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
• Toy Story 4 as Bo Peep (voice)
• Lamp Life as Bo Peep (voice)
• Ghostbusters: Afterlife 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

TV

• The Twilight Zone as (segment "Wordplay")
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Sophie Devere
• Boston Legal as Joy Espenson
• Chicago Med as Helen
• Young Sheldon as Connie Tucker
• Grey's Anatomy as Joyce Bosco
• Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage as Connie Tucker
• Magnum, P.I. as Tracy Spencer
• Remington Steele as Annie Carpenter
• Amazing Stories as Mrs. Bev Binford (voice)