
Annie Potts
Acting
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).
Known For

Grey's Anatomy

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Boston Legal

The View

Young Sheldon

Two and a Half Men

Chicago Med

Royal Pains

Scandal

Magnum, P.I.

NCIS: New Orleans

The Twilight Zone

The Fosters

Amazing Stories

Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage

Ugly Betty

Remington Steele

Toy Story

Fish Hooks

Joan of Arcadia

Toy Story 2

Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja

Toy Story 4

The Movies That Made Us

Ghostbusters

Ghostbusters

Ghostbusters II

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

Pretty in Pink
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