Hollywood Squares
2025 · TV Show
as Self
Loni Love
1967-07-14
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Detroit, Michigan, USA
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Loni Love (born July 14, 1967) is an American comedian, Emmy and NAACP Image Award-winning talk show host, actress, TV personality, author, and former electrical engineer. After graduating high school, she worked for a time on the General Motors assembly line putting doors on 1993 Oldsmobile Cutlasses, work which ignited her interest in electrical engineering. She then received her bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Prairie View A&M University in Texas. She started doing stand-up during her college years. She found work as an engineer at Xerox in California and she continued to do stand-up after work in clubs and became a regular at the Laugh Factory. After eight years of working at Xerox, Love resigned to pursue comedy during a layoff to prevent someone else from losing their job. Love did a series on VH1 called I Love the 2000s in which she gives her view on pop culture highlights. She was also a panelist in the late-night talk show Chelsea Lately. Love also appeared in an episode of Supermarket Sweep on July 24, 2000. Love started her comedic career in 2003, after appearing on Star Search, reaching the finals and was chosen runner-up in a close competition to winner John Roy. She was awarded the Jury Prize for best stand-up at the 2003 US Comedy Arts Festival. Since then, she has appeared in films and numerous television shows. In 2008 Love became the CNN correspondent for D. L. Hughley Breaks the News and covered the inauguration of President Barack Obama. Love was named "Hot Comic" for 2009 in Campus Activity magazine and one of the "Top 10 Comics to Watch" in both Variety and Comedy Central. In late 2009, Love recorded her first one-hour Comedy Central special, America's Sister, which aired on May 8, 2010. In July 2013, she released her first comedy advice book titled "Love Him Or Leave Him But Don't Get Stuck With The Tab". From July 15, 2013 to June 3, 2022, Love served as one of the co-hosts of the syndicated daytime talk show The Real originally alongside Adrienne Bailon, Tamar Braxton, Jeannie Mai, and Tamera Mowry. In 2018, Love and her Real co-hosts won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host for their work. In 2015, she appeared in the comedy film Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2, with Kevin James, and the action film Bad Asses on the Bayou, with Danny Trejo and Danny Glover. In 2016, she appeared as a contestant on the ninth season of Worst Cooks in America, competing for $50,000 for her chosen charity. In 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, Love hosts a show on Instagram Live under the hashtag #quarantinewithloni. Since January 2021, Love has been a recurring guest judge on Season 13 of Rupaul's Drag Race.
Filmography
After Midnight
2024 · TV Show
as Self
Binged to Death
2023 · Movie
as Kristen
About Last Night
2022 · TV Show
as Self
Is It Cake?
2022 · TV Show
as Self - Judge
So Dumb It's Criminal Hosted by Snoop Dogg
2022 · TV Show
as Self
Sherri
2022 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
The Real Dirty Dancing
2022 · TV Show
as Self - Contestant
Criss Angel's Magic with the Stars
2022 · TV Show
as Self - Judge
The Wheel
2022 · TV Show
as Self - Expert
Pictionary
2022 · TV Show
Celebrity Beef
2022 · TV Show
2021 and Done with Snoop Dogg & Kevin Hart
2021 · Movie
as Self
Turning the Tables with Robin Roberts
2021 · TV Show
as Self
Name That Tune
2021 · TV Show
as Self - Contestant
Home Town: Ben's Workshop
2021 · TV Show
as Loni Love
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
2021 · TV Show
as Self - Contestant
Overserved with Lisa Vanderpump
2021 · TV Show
as Self
I Can See Your Voice
2020 · TV Show
Secret Celebrity RuPaul's Drag Race
2020 · TV Show
as Mary J. Ross - Contestant
Adopt a Highway
2019 · Movie
as Cher
Tamron Hall
2019 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
A Black Lady Sketch Show
2019 · TV Show
as Fuega
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019 · TV Show
as Self
RuPaul
2019 · TV Show
as Self
Meghan Markle: An American Princess
2018 · Movie
as Self
25 Words or Less
2018 · TV Show
as Self
Mother's Day
2016 · Movie
as Kimberly
To Tell the Truth
2016 · TV Show
as Self - Panelist
Match Game
2016 · TV Show
as Self - Panelist
Kevin Can Wait
2016 · TV Show
as Yvette
Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry
2016 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
Bad Asses on the Bayou
2015 · Movie
as Carmen Gutierrez
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
2015 · Movie
as Donna Ericone
World's Funniest Fails
2015 · TV Show
as Self - Panelist
Gutshot Straight
2014 · Movie
as Ms. Love
Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses
2014 · Movie
as Carmen
The Real
2014 · TV Show
as Host
Beat Bobby Flay
2013 · TV Show
as Self
Bethenny
2012 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
Gotham Comedy Live
2012 · TV Show
as Self - Hostess
Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension
2011 · Movie
as Carl in Disguise (voice)
Kickin' It
2011 · TV Show
as Marge
Whitney
2011 · TV Show
as Nurse
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Loni Love: America's Sister
2010 · Movie
as Herself
Worst Cooks in America
2010 · TV Show
as Self - Contestant
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The Great Debate
2009 · TV Show
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Comedy.tv
2009 · TV Show
as Self - Host, Self
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
RuPaul's Drag Race
2009 · TV Show
as Self - Guest Judge
The Axis of Evil Comedy Tour
2007 · Movie
as Airport Security
Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide: Field Trips, Permission Slips, Signs, and Weasels
2007 · Movie
as Lunchlady
I Love the '70s: Volume 2
2006 · TV Show
as Self
Cuts
2005 · TV Show
Hell's Kitchen
2005 · TV Show
as Self - Restaurant Patron
American Dad!
2005 · TV Show
as Iris (voice)
Soul Plane
2004 · Movie
as Shaniece
Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
2004 · TV Show
as Rose, the Lunch Lady
With or Without You
2003 · Movie
as Waitress
Girlfriends
2000 · TV Show
as Woman
Comedy Central Presents
1998 · TV Show
