Markie Post has passed away at the age of 70 after battling cancer for three years and 10 months.
She was known for her roles in the 80s sitcom Night Court and Something About Mary.
According to the news outlet Deadline, Post’s longtime manager Ellen Lubin Sanitsky confirmed the devastating news.
This comes only less than a month after Post’s Night Court co-star Charlie Robinson, who played a clerk on the show, passed away.
His manager attributed his death to metastatic adenocarcinoma and septic shock, which caused the actor to suffer cardiac arrest.
Post was born in Palo Alto, California in 1950 and raised in the Bay Area with her siblings. Her mother was a poet and her father was a scientist. She then decided to go to Lewis and Clark College in Portland.
Early in Post’s professional life, she worked as a dealer on a program Card Sharks hosted by Jim Perry, and an associate producer of the game show Double Dare hosted by the late Alex Trebek.
“I wrote questions for Family Feud and I found prizes for Price Is Right and I researched Split Second – I learned more researching that game show than I did in four years of college,” she joked years later.
Post remained on TV through the 1970s as she drifted from game shows into acting.
She landed roles on The Love Boat, Barnaby Jones, The A-Team, and Buck Rodgers in the 25th Century among others.
Post joined Night Court during its third season as a kindhearted public defender named Christine Sullivan, a part of a love triangle between prosecutor Dan (John Larroquette) and judge Harry (Harry Anderson).
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