Annie Potts

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Annie Potts
Biographical
Full name	Anne Hampton Potts
Gender	Female
Born in	October 28, 1952
Eye color	Brown
Occupation	Film actress Television actress Stage actress
Role	Olympia Timbers

Anne Hampton "Annie" Potts is an American film, television and stage actress. She voices Olympia Timbers in Welcome to the Wayne.

She is known for her roles in popular 1980s films such as Ghostbusters (1984), Ghostbusters II, Pretty in Pink, Jumpin' Jack Flash and Who's Harry Crumb?. In the 1990s, she voiced Bo Peep in the animated films Toy Story and Toy Story 2. She is also known for playing Mary Jo Jackson Shively on the CBS sitcom Designing Women (1986–1993).

Potts was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in 1994 for playing Dana Palladino on the CBS sitcom Love & War, and was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award in 1998 and 1999 for playing Mary Elizabeth Sims in the Lifetime drama series Any Day Now. In 2012, she starred as Gigi Stopper on the ABC comedy-drama series GCB. She currently portrays Connie (Meemaw) on the CBS situation comedy Young Sheldon.

Career

Potts made her debut on the big screen in 1978 in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer comedy film Corvette Summer, with Mark Hamill. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1979 for her role in the film. In 1982 she won Genie Awards for Best Performance by a Foreign Actress for her role in the film Heartaches, about a young woman, married to a stock car racer and carrying his friend's child. In 1980, she played Edith Bedelmeyer, a woman who shared an attic apartment with three other women (played by Georgia Engel, Lorna Patterson and Francine Tacker) on the short-lived comedy series, Goodtime Girls.

External links

• Annie Potts on IMDb

• Annie Potts on Facebook

• Annie Potts at the TCM Movie Database

• Annie Potts at the Internet Broadway Database

• Annie Potts at the Internet Off-Broadway Database

• Annie Potts at AllMovie

• Annie Potts at TVGuide.com

Welcome to the Wayne cast & crew

Main Cast Alanna Ubach / Billy Lopez / Dana Steingold Guest cast Alfred Molina / Andrew Rannells / Annie Potts / Bill Lobley / Billy Bob Thompson / Carey Means / Clarke Thorell / Dana Snyder / Daniel Abeles / Darren Dunstan / Dave Willis / David Hornsby / Emo Philips / Fran Drescher / Henry Winkler / Katie DiCicco / Kevin Conroy / Korey Jackson / Kira Kosarin / Malcolm McDowell / Marc Thompson / Noah Galvin / Phil LaMarr / Richard Kind / Robbie Sublett / Sam Riegel / Shannon Walsh / Stephanie D'Abruzzo / Tom Kenny / Veronica Taylor Crew Billy Lopez / Adam Cohen / Michael Pecoriello / Jordan Gershowitz / Stacey Greenberger / Bob Mittenthal / Jeffrey Sayers / Kevin Seccia / Tahir Rana / Bram Cayne / Matt Wilson