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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1952-10-28 (72 years old)

Place of Birth

Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Annie Potts

Biography:

Anne Hampton Potts (born October 28, 1952) is an American actress. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Corvette Summer (1978) and won a Genie Award for Heartaches (1981), before appearing in Ghostbusters (1984), Pretty in Pink (1986), Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986), Who's Harry Crumb? (1989), Ghostbusters II (1989), Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024). She voiced Bo Peep in the first, second and fourth films of the Toy Story franchise (1995, 1999, and 2019) and in various Disney video games.

On television, she played Mary Jo Jackson Shively on the CBS sitcom Designing Women (1986–1993). She was nominated for a 1994 Primetime Emmy Award for playing Dana Palladino on the CBS sitcom Love & War (1993–1995), she played teacher Louanne Johnson on ABC drama Dangerous Minds for one season 1996–1997, and was nominated for Screen Actors Guild Awards in 1998 and 1999 for playing Mary-Elizabeth "M.E" Sims in the Lifetime drama series Any Day Now (1998–2002). Her other television credits include GCB (2012), The Fosters (2013–2018), and Young Sheldon (2017–present).

She was married to her 1st husband Steven Hartley from 1973 to 1978; her 2nd husband, actor Greg Antonacci from 1978 to 1980; and her 3rd husband Scott Senechal from 1981 to 1989, and they have 1 son. She married her 4th husband, director/producer James Hayman in 1990 and they have 2 sons. ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Known For

Acting

2024

2022

Sherri as Self - Guest

2021

Ghostbusters: Afterlife as Janine Melnitz
Arlo the Alligator Boy as Edmée (voice)
I Heart Arlo as Edmee (voice)

2020

2019

Toy Story 4 as Bo Peep (voice)
The Movies That Made Us as Janine Melnitz (archive footage)

2018

2017

Humor Me as Dee
Young Sheldon as Connie Tucker

2016

Ghostbusters as Desk Clerk

2015

2014

2013

The Fosters as Sharon Elkin

2012

The Music Teacher as Alyson/Young Alyson
GCB as Gigi Stopper
Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja as Tawny Zingwald (voice)
Scandal as Louise Baker
Animal Practice as Virginia Coleman

2011

Five as Helen

2010

Freshman Father as Dorothy Downs
Marry Me as Vivienne Carter
The Talk as Self
Fish Hooks as Nurse Fishington (voice)

2009

Royal Pains as Mrs. Sacani

2008

Queen Sized as Joan Baker

2007

The Sunday Man as Mrs. Culp

2006

2005

Grey's Anatomy as Joyce Bosco

2004

2003

1999

Toy Story 2 as Bo Peep (voice)

1998

Any Day Now as Mary Elizabeth Sims

1997

The View as Self
Over the Top as Hadley Martin

1996

1995

Toy Story as Bo Peep (voice)
Her Deadly Rival as Kris Lansford
Making 'Toy Story' as Narrator

1992

Breaking the Rules as Mary Klinglitch
Love & War as Dana Palladino

1990

Texasville as Karla Jackson

1989

Ghostbusters II as Janine Melnitz
Who's Harry Crumb? as Helen Downing
Hanna-Barbera's 50th as Self - Host

1988

Pass the Ammo as Darla
She's Having a Baby as Annie Potts (uncredited)
Family Dog as Mrs. Bev Binford

1987

1986

Jumpin' Jack Flash as Liz Carlson
Designing Women as Mary Jo Shively

1985

Amazing Stories as Mrs. Bev Binford (voice)
The Twilight Zone as (segment "Wordplay")

1984

Ghostbusters as Janine Melnitz
Crimes of Passion as Amy Grady
Why Me? as Daria

1983

Cowboy as D.G.

1982

Remington Steele as Annie Carpenter

1981

Heartaches as Bonnie Howard

1980

The Scarlett O'Hara War as Betty (uncredited)
Magnum, P.I. as Tracy Spencer
Goodtime Girls as Edith Bedelmeyer

1979

1978

1977

1962

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