Annie Potts
Also Known As: Anne Hampton "Annie" Potts, Anne Hampton Potts, 安妮·帕茲, 애니 포츠, آنی پاتس
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 drama Dangerous Minds for one season 1996–1997, and was nominated for Screen Actors Guild Awards in 1998 and 1999 for playing Mary-Elizabeth "M.E" Sims in the Lifetime drama series Any Day Now (1998–2002). Her other television credits include GCB (2012), The Fosters (2013–2018), and Young Sheldon (2017–present). She was married to her 1st husband Steven Hartley from 1973 to 1978; her 2nd husband, actor Greg Antonacci from 1978 to 1980; and her 3rd husband Scott Senechal from 1981 to 1989, and they have 1 son. She married her 4th husband, director/producer James Hayman in 1990 and they have 2 sons. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Birthday: October 28, 1952
Age: 72 years old
Gender: Female
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Toy Story 2
Overview: 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, owner of Al's Toy Barn kidnaps Woody. Andy's toys mount a daring rescue mission, Buzz Lightyear meets his match and Woody has to decide where he and his heart truly belong.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-30
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Toy Story
Overview: 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 heart, Woody plots against Buzz. But when circumstances separate Buzz and Woody from their owner, the duo eventually learns to put aside their differences.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-22
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Ghostbusters
Overview: After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting "ghostbusters" who exterminate ghouls, hobgoblins and supernatural pests of all stripes. An ad campaign pays off when a knockout cellist hires the squad to purge her swanky digs of demons that appear to be living in her refrigerator.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-08
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Ghostbusters II
Overview: Having lost their status and credibility five years after covering New York City with gooey roasted marshmallows in Ghostbusters (1984), the city's former heroes and once-popular spirit-hunters struggle to keep afloat, forced to work odd jobs. However, when Dana and her baby have yet another terrifying encounter with the paranormal, it is up to Peter Venkman and his fearless team of supernatural crime fighters to step up and save the day. Once more, humankind is in danger, as rivers of slimy psycho-reactive ectoplasm, paired with the dreadful manifestation of evil sixteenth-century tyrant Vigo the Carpathian, threaten to plunge the entire city into darkness. Is the world ready to believe? Can the Ghostbusters save us for the second time?
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-16
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King of the Gypsies
Overview: Zharko, leader of the Romanis in NYC, passes his position of leadership on to his unwilling grandson, Dave, leading to infighting between Dave and his father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-20
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Pretty in Pink
Overview: 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, who has a crush on her. When one of the rich and popular kids at school, Blane, asks Andie out, it seems too good to be true. As Andie starts falling for Blane, she begins to realize that dating someone from a different social sphere is not easy.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-28
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Who's Harry Crumb?
Overview: 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 because his employer is the mastermind behind the kidnapping.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-03
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Corvette Summer
Overview: 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 searching for it. His search leads him to Las Vegas, where Vanessa, a teenaged prostitute wannabe, helps him try to track it down.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-02
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Crimes of Passion
Overview: 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 private detective, and a psychopathic priest in possession of a murderous sex toy.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-19
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Don't You Forget About Me
Overview: 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. Then in 1991 he hung up his director’s hat and disappeared into obscurity ala J.D Salinger. In 2008, a group of young Canadian filmmakers set out to complete a documentary about the man with what they hoped would culminate with an interview, which would be his first since 1999.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-13
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Elvis Has Left the Building
Overview: 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 inadvertently bring harm to any Elvis impersonators she encounters. After a bizarre car accident leaves a slew of them dead, Harmony goes on the run from the authorities, hooking up with a downtrodden ad exec who has Elvis troubles of his own.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-27
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It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
Overview: A man suddenly dies and makes a deal with the Archangel of Heaven to return to Earth for a week until Christmas, to show his grandson what a real white Christmas in New York is like.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-15
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Texasville
Overview: Summer, 1984: 30 years after Duane captained the high school football team and Jacy was homecoming queen, this Texas town near Wichita Falls prepares for its centennial. Oil prices are down, banks are failing, and Duane's $12 million in debt. His wife Karla drinks too much, his children are always in trouble, and he tom-cats around with the wives of friends. Jacy's back in town, after a mildly successful acting career, life in Italy, and the death of her son. Folks assume Duane and Jacy will resume their high school romance. And Sonny is "tired in his mind," causing worries for his safety. Can these friends find equilibrium in middle age?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-28
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Queen Sized
Overview: 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 nominate her for Homecoming Queen as a joke. Maggie, however, decides to take the nomination seriously, collects the required signatures and starts campaigning. A number of students get behind her, threatening the chances of the popular clique -- who resolve to sabotage Maggie's campaign by any means necessary.
Genres: Drama Family Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-12
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Pass the Ammo
Overview: 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 her inheritance. A quirky look at the dishonesty of the televangelist industry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-04
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Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers
Overview: This engaging made-for-television movie follows the adventures of Ginny "Sweetie Pie" LaRosa (Kim Darby), who needs money after her trucker husband, Jack (Fred Willard), is shot by hijackers. Fortunately, she finds a partner in Flatbed Annie (Annie Potts), a freewheelin' driver. The women form an unlikely but profitable friendship while fending off the repo man who wants the truck and the criminals who are after the cocaine hidden in it.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-10
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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Overview: 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 from a second Ice Age.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-20
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The Music Teacher
Overview: 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 of district budget cuts. In an effort to spare the program, Daley's former students band together to stage a musical to raise money to keep the program alive.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-11
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Defending Our Kids: The Julie Posey Story
Overview: 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 predators.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-23
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Freshman Father
Overview: 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 scholarship to Harvard. But faced with the harsh reality of their situation, Kathy leaves John behind, compelling him to rent a room from Dorothy, a psychic who encourages him as he struggles to balance school and fatherhood.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-05
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Why Me?
Overview: 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.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-12
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The Man Who Fell to Earth
Overview: 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.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-22
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Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters
Overview: The documentary that tells us the full story from where it all started through to the future of the "Ghostbusters" franchise.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-07
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Chu and Blossom
Overview: A militant performance-artist and a tall Korean foreign-exchange student become trapped in a small Southern town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-31
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Her Deadly Rival
Overview: 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 fact-based variation on "Fatal Attraction."
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-19
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Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
Overview: 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 Tonight! for millions on and off Broadway, in all fifty states, in twenty countries, before five U.S. presidents and behind the Iron Curtain. Countless actors and Twain scholars have been influenced by Holbrook's work and his Tony and Emmy Award-winning masterpiece.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-15
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Making 'Toy Story'
Overview: Documentary of the making of the groundbreaking Disney/Pixar animated hit movie.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-02
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Cowboy
Overview: 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 running the town want his land.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-04-30
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The Scarlett O'Hara War
Overview: 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).
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-19
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Bayou Romance
Overview: Lily, an energetic and charming artist, leaves the city life for a sprawling plantation she's inherited in Louisiana. Unfortunately, it's inhabited by a band of gypsies, and she's drawn, perhaps by magic, to the handsome and rugged Zanko. But that's only the beginning. An old fashioned love affair blooms between her and a Creole doctor in a nearby town, and events are even further complicated when she discovers a secret link between her family and the steamy, romantic bayou.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Hanna-Barbera's 50th
Overview: 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 first animated project to be broadcast in Dolby Surround sound system.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Family Animation Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-07-17
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The Sunday Man
Overview: The misadventures of a remarkably peculiar man, who has some very unusual ideas about who he is.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-28
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Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town
Overview: A woman at rock bottom must find her way across Los Angeles in order to crash her ex-boyfriend's engagement party.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-22
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Heartaches
Overview: 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 woman on a bus. Although the two are polar opposites, the wife moves in with the young woman, and finds out that they have much more in common than she realized.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-04
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Ghostbusters
Overview: Following a ghost invasion of Manhattan, paranormal enthusiasts Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates, nuclear engineer Jillian Holtzmann, and subway worker Patty Tolan band together to stop the otherworldly threat.
Genres: Action Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-07-14
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Five
Overview: An anthology of five short films exploring the impact of breast cancer on people's lives.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-10
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The Designing Women Reunion
Overview: This five principal original cast members (plus a handful of recurring guests) from the popular sitcom Designing Women (1986) reunite for the first time since 1991 to reminisce and discuss the show.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-28
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Happy Anniversary
Overview: A quirky couple spends their three-year dating anniversary looking back at their relationship and contemplating whether they should break up.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-30
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Humor Me
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-16
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The Story Behind 'Toy Story'
Overview: 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 of making one of the few animation movie production companies in the world today, especially in North America.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-18
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As Good As You
Overview: 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 - starting a family together. Jo asks her late wife's brother, Jamie, to be her sperm donor and craziness ensues.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-03
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She's Having a Baby
Overview: 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 parents) expect from them. Do they want babies? Their parents certainly want them to. Is married life all that there is? Things certainly aren't helped by Jake's friend Davis, who always seems to turn up just in time to put a spanner in the works.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-05
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Black Market Baby
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-18
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Jumpin' Jack Flash
Overview: 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 source. After decoding the message, Terry becomes embroiled in an espionage ring. People are killed, and Terry is chased. Throughout, she remains in contact with this mysterious person, who needs Terry's help save his life.
Genres: Romance Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-09
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Toy Story 4
Overview: 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 Bonnie adds a reluctant new toy called "Forky" to her room, a road trip adventure alongside old and new friends will show Woody how big the world can be for a toy.
Genres: Family Adventure Animation Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-19
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Lamp Life
Overview: Bo Peep explains what happened to herself and her sheep between the events of Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 4.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-31
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Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Overview: 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 Ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-18
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Breaking the Rules
Overview: Two friends take their dying buddy on one last road trip.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-09
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Arlo the Alligator Boy
Overview: 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 and search for his long lost father. A musical adventure.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-04-16
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Something So Right
Overview: 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 real little scamp. Being at one's wit's end, his mother decides to look for a "big brother" (sort of surrogate father) for Joey. At first this clumsy Arnie doesn't know how to handle Joey but after a while everything changes and not only for Joey ...
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-30
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Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond
Overview: Retrospective looking at the revolutionary computer-animated feature film Toy Story.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-10
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40 Dates and 40 Nights
Overview: 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 debt. But the journey proves more challenging than expected.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
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Family Dog
Overview: An Amazing Stories episode told in three vignettes theatrically released with The Land Before Time, serving as the backdoor pilot to the cartoon series of the same name. In the short, a family takes out their frustrations on their poor dog, watches their Christmas home movie, and sends the dog to guard dog school after a burglary.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-18
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