
Annie Potts
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
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Known For
Acting History
2026
Best Medicine as Aunt Joan
2024Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage as Connie Tucker
2024Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire as Janine Melnitz
2022The Jennifer Hudson Show as Self
2022Sherri as Self - Guest
2021Ghostbusters: Afterlife as Janine Melnitz
2021I Heart Arlo as Edmee (voice)
2021Arlo the Alligator Boy as Edmée (voice)
2020Reunited Apart as Self
2020Stars in the House as Self
2020Lamp Life as Bo Peep (voice)
2020Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters as Self
2019The Movies That Made Us as Janine Melnitz (archive footage)
2019Toy Story 4 as Bo Peep (voice)
2018Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town as Mary
2018Happy Anniversary as Diane
2017Young Sheldon as Connie Tucker
2017Humor Me as Dee
2016Ghostbusters as Desk Clerk
2015Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond as Self
2015Chicago Med as Helen
2015As Good As You as Dr. Laura Berg
2014NCIS: New Orleans as Olivia Brody
2014Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey as Self
2014Chu and Blossom as Aunt
2013Instant Mom as Roberta Montgomery
2013The Fosters as Sharon Elkin
2012Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja as Tawny Zingwald (voice)
2012Animal Practice as Virginia Coleman
2012The Music Teacher as Alyson/Young Alyson
2012Scandal as Louise Baker
2012GCB as Gigi Stopper
2011Five as Helen
2010Marry Me as Vivienne Carter
2010The Talk as Self
2010Fish Hooks as Nurse Fishington (voice)
2010Don't You Forget About Me as Self
2010Freshman Father as Dorothy Downs
2009Royal Pains as Mrs. Sacani
2008Queen Sized as Joan Baker
2007The Sunday Man as Mrs. Culp
2006Ugly Betty as Linda
2006Men in Trees as Mary Alice O'Donnell
2005Close to Home as Dr. Marla Dodds
2005Grey's Anatomy as Joyce Bosco
2004Boston Legal as Joy Espenson
2004Elvis Has Left the Building as Shirl
2003Joan of Arcadia as Lieutenant Lucy Preston
2003Two and a Half Men as Lenore
2003The Designing Women Reunion
2003Defending Our Kids: The Julie Posey Story as Julie Posey
1999Toy Story 2 as Bo Peep (voice)
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Sophie Devere
1998Any Day Now as Mary Elizabeth Sims
1997Over the Top as Hadley Martin
1997The View as Self
1996The Story Behind 'Toy Story' as Self
1996Dangerous Minds as Louanne Johnson
1996The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self
1995Making 'Toy Story' as Narrator
1995Toy Story as Bo Peep (voice)
1995Her Deadly Rival as Kris Lansford
1992Breaking the Rules as Mary Klinglitch
1992Love & War as Dana Palladino
1990Texasville as Karla Jackson
1989Hanna-Barbera's 50th as Self - Host
1989Ghostbusters II as Janine Melnitz
1989Who's Harry Crumb? as Helen Downing
1988Family Dog as Mrs. Bev Binford
1988Pass the Ammo as Darla
1988She's Having a Baby as Annie Potts (uncredited)
1987The Man Who Fell to Earth as Louise
1986Jumpin' Jack Flash as Liz Carlson
1986Designing Women as Mary Jo Shively
1986Pretty in Pink as Iona
1986Bayou Romance as Lily
1985Amazing Stories as Mrs. Bev Binford (voice)
1985The Twilight Zone as (segment "Wordplay")
1985Lime Street
1985The Comedy Factory as Annie
1984It Came Upon the Midnight Clear as Cindy Mills
1984Crimes of Passion as Amy Grady
1984Ghostbusters as Janine Melnitz
1984Why Me? as Daria
1983Cowboy as D.G.
1982Something So Right as Sunday
1982Remington Steele as Annie Carpenter
1981Heartaches as Bonnie Howard
1980Magnum, P.I. as Tracy Spencer
1980The Scarlett O'Hara War as Betty (uncredited)
1980Goodtime Girls as Edith Bedelmeyer
1979Black Market Baby as Linda Cleary
1979Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers as Flatbed Annie
1978King of the Gypsies as Persa
1978Corvette Summer as Vanessa
1977Busting Loose
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
—40 Dates and 40 Nights as Gigi









