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Annie Potts

Born 1952-10-28
📍 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–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 100

Toy Story 5
as Bo Peep (voice)
2026
Best Medicine
as Aunt Joan
2026
Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage
as Connie Tucker
2024
Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage
as Meemaw
2024
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
as Janine Melnitz
2024
Sherri
as Self - Guest
2022
The Jennifer Hudson Show
as Self
2022
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
as Janine Melnitz
2021
I Heart Arlo
as Edmee (voice)
2021
Arlo the Alligator Boy
as Edmée (voice)
2021
Reunited Apart
as Self
2020
Stars in the House
as Self
2020
Lamp Life
as Bo Peep (voice)
2020
Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters
as Self
2020
The Movies That Made Us
as Janine Melnitz (archive footage)
2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
2019
Toy Story 4
as Bo Peep (voice)
2019
Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town
as Mary
2018
Happy Anniversary
as Diane
2018
Young Sheldon
as Connie Tucker
2017
Humor Me
as Dee
2017
Ghostbusters
as Desk Clerk
2016
Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond
as Self
2015
Chicago Med
as Helen
2015
As Good As You
as Dr. Laura Berg
2015
NCIS: New Orleans
as Olivia Brody
2014
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
as Self
2014
Chu and Blossom
as Aunt
2014
Instant Mom
as Roberta Montgomery
2013
The Fosters
as Sharon Elkin
2013
Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja
as Tawny Zingwald (voice)
2012
Animal Practice
as Virginia Coleman
2012
The Music Teacher
as Alyson/Young Alyson
2012
Scandal
as Louise Baker
2012
GCB
as Gigi Stopper
2012
Five
as Helen
2011
Marry Me
as Vivienne Carter
2010
The Talk
as Self
2010
Fish Hooks
as Nurse Fishington (voice)
2010
Don't You Forget About Me
as Self
2010
Freshman Father
as Dorothy Downs
2010
Royal Pains
as Mrs. Sacani
2009
Queen Sized
as Joan Baker
2008
The Sunday Man
as Mrs. Culp
2007
Ugly Betty
as Linda
2006
Men in Trees
as Mary Alice O'Donnell
2006
Close to Home
as Dr. Marla Dodds
2005
Grey's Anatomy
as Joyce Bosco
2005
Boston Legal
as Joy Espenson
2004
Elvis Has Left the Building
as Shirl
2004
Joan of Arcadia
as Lieutenant Lucy Preston
2003
Two and a Half Men
as Lenore
2003
The Designing Women Reunion
2003
Defending Our Kids: The Julie Posey Story
as Julie Posey
2003
Toy Story 2
as Bo Peep (voice)
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Sophie Devere
1999
Any Day Now
as Mary Elizabeth Sims
1998
Over the Top
as Hadley Martin
1997
The View
as Self
1997
The Story Behind 'Toy Story'
as Self
1996
Dangerous Minds
as Louanne Johnson
1996
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
as Self
1996
Making 'Toy Story'
as Narrator
1995
Toy Story
as Bo Peep (voice)
1995
Her Deadly Rival
as Kris Lansford
1995
Meggamorphosis
as The Egg
1993
Breaking the Rules
as Mary Klinglitch
1992
Love & War
as Dana Palladino
1992
Texasville
as Karla Jackson
1990
Hanna-Barbera's 50th
as Self - Host
1989
Ghostbusters II
as Janine Melnitz
1989
Who's Harry Crumb?
as Helen Downing
1989
Pass the Ammo
as Darla
1988
She's Having a Baby
as Annie Potts (uncredited)
1988
The Man Who Fell to Earth
as Louise
1987
Jumpin' Jack Flash
as Liz Carlson
1986
Designing Women
as Mary Jo Shively
1986
Pretty in Pink
as Iona
1986
Bayou Romance
as Lily
1986
Amazing Stories
as Mrs. Bev Binford (voice)
1985
The Twilight Zone
as (segment "Wordplay")
1985
Lime Street
1985
The Comedy Factory
as Annie
1985
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
as Cindy Mills
1984
Crimes of Passion
as Amy Grady
1984
Ghostbusters
as Janine Melnitz
1984
Why Me?
as Daria
1984
Cowboy
as D.G.
1983
Something So Right
as Sunday
1982
Remington Steele
as Annie Carpenter
1982
Heartaches
as Bonnie Howard
1981
Magnum, P.I.
as Tracy Spencer
1980
The Scarlett O'Hara War
as Betty (uncredited)
1980
Goodtime Girls
as Edith Bedelmeyer
1980
Black Market Baby
as Linda Cleary
1979
Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers
as Flatbed Annie
1979
King of the Gypsies
as Persa
1978
Corvette Summer
as Vanessa
1978
People's Choice Awards
as Self - Host
1975
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962