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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Complete Filmography

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
2024
as Janine Melnitz
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
2021
as Janine Melnitz
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
2021
as Edmée (voice)
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
2020
as Bo Peep (voice)
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
2020
as Self
The documentary that tells us the full story from where it all started through to the future of the "Ghostbusters" franchise.

Toy Story 4
2019
as Bo Peep (voice)
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
2018
as Mary
A woman at rock bottom must find her way across Los Angeles in order to crash her ex-boyfriend's engagement party.

Happy Anniversary
2018
as Diane
A quirky couple spends their three-year dating anniversary looking back at their relationship and contemplating whether they should break up.

Humor Me
2017
as Dee
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
2016
as Desk Clerk
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
2015
as Self
Retrospective looking at the revolutionary computer-animated feature film Toy Story.

As Good As You
2015
as Dr. Laura Berg
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
2014
as Self
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
2014
as Aunt
A militant performance-artist and a tall Korean foreign-exchange student become trapped in a small Southern town.

The Music Teacher
2012
as Alyson/Young Alyson
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
2011
as Helen
An anthology of five short films exploring the impact of breast cancer on people's lives.

Don't You Forget About Me
2010
as Self
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
2010
as Dorothy Downs
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
2008
as Joan Baker
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
2007
as Mrs. Culp
The misadventures of a remarkably peculiar man, who has some very unusual ideas about who he is.

Elvis Has Left the Building
2004
as Shirl
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
2003
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
2003
as Julie Posey
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
1999
as Bo Peep (voice)
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'
1996
as Self
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'
1995
as Narrator
Documentary of the making of the groundbreaking Disney/Pixar animated hit movie.

Toy Story
1995
as Bo Peep (voice)
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
1995
as Kris Lansford
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
1992
as Mary Klinglitch
Two friends take their dying buddy on one last road trip.

Texasville
1990
as Karla Jackson
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
1989
as Self - Host
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
1989
as Janine Melnitz
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?
1989
as Helen Downing
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
1988
as Mrs. Bev Binford
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
1988
as Darla
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
1988
as Annie Potts (uncredited)
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
1987
as Louise
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
1986
as Liz Carlson
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
1986
as Iona
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
1986
as Lily
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
1984
as Cindy Mills
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
1984
as Amy Grady
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
1984
as Janine Melnitz
After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting "ghostbusters" who...

Why Me?
1984
as Daria
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
1983
as D.G.
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
1982
as Sunday
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
1981
as Bonnie Howard
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
1980
as Betty (uncredited)
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
1979
as Linda Cleary
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
1979
as Flatbed Annie
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
1978
as Persa
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
1978
as Vanessa
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
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 ...