Annie Potts
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Annie Potts

Born 28 October 1952 · Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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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 (2017–2024). 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

Toy Story
Toy Story 2
Toy Story 4
Grey's Anatomy
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Ghostbusters II
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Two and a Half Men
Young Sheldon
Toy Story 5
40 Dates and 40 Nights
Toy Story 5
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Arlo the Alligator Boy
Lamp Life
Toy Story 4
Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town
Happy Anniversary
Humor Me
Ghostbusters
As Good As You
Chu and Blossom
The Music Teacher
Five
Freshman Father
Queen Sized
The Sunday Man
Elvis Has Left the Building
Defending Our Kids: The Julie Posey Story
The Designing Women Reunion
Toy Story 2
Amazing Stories: The Movie III
Toy Story
Her Deadly Rival
The Making of Toy Story
Meggamorphosis
Breaking the Rules
Texasville
Ghostbusters II
Who's Harry Crumb?
Pass the Ammo
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Pretty in Pink
Bayou Romance
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Ghostbusters
Crimes of Passion
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
Why Me?
Cowboy
Something So Right
Heartaches
Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers
Black Market Baby
King of the Gypsies
Corvette Summer
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