{"id":2835,"date":"2026-08-08T20:22:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/?p=2835"},"modified":"2026-08-08T22:16:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T22:16:36","slug":"markie-post-refused-to-let-the-disease-control-her-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/?p=2835","title":{"rendered":"Markie Post refused to let the disease control her life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Markie Post was one of my earliest TV crushes \u2013 she was the epitome of grace and class, with such a kind spirit to match.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-main.newsner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/03\/05190523\/markie1.jpg\" width=\"810\" height=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sadly, Markie passed away in 2021 at the age of 70<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>During her last years in life, the beloved actress fought a terrible battle to stay alive<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Night Cour<\/em>t\u00a0was the kind of show that kept you laughing from start to finish, and one of the biggest stars of the \u201980s series was the stunning Markie Post.<\/p>\n<p>As Public Defender Christine Sullivan on the beloved NBC\u00a0sitcom, Markie reached new heights in her acting career \u2013 she played the character for 159 episodes until 1992.<\/p>\n<p>To me, it felt like Markie had the whole package \u2013\u00a0she had the brains, beauty, spunk, talent, and charisma. Kids who grew up in the late 1970s &amp; 1980s know what I\u2019m talking about \u2013<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>you could always see the light in her eyes, that\u2019s where her real stardom was!<\/p>\n<p>I also loved her in\u00a0<em>Chicago P.D.<\/em>, where she appeared as Barbara \u2018Bunny\u2019 Fletcher from 2014 to 2017. Markie managed to turn that recurring role into a major standout, showing everyone that she was pure class.<\/p>\n<p>Markie Post was born in 1950 and had a privileged upbringing. She spent her childhood in Walnut Creek, California \u2013 her father was a nuclear physicist, and her mom was a poet. The actress was actually born Marjorie Post, but started using the name \u201cMarkie\u201d when she was a kid because her siblings struggled to pronounce Marjorie.<\/p>\n<p>In high school, she was a cheerleader. She studied physics in college, mainly as a result of her academic upbringing, but by her own admission, Markie \u201ddid quite poorly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Markie Post was one of my earliest TV crushes \u2013 she was the epitome of grace and class, with such a kind spirit to match. Sadly, Markie&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mdrssa_facebook_image":"","_mdrssa_unique_id":"","_mdrssa_normalized_url":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2835"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2888,"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions\/2888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}