Annie Potts Biography
Annie Potts is an American actress best known for her roles in Ghostbusters, Pink, Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Who’s Harry Crumb?, and Ghostbusters II. At the 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards, she won a Genie Award for Heartaches and was nominated for Corvette Summer.
How old is Annie Potts?- Age
Potts is 70 years old as of October 2022. She was born Anne Hampton Potts on 28 October 1952 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.
Annie Potts Height
Potts stands at an average height of 5 Feet 3 Inches (1.60 m) tall.
Annie Potts Nationality
Potts is of American natinality by birth. She was born in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. She is of mixed race.
Annie Potts Family- Parents
She was born in the American city of Nashville, Tennessee. Powell Grisette Potts is the third child born to Powell Grisette Potts and Dorothy Harris. Her older sisters are Mary Eleanor Hovious and Elizabeth Grissette Potts.
Annie Potts Husband – Children
Potts is married to James Hayman. She married her James in a private ceremony in 1990. She has three sons: James Doc, born in 1992, Harry, born in 1996, and Clay, born in 1981 with her third husband, Scott Senechal. Cassius, a grandson, was born on July 12, 2021 as well.
Annie Potts Career
Potts made her film debut in 1978 in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer comedy film Corvette Summer, co-starring Mark Hamill. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in the film in 1979. She won the Genie Award for Best Foreign Actress in 1982 for her role in Heartaches, a film about a young woman married to a stock car racer and carrying his friend’s child. On the short-lived comedy series Goodtime Girls 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). In 1989, Potts attended the 41st Primetime Emmy Awards. In the Ghostbusters film series, Potts portrayed receptionist Janine Melnitz.
Potts has worked on audio books, including as the narrator and heroine in Larry McMurtry’s Telegraph Days, for which she won the 2007 Audie Award for Solo Narration-Female. She was cast in the film adaptation of Larry McMurtry’s Texasville, a sequel to The Last Picture Show. On November 17, 2009, she made her Broadway debut as Hope Davis’ replacement in the Tony Award-winning play God of Carnage. Potts co-starred with Leslie Bibb, Kristin Chenoweth, Jennifer Aspen, Miriam Shor, and Marisol Nichols in ABC’s comedy-drama series GCB in 2012. She says she based her character on Dixie Carter, and that “if she were still alive, the role would have been hers and should have been.”
Potts also starred in the 2012 Hallmark Channel original musical film The Music Teacher, about a high school music teacher who is about to lose her beloved school music program due to district budget cuts. Daley’s former students band together to stage a musical to raise funds to keep the program alive in an effort to save it. Potts signed on to play the lead in the ABC comedy-drama pilot Murder in Manhattan, about a mother and daughter who work as amateur sleuths. ABC later sought a cable network to distribute the series instead of airing it on network television. She began appearing as a series regular on the CBS sitcom Young Sheldon in 2017.
Annie Potts Net Worth
Potts has an estimated net worth of $8 Million.
Annie Potts Movies and TV Shows
MOVIES:
- 2021 – Arlo the Alligator Boy – Edmée
- 2021 – Ghostbusters: Afterlife
- 2019 – Toy Story 4
- 2018 – Happy Anniversary
- 2017 – Humor Me
- 2017 – Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town
- 2016 – Ghostbusters
- 2016 – All At Once
- 2015 – As Good As You
- 2014 – Chu and Blossom
- 2007 – The Sunday Man
- 2004 – Elvis Has Left the Building
- 1999 – Toy Story 2
TV SHOWS:
- 2021 – I Heart Arlo
- 2017–present – Young Sheldon
- 2016 – Scandal
- 2016 – Royal Pains
- 2015 – Major Crimes
- 2015 – NCIS: New Orleans
- 2015–2016 – Chicago Med
- 2014 – Instant Mom
- 2014 – Young & Hungry
- 2013–2018 – The Fosters
- 2013 – Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja
- 2013 – Grey’s Anatomy
- 2012 – GCB
- 2012 – The Music
- 2012 – Fish Hooks