Annie Potts

Annie Potts

1952-10-28 Nashville, Tennessee, USA 53 Credits

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 201...

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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

2024

as Janine Melnitz

6.5
Acting

When the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to protect their home and save the world ...

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

2021

as Janine Melnitz

7.3
Acting

When single mom Callie and her two kids Trevor and Phoebe arrive in a small Oklahoma town, they begin to discover their connection to the original Gho...

Arlo the Alligator Boy

Arlo the Alligator Boy

2021

as Edmée (voice)

6.7
Acting

Upon learning that he is from New York City, a wide-eyed boy, who is half human and half alligator, decides to leave his sheltered life in the swamp a...

Lamp Life

Lamp Life

2020

as Bo Peep (voice)

7.1
Acting

Bo Peep explains what happened to herself and her sheep between the events of Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 4.

Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters

Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters

2020

as Self

6.8
Acting

The documentary that tells us the full story from where it all started through to the future of the "Ghostbusters" franchise.

Toy Story 4

Toy Story 4

2019

as Bo Peep (voice)

7.5
Acting

Woody has always been confident about his place in the world and that his priority is taking care of his kid, whether that's Andy or Bonnie. But when ...

Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town

Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town

2018

as Mary

5.4
Acting

A woman at rock bottom must find her way across Los Angeles in order to crash her ex-boyfriend's engagement party.

Happy Anniversary

Happy Anniversary

2018

as Diane

5.7
Acting

A quirky couple spends their three-year dating anniversary looking back at their relationship and contemplating whether they should break up.

Humor Me

Humor Me

2017

as Dee

5.9
Acting

With an interminable case of writer's block and a personal family crisis, playwright Nate is forced to move into his father's retirement community.

Ghostbusters

Ghostbusters

2016

as Desk Clerk

5.3
Acting

Following a ghost invasion of Manhattan, paranormal enthusiasts Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates, nuclear engineer Jillian Holtzmann, and subway worker Pat...

Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond

Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond

2015

as Self

6.8
Acting

Retrospective looking at the revolutionary computer-animated feature film Toy Story.

As Good As You

As Good As You

2015

as Dr. Laura Berg

4.6
Acting

Jo's world is thrown into utter disarray when her wife Amanda passes away and she starts chasing a dream that she and Amanda had once shared - startin...

Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey

Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey

2014

as Self

7.0
Acting

Hal Holbrook's Mark Twain is an icon of American theater. Since first walking on stage in 1954, Holbrook has performed his one-man show Mark Twain Ton...

Chu and Blossom

Chu and Blossom

2014

as Aunt

4.0
Acting

A militant performance-artist and a tall Korean foreign-exchange student become trapped in a small Southern town.

The Music Teacher

The Music Teacher

2012

as Alyson/Young Alyson

5.0
Acting

Music Teacher revolves around Alyson Daley (Potts), a high school music teacher who is on the brink of losing her beloved school music program because...

Five

Five

2011

as Helen

7.1
Acting

An anthology of five short films exploring the impact of breast cancer on people's lives.

Don't You Forget About Me

Don't You Forget About Me

2010

as Self

5.3
Acting

Throughout the ’80s John Hughes defined the teen movie genre and spoke not only to that generation’s teens, but every generation that has followed. Th...

Freshman Father

Freshman Father

2010

as Dorothy Downs

6.7
Acting

When high school sweethearts John and Kathy find out Kathy is pregnant, they decide to get married and move to Cambridge so John can fulfill his schol...

Queen Sized

Queen Sized

2008

as Joan Baker

4.8
Acting

Maggie Baker has a weight problem, and her high school classmates won't let her forget it. They shamelessly ridicule her, and even go so far as to nom...

The Sunday Man

The Sunday Man

2007

as Mrs. Culp

Acting

The misadventures of a remarkably peculiar man, who has some very unusual ideas about who he is.

Elvis Has Left the Building

Elvis Has Left the Building

2004

as Shirl

5.2
Acting

Harmony had an encounter early in life with the young Elvis, and can't seem to shake his influence. Now a Pink Lady selling cosmetics, she seems to in...

The Designing Women Reunion

The Designing Women Reunion

2003

Acting

This five principal original cast members (plus a handful of recurring guests) from the popular sitcom Designing Women (1986) reunite for the first ti...

Defending Our Kids: The Julie Posey Story

Defending Our Kids: The Julie Posey Story

2003

as Julie Posey

6.9
Acting

After a paedophile approaches her daughter in an on-line chat room, a homemaker (Annie Potts) poses as a lonely teenager to help expose sexual predato...

Toy Story 2

Toy Story 2

1999

as Bo Peep (voice)

7.6
Acting

Andy heads off to Cowboy Camp, leaving his toys to their own devices. Things shift into high gear when an obsessive toy collector named Al McWhiggen, ...

The Story Behind 'Toy Story'

The Story Behind 'Toy Story'

1996

as Self

7.9
Acting

The documentary short of Toy Story of why and how the feature length blockbuster sleeper movie became a success and helps to boost Pixar's popularity ...

Making 'Toy Story'

Making 'Toy Story'

1995

as Narrator

6.8
Acting

Documentary of the making of the groundbreaking Disney/Pixar animated hit movie.

Toy Story

Toy Story

1995

as Bo Peep (voice)

8.0
Acting

Led by Woody, Andy's toys live happily in his room until Andy's birthday brings Buzz Lightyear onto the scene. Afraid of losing his place in Andy's he...

Her Deadly Rival

Her Deadly Rival

1995

as Kris Lansford

4.5
Acting

A man's life and marriage fall apart when he is stalked and harassed by a mysterious secret admirer -- a woman he claims he has never met, in this fac...

Breaking the Rules

Breaking the Rules

1992

as Mary Klinglitch

5.2
Acting

Two friends take their dying buddy on one last road trip.

Texasville

Texasville

1990

as Karla Jackson

6.0
Acting

Summer, 1984: 30 years after Duane captained the high school football team and Jacy was homecoming queen, this Texas town near Wichita Falls prepares ...

Hanna-Barbera's 50th

Hanna-Barbera's 50th

1989

as Self - Host

9.2
Acting

The special is hosted by Tony Danza and Annie Potts celebrating 50 years of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera's partnership in animation. This is the f...

Ghostbusters II

Ghostbusters II

1989

as Janine Melnitz

6.6
Acting

The discovery of a massive river of ectoplasm and a resurgence of spectral activity allows the staff of Ghostbusters to revive the business.

Who's Harry Crumb?

Who's Harry Crumb?

1989

as Helen Downing

5.9
Acting

Harry Crumb is a bumbling and inept private investigator who is hired to solve the kidnapping of a young heiress which he's not expected to solve beca...

Family Dog

Family Dog

1988

as Mrs. Bev Binford

Acting

An Amazing Stories episode told in three vignettes theatrically released with The Land Before Time, serving as the backdoor pilot to the cartoon serie...

Pass the Ammo

Pass the Ammo

1988

as Darla

4.1
Acting

A corrupt television preacher and his congregation are held hostage by a woman, her lover, and her two cousins in an attempt to avenge the theft of he...

She's Having a Baby

She's Having a Baby

1988

as Annie Potts (uncredited)

5.9
Acting

Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their paren...

The Man Who Fell to Earth

The Man Who Fell to Earth

1987

as Louise

5.3
Acting

An alien lands on Earth, and decides that he needs to a job in order to raise money to build a spaceship so he can return to his home planet.

Jumpin' Jack Flash

Jumpin' Jack Flash

1986

as Liz Carlson

6.1
Acting

Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day, she gets a strange coded message from an unknown s...

Pretty in Pink

Pretty in Pink

1986

as Iona

6.7
Acting

Andie is an outcast, hanging out either with her older boss, who owns the record store where she works, or her quirky high school classmate Duckie, wh...

Bayou Romance

Bayou Romance

1986

as Lily

Acting

Lily, an energetic and charming artist, leaves the city life for a sprawling plantation she's inherited in Louisiana. Unfortunately, it's inhabited by...

It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

1984

as Cindy Mills

5.6
Acting

Retired cop Mike Halligan decides to show his grandson, who has never seen snow before, what a real white Christmas in New York is like. But a sudden ...

Crimes of Passion

Crimes of Passion

1984

as Amy Grady

6.3
Acting

Fashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who's attracted the attention of a sexually frustrated pri...

Ghostbusters

Ghostbusters

1984

as Janine Melnitz

7.5
Acting

After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting "ghostbusters" who...

Why Me?

Why Me?

1984

as Daria

5.4
Acting

An Air Force nurse about to leave the service is badly disfigured about her face in a car accident in which she also loses her baby.

Cowboy

Cowboy

1983

as D.G.

Acting

A man from the city returns to his small home town in the countryside to live like a farmer. He finds couple of friends among the locals, but people r...

Something So Right

Something So Right

1982

as Sunday

5.0
Acting

Joey lives with his mother. His father isn't around, he doesn't like school, he is bored and doesn't take orders from anyone. In other words he is a r...

Heartaches

Heartaches

1981

as Bonnie Howard

5.3
Acting

A young wife becomes pregnant, but the child's father is not her husband. Afraid to tell him, she leaves home, and meets an outgoing, free-spirited wo...

The Scarlett O'Hara War

The Scarlett O'Hara War

1980

as Betty (uncredited)

6.1
Acting

The trials and tribulations of David O. Selznick as he attempts to find an actress to play the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939).

Black Market Baby

Black Market Baby

1979

as Linda Cleary

6.0
Acting

A young college girl becomes pregnant, and she and the baby's father are targeted by a black-market adoption ring that is out to get the baby.

Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers

Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers

1979

as Flatbed Annie

4.7
Acting

This engaging made-for-television movie follows the adventures of Ginny "Sweetie Pie" LaRosa (Kim Darby), who needs money after her trucker husband, J...

King of the Gypsies

King of the Gypsies

1978

as Persa

5.6
Acting

Zharko, leader of the Romanis in NYC, passes his position of leadership on to his unwilling grandson, Dave, leading to infighting between Dave and hi...

Corvette Summer

Corvette Summer

1978

as Vanessa

5.5
Acting

Ken loves to design and build exotic cars. When the High School shop class project car, a fully tricked out dream Corvette, is stolen, he begins searc...

40 Dates and 40 Nights

N/A

as Gigi

Acting

A struggling romantic accepts her aunt's wager: go on 40 dates in 40 nights to find true love. If she fails, her aunt will cover her rent and student ...