she was in addition to acting; a person who made elaborate cakes for friends, sewed curtains for first apartments and showed us how to be kind, loving, and forgiving in an often harsh world.”
Post’s Manager, Ellen Lubin Sanitsky, said she died in Los Angeles on Saturday.
Although Post was a longtime television regular who appeared in shows from Cheers to Scrubs, she was best known for her seven-season run on NBC’s Night Court, the Manhattan municipal court sitcom which ran from 1984 to 1992 and starred Harry Anderson as Judge Harry Stone.
She became a full-time cast member of Night Court in season three as Christine Sullivan, a sincere and strong-willed woman who served as a constant foil to Dan Fielding, John Larroquette’s womanising, narcissistic prosecutor.
Meanwhile, many of her co-stars in Night Court have died in recent years.
In 2018, Harry Anderson died at age 65 while Charles Robinson, who played the clerk Mac, died at 75 in July.
Post launched her television career while working behind the camera on the production crew of the game shows Double Dare and Card Sharks.
Lee Majors action-adventure series The Fall Guy, where she played Terri Michaels from 1982 to 1985 was her first series regular role.
She also featured as Cameron Diaz’s mother in There’s Something About Mary, Elliot Reid’s mother on Scrubs, and made appearances in The Love Boat, The A-Team, and Fantasy Island.
Post acted in the Lifetime movie Christmas Reservations, and guest-starred on the Kids Are Alright while she was receiving chemotherapy.
