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Annie Potts

Annie Potts
Annie Potts
Born: Oct 28, 1952 in Nashville, Tennessee
Occupation: Actor
Active: '80s-2000s
Major Genres: Comedy, Drama
Career Highlights: Pretty in Pink, Ghostbusters, Texasville
First Major Screen Credit: Corvette Summer (1978)
10 Videos for Annie Potts
Breaking the Rules (1992) Pass the Ammo (1988) Crimes of Passion (1984)
Texasville (1990) Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986) Ghostbusters (1984)
Ghostbusters 2 (1989) Pretty in Pink (1986) King of the Gypsies (1978)
Who's Harry Crumb? (1989)
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Biography:

Involved in amateur theatricals since childhood, Annie Potts received her BFA in theatre arts from Missouri's Stephens College. Potts has been seen in comic supporting roles in films since 1978; she is most closely associated with the part of ditzy secretary Janine Melnitz in the two Ghostbusters flicks of the 1980s.

On television, Potts has played Edith Bedelmeyer on the one-season sitcom Goodtime Girls (1980), then enjoyed a longer run as Mary Jo Shively on Designing Women (1986-93). Her characterization of outspoken gourmet chef Dana Paladino on the prime time sitcom Love and War won Annie an Emmy nomination in 1994.

Annie Potts has also been featured in a popular series of commercials for a well-known corn-chip product, and has served as national spokesperson for the Women for Arthritis Foundation. In 1996 she was cast as a no-nonsense schoolteacher of troubled inner-city high schoolers in the ABC-TV show Dangerous Minds, a series based on the 1995 Michelle Pfeiffer film of the same name.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.