Annie Potts

Acting · Born 1952-10-28 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA

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…

Filmography

• Toy Story 2 as Bo Peep (voice)
• Toy Story as Bo Peep (voice)
• Ghostbusters as Janine Melnitz
• Ghostbusters II as Janine Melnitz
• King of the Gypsies as Persa
• Pretty in Pink as Iona
• Who's Harry Crumb? as Helen Downing
• Corvette Summer as Vanessa
• Crimes of Passion as Amy Grady
• Don't You Forget About Me as Self