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Annie Potts
Highest Rated: 100% Toy Story (1995)
Lowest Rated: 27% Who's Harry Crumb? (1989)
Birthday: Oct 28, 1952
Birthplace: Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Annie Potts was an American film and TV actress who was best known for her roles in "Ghostbusters" (1984), "Designing Women" (1986-1993), "Young Sheldon" (CBS, 2017- ), and three of the four "Toy Story" movies, in which she voiced the role of Bo Peep. Born in Nashville and raised in Kentucky, Potts always dreamt of becoming an actress. She attended Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri where she first began taking drama courses. After graduating, Potts continued her acting studies with post-graduate work in California. However, Potts's burgeoning acting career was nearly derailed in her early 20s when she and her then husband were involved in a major car accident in New Mexico. Potts survived, thankfully, but broke several bones as a result from the wreck and was laid up for weeks in the hospital. After recovering from the accident, Potts pushed forward with her fledgling acting career. She made her feature film debut in 1978's "Corvette Summer" which also starred Mark Hamill, who was fresh off his starring role in the blockbuster "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope" (1977). Potts continued nabbing roles throughout the early 1980s but it was her supporting role as a wise-cracking secretary in 1984's "Ghostbusters" that really put her on the map. The huge success of "Ghostbusters" put Potts into the purview of casting agents seemingly overnight and before long she was appearing in popular 80s films like "Crimes of Passion" (1984), "Pretty in Pink" (1986), and "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (1986). Then in 1986 Potts joined the cast of the CBS sitcom "Designing Women." She played the role of Mary Jo Shively on the series, which also starred Delta Burke and Dixie Carter. Potts appeared in all 163 episodes of the series, which ended its 7 season run in 1993. Potts' next big role came in 1995 when she was cast as the voice of Bo Peep in the Pixar animated film "Toy Story" (1995). Potts reprised her role as Bo Peep in two subsequent "Toy Story" sequels, including 2019's "Toy Story 4." Potts continued acting regularly in both films and on TV shows well into the 2010s. In 2013 she landed a recurring role on "The Fosters" (Freeform, 2013-18). In 2017 she joined the cast of the highly anticipated spin-off series "Young Sheldon." The sitcom, which was told from the point-of-view of Sheldon Cooper from "The Big Bang Theory" (CBS, 2007-2019) at 9-years-old, was an immediate success, and premiered its third season in the fall of 2019.
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Filmography
Movies
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42% |
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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire | Janine Melnitz (Character) | $112.7M | 2024 |
63% |
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Ghostbusters: Afterlife | Janine Melnitz (Character) | $128.8M | 2021 |
85% |
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Arlo the Alligator Boy | Edmée (Voice) | - | 2021 |
No Score Yet |
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Lamp Life | Bo Peep (Voice) | - | 2020 |
97% |
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Toy Story 4 | Bo Peep (Voice) | $434.0M | 2019 |
83% |
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Happy Anniversary | Diane (Character) | - | 2018 |
55% |
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Izzy Gets the F... Across Town | Mary (Character) | - | 2017 |
71% |
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Humor Me | Dee (Character) | - | 2017 |
No Score Yet |
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All at Once | Ginny Maxwell (Character) | - | 2016 |
74% |
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Ghostbusters | Desk Clerk (Character) | - | 2016 |
No Score Yet |
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Chu and Blossom | Aunt (Character) | - | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Music Teacher | Alyson Daley (Character) | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet |
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Five | Helen (Character) | - | 2011 |
No Score Yet |
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Freshman Father | Dorothy Downs (Character) | - | 2010 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kids With Cameras | Unknown (Character) | - | 2009 |
No Score Yet |
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Queen Sized | Joan Baker (Character) | - | 2008 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Sunday Man | Mrs. Culp (Character) | - | 2007 |
No Score Yet |
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Elvis Has Left the Building | Shirl (Character) | - | 2004 |
No Score Yet |
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Defending Our Kids: The Julie Posey Story | Julie Posey (Character) | - | 2003 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Designing Women Reunion | Self | - | 2003 |
100% |
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Toy Story 2 | Bo Peep (Voice) | $245.9M | 1999 |
100% |
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Toy Story | Bo Peep (Voice) | $31.3M | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Her Deadly Rival | Kris Lansford (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet |
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Breaking the Rules | Mary Klinglitch (Character) | $23.2K | 1992 |
59% |
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Texasville | Karla Jackson (Character) | $1.9M | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Amazing Stories: The Movie III | Unknown (Voice) | - | 1990 |
27% |
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Who's Harry Crumb? | Helen Downing (Character) | $10.4M | 1989 |
No Score Yet |
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Pass the Ammo | Darla (Character) | $98.2K | 1988 |
33% |
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Jumpin' Jack Flash | Liz Carlson (Character) | $24.5M | 1986 |
75% |
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Pretty in Pink | Iona (Character) | $521.0K | 1986 |
50% |
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Crimes of Passion | Amy Grady (Character) | - | 1984 |
95% |
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Ghostbusters | Janine Melnitz (Character) | $298.5M | 1984 |
No Score Yet |
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It Came Upon the Midnight Clear | Cindy Mills (Character) | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Why Me? | Daria (Character) | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cowboy | D.G. (Character) | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Something So Right | Sunday (Character) | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bayou Romance | Lily (Character) | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Heartaches | Bonnie Howard (Character) | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Flatbed Annie & Sweetiepie: Lady Truckers | Flatbed Annie (Character) | - | 1979 |
56% |
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Corvette Summer | Vanessa (Character) | - | 1978 |
67% |
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King of the Gypsies | Persa (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Black Market Baby | Linda Cleary (Character) | - | 1977 |
TV
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No Score Yet | 82% | Young Sheldon | Meemaw (Character) | 2017-2024 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Talk | Guest | 2012 2017-2019 2024 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Jennifer Hudson Show | Guest | 2024 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Heart Arlo | Edmée (Voice) | 2021 |
No Score Yet | 62% | The Kelly Clarkson Show | Guest | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Home & Family | Guest | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Long Island Medium | Self | 2018 |
97% | 85% | The Fosters | Grandma Sharon (Guest Star) | 2013-2014 2016-2017 |
No Score Yet | 36% | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Guest | 2016 |
94% | 76% | Royal Pains | Mrs. Sacani (Guest Star) | 2016 |
No Score Yet | 75% | Chicago Med | Helen (Guest Star) | 2015-2016 |
No Score Yet | 62% | NCIS: New Orleans | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2015 |
No Score Yet | 78% | Major Crimes | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2015 |
84% | 73% | Grey's Anatomy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2013 |
17% | 17% | Animal Practice | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2012 |
42% | 69% | GCB | Gigi Stopper (Character) | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Chew | Guest | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Revolution | Guest | 2012 |
65% | 66% | Two and a Half Men | Lenore (Guest Star) | 2009 |
86% | 91% | Boston Legal | Joy Espenson (Guest Star) | 2008 |
97% | 83% | Ugly Betty | Linda (Guest Star) | 2008 |
56% | No Score Yet | Men in Trees | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2007 |
78% | 83% | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Sophie Devere (Guest Star) | 2005-2007 |
65% | No Score Yet | Close to Home | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2005 |
96% | 62% | Joan of Arcadia | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2004-2005 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Any Day Now | Mary Elizabeth "M.E." O'Brien Sims (Character) | 1998-2002 |
17% | No Score Yet | Over the Top | Hadley Martin (Character) | 1997 |
53% | No Score Yet | Dangerous Minds | Louanne Johnson (Character) | 1996-1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Love & War | Dana Palladino (Character) | 1992-1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Designing Women | Mary Jo Shively (Character) | 1986-1993 |
No Score Yet | 82% | Amazing Stories | Unknown (Character) | 1987 |
No Score Yet | 95% | Magnum, P.I. | Tracy Spencer (Guest Star) | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Goodtime Girls | Edith Bedelmeyer (Character) | 1980 |