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Annie Potts

 
Actor: Annie Potts
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  • Born: Oct 28, 1952 in Nashville, Tennessee
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '80s-2000s
  • Major Genres: Comedy, Drama
  • Career Highlights: Pretty in Pink, Ghostbusters, Texasville
  • First Major Screen Credit: Corvette Summer (1978)

Biography

Involved in amateur theatricals since childhood, Annie Potts received her BFA in theatre arts from Missouri's Stephens College. Potts has been seen in comic supporting roles in films since 1978; she is most closely associated with the part of ditzy secretary Janine Melnitz in the two Ghostbusters flicks of the 1980s. On television, Potts has played Edith Bedelmeyer on the one-season sitcom Goodtime Girls (1980), then enjoyed a longer run as Mary Jo Shively on Designing Women (1986-93). Her characterization of outspoken gourmet chef Dana Paladino on the prime time sitcom Love and War won Annie an Emmy nomination in 1994. Annie Potts has also been featured in a popular series of commercials for a well-known corn-chip product, and has served as national spokesperson for the Women for Arthritis Foundation. In 1996 she was cast as a no-nonsense schoolteacher of troubled inner-city high schoolers in the ABC-TV show Dangerous Minds, a series based on the 1995 Michelle Pfeiffer film of the same name. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Annie Potts

Annie Potts at the Governor's Ball following the 41st Annual Emmy Awards, 1989. Photo by Alan Light.
Born Anne Hampton Potts
October 28, 1952 (1952-10-28) (age 57)
Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Occupation Actress
Years active 1976–present
Spouse(s) Steven Hartley (1973–1978)
Greg Antonacci (1978–1980)
B. Scott Senechal (1981–1989) 1 child
James Hayman (1990–present) 2 children

Anne Hampton "Annie" Potts (born October 28, 1952) is an American television and film actress.

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Early life

She was born Anne Hampton Potts in Nashville, Tennessee,[1] and grew up in Franklin, Kentucky, where she graduated from Franklin-Simpson High School. She is the daughter of Powell Grisette Potts and Dorothy Harris (Billingslea) Potts and has two older sisters, Mary Eleanor (Potts) Hovious, and Elizabeth Grissette ("Dollie") Potts. She received a Bachelor in Fine Arts degree (in theater arts) from Stephens College in Missouri.

Career

Potts is probably best known for playing the role of Janine Melnitz in the Ghostbusters films and for the television sitcom Designing Women, but has had a wide variety of prominent roles in both television and film. Other notable roles include Mary Elizabeth (O'Brien) Sims on the Lifetime Television show Any Day Now, the voice of Little Bo Peep in the Toy Story films, a supporting role in the John Hughes drama Pretty in Pink, and a guest-starring role on the CBS drama Joan of Arcadia.

She has done work on audio books, including as the narrator and heroine of Larry McMurtry's "Telegraph Days." She starred in the film version of McMurtry's Texasville, a sequel to The Last Picture Show. She guest starred on Two and a Half Men in October 2009 as Judith Melnick's mother. She is currently set to star in The Karenskys, to be released in 2009.

She will be making her Broadway debut upon joining the cast of the Tony Award-winning play God of Carnage on November 17, 2009, replacing actress Hope Davis. [2]

Personal life

Potts is married to television director James Hayman and is the mother of three sons, Clay (born 1981), James (called Doc, born 1992), and Harry (born 1996). She is a Board Member of Stephens College, and has been instrumental in fundraising efforts for the college for many years. Potts is currently a visiting professor of Drama at the school.

Filmography

Film

Television

  • Black Market Baby (1977)
  • Family (1 episode, 1978)
  • Ladies in Waiting (1979)
  • Goodtime Girls (1 episode, 1980)
  • The Kwicky Koala Show (1981; voice only)
  • Something So Right (1982)
  • Remington Steele (1 episode, 1983)
  • Cowboy (1983)
  • Magnum, P.I. (2 episodes, 1983-1986)
  • Why Me? (1984)
  • It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (1984)
  • The Twilight Zone (1 episode, 1985)
  • Comedy Factory (1 episode, 1986)
  • Designing Women (151 episodes, 1986-1993)
  • The Man Who Fell to Earth (1987)
  • CBS Schoolbreak Special (1 episode, 1987)
  • Amazing Stories (1 episode, 1987)
  • WitchBoard (1988)
  • The Ultimate Driving Challenge (1993)
  • Love & War (unknown episodes, 1993-1995)
  • Her Deadly Rival (1995)
  • Fifty Years of Funny Females (1995)
  • Dangerous Minds (unknown episodes, 1996)
  • Over the Top (3 episodes, 1997)
  • Any Day Now (88 episodes, 1998-2002)
  • Hercules (1 episode, 1998)
  • Defending Our Kids: The Julie Posey Story (2003)
  • Stuck in the Middle with You (2003)
  • Joan of Arcadia (11 episodes, 2004-2005)
  • Huff (4 episodes, 2004)
  • Close To Home (1 episode, 2005)
  • Law & Order: SVU (3 episodes, 2005-2007)
  • Julie Reno, Bounty Hunter (1 episode, 2006)
  • Spellbound (2007)
  • Men In Trees (4 episodes, 2007)
  • Boston Legal (2 episodes, 2008)
  • Ugly Betty (1 episode, 2008)
  • Family Man (2008)
  • Single with Parents (2008)
  • Queen Sized (2008)
  • Two and a Half Men (2009)

References

  1. ^ Allport, Brandy Hilboldt (2006-10-28). "A.M.Stir". The Florida Times-Union. http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/102806/lif_5772890.shtml. 
  2. ^ http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/64431827.html

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