Annie Potts

Annie Potts

Birthday: 1952-10-28

Place of Birth: Nashville, Tennessee, USA

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

Movies

Toy Story 2
Toy Story 2

Andy heads off to Cowboy Camp, leaving his toys to their own devices. Things shift into high gear wh...

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Toy Story
Toy Story

Led by Woody, Andy's toys live happily in his room until Andy's birthday brings Buzz Lightyear onto ...

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Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters

After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into...

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Ghostbusters II
Ghostbusters II

The discovery of a massive river of ectoplasm and a resurgence of spectral activity allows the staff...

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King of the Gypsies
King of the Gypsies

Zharko, leader of the Romanis in NYC, passes his position of leadership on to his unwilling grandso...

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Pretty in Pink
Pretty in Pink

Andie is an outcast, hanging out either with her older boss, who owns the record store where she wor...

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Who's Harry Crumb?
Who's Harry Crumb?

Harry Crumb is a bumbling and inept private investigator who is hired to solve the kidnapping of a y...

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Corvette Summer
Corvette Summer

Ken loves to design and build exotic cars. When the High School shop class project car, a fully tric...

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Crimes of Passion
Crimes of Passion

Fashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who's at...

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Don't You Forget About Me
Don't You Forget About Me

Throughout the ’80s John Hughes defined the teen movie genre and spoke not only to that generation’s...

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Elvis Has Left the Building
Elvis Has Left the Building

Harmony had an encounter early in life with the young Elvis, and can't seem to shake his influence. ...

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It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

Retired cop Mike Halligan decides to show his grandson, who has never seen snow before, what a real ...

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Texasville
Texasville

Summer, 1984: 30 years after Duane captained the high school football team and Jacy was homecoming q...

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Queen Sized
Queen Sized

Maggie Baker has a weight problem, and her high school classmates won't let her forget it. They sham...

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Pass the Ammo
Pass the Ammo

A corrupt television preacher and his congregation are held hostage by a woman, her lover, and her t...

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Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers
Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers

This engaging made-for-television movie follows the adventures of Ginny "Sweetie Pie" LaRosa (Kim Da...

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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

When the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must joi...

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The Music Teacher
The Music Teacher

Music Teacher revolves around Alyson Daley (Potts), a high school music teacher who is on the brink ...

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Defending Our Kids: The Julie Posey Story
Defending Our Kids: The Julie Posey Story

After a paedophile approaches her daughter in an on-line chat room, a homemaker (Annie Potts) poses ...

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Freshman Father
Freshman Father

When high school sweethearts John and Kathy find out Kathy is pregnant, they decide to get married a...

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Why Me?
Why Me?

An Air Force nurse about to leave the service is badly disfigured about her face in a car accident i...

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The Man Who Fell to Earth
The Man Who Fell to Earth

An alien lands on Earth, and decides that he needs to a job in order to raise money to build a space...

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Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters
Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters

The documentary that tells us the full story from where it all started through to the future of the ...

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Chu and Blossom
Chu and Blossom

A militant performance-artist and a tall Korean foreign-exchange student become trapped in a small S...

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Her Deadly Rival
Her Deadly Rival

A man's life and marriage fall apart when he is stalked and harassed by a mysterious secret admirer ...

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Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey

Hal Holbrook's Mark Twain is an icon of American theater. Since first walking on stage in 1954, Holb...

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Making 'Toy Story'
Making 'Toy Story'

Documentary of the making of the groundbreaking Disney/Pixar animated hit movie....

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Cowboy
Cowboy

A man from the city returns to his small home town in the countryside to live like a farmer. He find...

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The Scarlett O'Hara War
The Scarlett O'Hara War

The trials and tribulations of David O. Selznick as he attempts to find an actress to play the role ...

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Bayou Romance
Bayou Romance

Lily, an energetic and charming artist, leaves the city life for a sprawling plantation she's inheri...

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Hanna-Barbera's 50th
Hanna-Barbera's 50th

The special is hosted by Tony Danza and Annie Potts celebrating 50 years of William Hanna and Joseph...

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The Sunday Man
The Sunday Man

The misadventures of a remarkably peculiar man, who has some very unusual ideas about who he is....

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Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town
Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town

A woman at rock bottom must find her way across Los Angeles in order to crash her ex-boyfriend's eng...

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Heartaches
Heartaches

A young wife becomes pregnant, but the child's father is not her husband. Afraid to tell him, she le...

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Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters

Following a ghost invasion of Manhattan, paranormal enthusiasts Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates, nuclear...

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Five
Five

An anthology of five short films exploring the impact of breast cancer on people's lives....

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The Designing Women Reunion
The Designing Women Reunion

This five principal original cast members (plus a handful of recurring guests) from the popular sitc...

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Happy Anniversary
Happy Anniversary

A quirky couple spends their three-year dating anniversary looking back at their relationship and co...

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Humor Me
Humor Me

With an interminable case of writer's block and a personal family crisis, playwright Nate is forced ...

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The Story Behind 'Toy Story'
The Story Behind 'Toy Story'

The documentary short of Toy Story of why and how the feature length blockbuster sleeper movie becam...

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As Good As You
As Good As You

Jo's world is thrown into utter disarray when her wife Amanda passes away and she starts chasing a d...

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She's Having a Baby
She's Having a Baby

Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full re...

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Black Market Baby
Black Market Baby

A young college girl becomes pregnant, and she and the baby's father are targeted by a black-market ...

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Jumpin' Jack Flash
Jumpin' Jack Flash

Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day, ...

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Toy Story 4
Toy Story 4

Woody has always been confident about his place in the world and that his priority is taking care of...

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Lamp Life
Lamp Life

Bo Peep explains what happened to herself and her sheep between the events of Toy Story 2 and Toy St...

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Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Ghostbusters: Afterlife

When single mom Callie and her two kids Trevor and Phoebe arrive in a small Oklahoma town, they begi...

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Breaking the Rules
Breaking the Rules

Two friends take their dying buddy on one last road trip....

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Arlo the Alligator Boy
Arlo the Alligator Boy

Upon learning that he is from New York City, a wide-eyed boy, who is half human and half alligator, ...

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Something So Right
Something So Right

Joey lives with his mother. His father isn't around, he doesn't like school, he is bored and doesn't...

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Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond
Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond

Retrospective looking at the revolutionary computer-animated feature film Toy Story....

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40 Dates and 40 Nights
40 Dates and 40 Nights

A struggling romantic accepts her aunt's wager: go on 40 dates in 40 nights to find true love. If sh...

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Family Dog
Family Dog

An Amazing Stories episode told in three vignettes theatrically released with The Land Before Time, ...

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