Markie Post

Markie Post grew-up in Walnut Creek. She began her professional career as a television and film producer, with projects like "The New Card Sharks", (1978) and "Card Sharks" (1986). Post continued to produce projects like Double Dare (1976), and appeared on various television shows such as E! True Hollywood Story (1996), Electra Woman (2001) as well as Dyna Girl (2001). Her most memorable TV performance was as "Christine Sullivan" in Night Court (1984). She was in an entire 156 episodes of this show, 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). Had two daughters with her husband, Michael A. Ross: Katie Ross (born June 26 1987) and Daisy Ross (born March 30 and died on March 30, 1990). Born in Palo Alto in California and was raised in Walnut Creek. As an athletics coach, she attended Las Lomas High School located in Walnut Creek. Lewis & Clark College in Portland Oregon awarded her a Bachelor of Arts degree. She performed trick roping at The Wildest West Show of the Stars (1986). She was cremated and her ashes were returned to Michael A. Ross. She was a lifetime Democrat. Markie Post passed away on the 7th of August in 2021. She died three months away from what would have been her 71st birthday, which was on November 4. She died just 27 days after Charles Robinson, her Night Court (1984) co-star who passed away on the 11th of July 2021. Although the two shows were completely unrelated, Night Court (1984) ended in 1992 , with her character Christine Sullivan, leaving for Washington DC, and Hearts Afire (1992) began later that year , with Post portraying a brand new character, Georgie Lahti, who coincidentally worked in Washington DC (and later moving to a smaller town).