Markie Post

Markie Post grew-up in Walnut Creek. She began her career as a film and TV producer, including "The New Card Sharks", (1978), and "Card Sharks" (1986). She was later able to create projects such as Double Dare (1976), and has appeared on many television shows like E! True Hollywood Story (1996), Electra Woman (2001) as well as Dyna Girl (2001). Perhaps she is most well-known for her part in "Christine Sullivan" as the Night Court star (1984). She was featured in the show's 156 episodes, from 1984 to 1992. Marylee (Armstrong) Post was her mother. She is an accomplished poet and nuclear scientist Richard Freeman Post (November 14 1918-April 7, 2015). With her second husband Michael A. Ross, she had two children: Katie Ross (born June 26 in 1986) and Daisy Ross (30 March 1990). Born in Palo Alto, California and raised in Walnut Creek. She was a cheerleader at Las Lomas High School, Walnut Creek, California. Lewis & Clark College in Portland Oregon awarded her a Bachelor of Arts degree. She was an act in The Wildest West Show of the Stars (1986). Her ashes were returned home to Michael A. Ross, her husband. She was a lifetime Democrat. Markie Post died three months following her 71st Birthday, August 7 2021. She was 27 days away from Charles Robinson, Night Court (1984) and the co-star of which she passed away on July 11 in 2020. Though the two shows are completely different, Night Court (1984) ended in 1992 with her character Christine Sullivan, leaving for Washington DC, and Hearts Afire (1992) began in the same year, with Post playing a new character, Georgie Lahti, who had a chance to work in Washington DC (and later moving to a more rural town).