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Annie Potts
Annie Potts

Annie Potts

ActingBorn October 28, 1952 (age 73)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

Filmography

2026
Toy Story 5

as Bo Peep (voice)

Movie
2026Movie
2026
Best Medicine

as Aunt Joan

TV
2024TV
2024Movie
2022
Sherri

as Self - Guest

TV
2021
Ghostbusters: Afterlife

as Janine Melnitz

Movie
2021
I Heart Arlo

as Edmee (voice)

TV
2021
Arlo the Alligator Boy

as Edmée (voice)

Movie
2020TV
2020TV
2020
Lamp Life

as Bo Peep (voice)

Movie
2019
The Movies That Made Us

as Janine Melnitz (archive footage)

TV
2019
Toy Story 4

as Bo Peep (voice)

Movie
2018Movie
2017
Young Sheldon

as Connie Tucker

TV
2017
Humor Me

as Dee

Movie
2016
Ghostbusters

as Desk Clerk

Movie
2015
Chicago Med

as Helen

TV
2015
As Good As You

as Dr. Laura Berg

Movie
2014
NCIS: New Orleans

as Olivia Brody

TV
2014Movie
2013
Instant Mom

as Roberta Montgomery

TV
2013
The Fosters

as Sharon Elkin

TV
2012
Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja

as Tawny Zingwald (voice)

TV
2012
Animal Practice

as Virginia Coleman

TV
2012
The Music Teacher

as Alyson/Young Alyson

Movie
2012
Scandal

as Louise Baker

TV
2012
GCB

as Gigi Stopper

TV
2011
Five

as Helen

Movie
2010
Marry Me

as Vivienne Carter

TV
2010
The Talk

as Self

TV
2010
Fish Hooks

as Nurse Fishington (voice)

TV
2010
Freshman Father

as Dorothy Downs

Movie
2009
Royal Pains

as Mrs. Sacani

TV
2008
Queen Sized

as Joan Baker

Movie
2007
The Sunday Man

as Mrs. Culp

Movie
2006
Ugly Betty

as Linda

TV
2006
Men in Trees

as Mary Alice O'Donnell

TV
2005
Close to Home

as Marla Dodds

TV
2005
Grey's Anatomy

as Joyce Bosco

TV
2004
Boston Legal

as Joy Espenson

TV
2003
Joan of Arcadia

as Lieutenant Lucy Preston

TV
2003TV
1999
Toy Story 2

as Bo Peep (voice)

Movie
1999TV
1998
Any Day Now

as Mary Elizabeth Sims

TV
1997
Over the Top

as Hadley Martin

TV
1997
The View

as Self

TV
1996
Dangerous Minds

as Louanne Johnson

TV
1995Movie
1995
Toy Story

as Bo Peep (voice)

Movie
1995
Her Deadly Rival

as Kris Lansford

Movie
1993
Meggamorphosis

as The Egg

Movie
1992
Breaking the Rules

as Mary Klinglitch

Movie
1992
Love & War

as Dana Palladino

TV
1990
Texasville

as Karla Jackson

Movie
1989
Hanna-Barbera's 50th

as Self - Host

Movie
1989
Ghostbusters II

as Janine Melnitz

Movie
1989
Who's Harry Crumb?

as Helen Downing

Movie
1988Movie
1988
She's Having a Baby

as Annie Potts (uncredited)

Movie
1987Movie
1986
Jumpin' Jack Flash

as Liz Carlson

Movie
1986
Designing Women

as Mary Jo Shively

TV
1986Movie
1986Movie
1985
Amazing Stories

as Mrs. Bev Binford (voice)

TV
1985
The Twilight Zone

as (segment "Wordplay")

TV
1985TV
1984Movie
1984
Crimes of Passion

as Amy Grady

Movie
1984
Ghostbusters

as Janine Melnitz

Movie
1984
Why Me?

as Daria

Movie
1983
Cowboy

as D.G.

Movie
1982Movie
1982
Remington Steele

as Annie Carpenter

TV
1981
Heartaches

as Bonnie Howard

Movie
1980
Magnum, P.I.

as Tracy Spencer

TV
1980
The Scarlett O'Hara War

as Betty (uncredited)

Movie
1980
Goodtime Girls

as Edith Bedelmeyer

TV
1979
Black Market Baby

as Linda Cleary

Movie
1978Movie
1978
Corvette Summer

as Vanessa

Movie
1975TV

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayOctober 28, 1952
Place of BirthNashville, Tennessee, USA
Popularity3.0