Loanne Bishop


Loanne Bishop is an American actress, of film and television.
Bishop was raised in Denver, Colorado. Her father was a Mennonite minister and her mother was a teacher. She first attended Denver University, where she was a theatre major, then transferred to the University of Colorado, where she was a German major.

Career

Loanne Bishop moved to Los Angeles in 1978; she worked as a singing waitress for several months. She was the lead in the independently-produced film The Wisdom Barrier.
Bishop appeared on Kate Loves a Mystery and Barnaby Jones. Bishop played the character of Rose Kelly in the TV daytime soap opera General Hospital from 1980 until 1984. In 1984, she was nominated for the Daytime Emmy Award as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. During her time on General Hospital, she made appearances at various events. Bishop, a mezzo soprano who can pay the violin, performed on the album Love in the Afternoon with other soap opera stars. She did not want to sign a long-term contract for the show.
In 1985, Bishop was in Hostage Flight, she played a flight attendant.
She appeared on Hill Street Blues in 1987.

Personal life

She dated Peter Bergman in the 1980s.

Filmography