Annie Potts
Known for: Acting
Born: October 28, 1952
Place of birth: Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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
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Filmography
55 movies · 47 TV shows, newest first
8.3
Toy Story 5
2026
6.8
40 Dates and 40 Nights
2026
7.2
Best Medicine
2026
8.0
Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage
2024
6.4
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
2024
2.6
Sherri
2022
5.6
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
7.3
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
2021
5.1
I Heart Arlo
2021
6.8
Arlo the Alligator Boy
2021
5.5
Reunited Apart
2020
NR
Stars in the House
2020
7.1
Lamp Life
2020
6.9
Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters
2020
7.3
The Movies That Made Us
2019
6.3
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
7.5
Toy Story 4
2019
5.3
Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town
2018
5.8
Happy Anniversary
2018
8.0
Young Sheldon
2017
5.7
Humor Me
2017
5.3
Ghostbusters
2016
7.1
Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond
2015
8.3
Chicago Med
2015
4.3
As Good As You
2015
7.3
NCIS: New Orleans
2014
7.0
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
2014
4.0
Chu and Blossom
2014
8.2
Instant Mom
2013
7.5
The Fosters
2013
8.2
Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja
2012
5.4
Animal Practice
2012
5.0
The Music Teacher
2012
7.2
Scandal
2012
6.2
GCB
2012
7.1
Five
2011
6.8
Marry Me
2010
3.0
The Talk
2010
6.4
Fish Hooks
2010
5.3
Don't You Forget About Me
2010
6.6
Freshman Father
2010
6.8
Royal Pains
2009
4.8
Queen Sized
2008
7.0
The Sunday Man
2007
6.4
Ugly Betty
2006
6.6
Men in Trees
2006
5.9
Close to Home
2005
8.2
Grey's Anatomy
2005
7.9
Boston Legal
2004
5.3
Elvis Has Left the Building
2004
7.3
Joan of Arcadia
2003
7.5
Two and a Half Men
2003
NR
The Designing Women Reunion
2003
7.0
Defending Our Kids: The Julie Posey Story
2003
7.6
Toy Story 2
1999
8.0
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
7.5
Any Day Now
1998
NR
Amazing Stories: The Movie III
1998
7.5
Over the Top
1997
4.3
The View
1997
7.5
The Story Behind 'Toy Story'
1996
8.7
Dangerous Minds
1996
4.1
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
6.3
The Making of Toy Story
1995
8.0
Toy Story
1995
5.3
Her Deadly Rival
1995
NR
Meggamorphosis
1993
5.3
Breaking the Rules
1992
6.4
Love & War
1992
6.0
Texasville
1990
9.1
Hanna-Barbera's 50th
1989
6.6
Ghostbusters II
1989
6.0
Who's Harry Crumb?
1989
4.8
Pass the Ammo
1988
5.9
She's Having a Baby
1988
5.6
The Man Who Fell to Earth
1987
6.1
Jumpin' Jack Flash
1986
6.8
Designing Women
1986
6.7
Pretty in Pink
1986
NR
Bayou Romance
1986
7.5
Amazing Stories
1985
7.7
The Twilight Zone
1985
6.0
Lime Street
1985
NR
The Comedy Factory
1985
5.9
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
1984
6.3
Crimes of Passion
1984
7.5
Ghostbusters
1984
5.6
Why Me?
1984
NR
Cowboy
1983
5.9
Something So Right
1982
7.1
Remington Steele
1982
5.6
Heartaches
1981
7.3
Magnum, P.I.
1980
6.2
The Scarlett O'Hara War
1980
6.5
Goodtime Girls
1980
6.3
Black Market Baby
1979
5.2
Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers
1979
5.9
King of the Gypsies
1978
5.5
Corvette Summer
19786.3
Busting Loose
1977
9.2
People's Choice Awards
1975
7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962