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Annie Potts (born October 28, 1952) is an American television and film actress. She 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 recent guest-starring role on the CBS drama Joan of Arcadia.

She has done work on talking books, including as the narrator and heroine of Larry McMurtry's "Telegraph Days".

Annie Potts 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 was born in Nashville, Tennessee, and grew up in Franklin, Kentucky, where she graduated from Franklin-Simpson High School. She received a Bachelor in Fine Arts degree (in theater arts) from Stephens College in Missouri.

Potts is married to television director James Hayman and is the mother of three sons, Clay, Doc, and Harry. She is a dedicated 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.

Selected filmography

• Toy Story 2 (1999)
• Toy Story (1995; voice only)
• Breaking the Rules (1992)
• Texasville (1990)
• Ghostbusters II (1989)
• Who's Harry Crumb? (1989)
• Pass the Ammo (1988)
• She's Having a Baby (1988)
• Pretty in Pink (1986)
• Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986)
• Crimes of Passion (1984)
• Ghostbusters (1984)
• Bayou Romance (1982)
• Heartaches (1981)
• Corvette Summer (1978)
• King of the Gypsies (1978)

Television

• Goodtime Girls (1980)
• Designing Women (1986-1993)
• Love and War (1994-1995)
• Dangerous Minds (1996)
• Over the Top (1997)
• Any Day Now (1998)
• Hercules
• Her Deadly Rival
• Fifty Years of Funny Females
• The Ultimate Driving Challenge

Trivia

When Potts was 17, she was hit by a car driven by a man under the influence of alcohol.

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