Annie Potts

Annie Potts

Born: October 28, 1952
in Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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

Movies for Annie Potts...

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Title: Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Character: Janine Melnitz
Released: March 20, 2024
Type: Movie
The Spengler family returns to where it all started – the iconic New York City firehouse – to team up with the original Ghostbusters, who've developed a top-secret research lab to take busting ghosts to the next level. But 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.
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Title: The Jennifer Hudson Show
Character: Self
Released: September 12, 2022
Type: TV
Talented entertainer and newly-minted EGOT Jennifer Hudson takes on the daytime talk show landscape.
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Title: Sherri
Character: Self - Guest
Released: September 12, 2022
Type: TV
Sherri Shepherd, actress, comic, and Emmy Award-winning longtime co-host of "The View", appears before a live audience with a daily dose of pop culture, comedy, conversations, and daytime talk staples, including celebrity and human interest interviews;
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Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Title: Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Character: Janine Melnitz
Released: November 18, 2021
Type: Movie
When a single mom and her two kids arrive in a small town, they begin to discover their connection to the original Ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind.
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Title: I Heart Arlo
Character: Edmee (voice)
Released: August 27, 2021
Type: TV
Arlo and his newfound crew set up shop in an abandoned seaside neighborhood and help bring it back to life.
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Arlo the Alligator Boy
Title: Arlo the Alligator Boy
Character: Edmée (voice)
Released: April 16, 2021
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Reunited Apart
Character: Self
Released: April 27, 2020
Type: TV
Josh Gad reunites the cast and crews of various classic movies, and discusses the the films in hilarious yet heartfelt conversations.
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Title: Stars in the House
Character: Self
Released: March 16, 2020
Type: TV
In the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic and theatres across the world closing their curtains indefinitely, SiriusXM host Seth Rudetsky and his husband, producer James Wesley have created Stars in the House, a daily live streamed series to support The Actors Fund and its services.
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Lamp Life
Title: Lamp Life
Character: Bo Peep (voice)
Released: January 31, 2020
Type: Movie
Bo Peep explains what happened to herself and her sheep between the events of Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 4.
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Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters
Title: Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters
Character: Self
Released: January 7, 2020
Type: Movie
The documentary that tells us the full story from where it all started through to the future of the "Ghostbusters" franchise.
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Title: The Movies That Made Us
Character: Janine Melnitz (archive footage)
Released: November 29, 2019
Type: TV
These blockbusters brought us together and gave us the time of our lives. Meet the actors, directors and industry insiders who made them happen.
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Toy Story 4
Title: Toy Story 4
Character: Bo Peep (voice)
Released: June 19, 2019
Type: Movie
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.
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Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town
Title: Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town
Character: Mary
Released: June 22, 2018
Type: Movie
A woman at rock bottom must find her way across Los Angeles in order to crash her ex-boyfriend's engagement party.
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Happy Anniversary
Title: Happy Anniversary
Character: Diane
Released: March 30, 2018
Type: Movie
A quirky couple spends their three-year dating anniversary looking back at their relationship and contemplating whether they should break up.
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Title: Young Sheldon
Character: Connie Tucker
Released: September 25, 2017
Type: TV
The early life of child genius Sheldon Cooper, later seen in The Big Bang Theory.
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Humor Me
Title: Humor Me
Character: Dee
Released: June 16, 2017
Type: Movie
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.
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Ghostbusters
Title: Ghostbusters
Character: Desk Clerk
Released: July 14, 2016
Type: Movie
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.
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Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond
Title: Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond
Character: Self
Released: December 10, 2015
Type: Movie
Retrospective looking at the revolutionary computer-animated feature film Toy Story.
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Title: Chicago Med
Character: Helen
Released: November 17, 2015
Type: TV
An emotional thrill ride through the day-to-day chaos of the city's most explosive hospital and the courageous team of doctors who hold it together. They will tackle unique new cases inspired by topical events, forging fiery relationships in the pulse-pounding pandemonium of the emergency room.
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As Good As You
Title: As Good As You
Character: Dr. Laura Berg
Released: September 3, 2015
Type: Movie
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.
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Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
Title: Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
Released: June 15, 2014
Type: Movie
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.
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Chu and Blossom
Title: Chu and Blossom
Character: Aunt
Released: January 31, 2014
Type: Movie
A militant performance-artist and a tall Korean foreign-exchange student become trapped in a small Southern town.
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Title: The Fosters
Character: Sharon Elkin
Released: June 3, 2013
Type: TV
Stef Foster, a dedicated police officer, and her partner Lena Adams, a school vice principal, have built a close-knit, loving family with Stef's biological son from a previous marriage, Brandon, and their adopted twins, Mariana and Jesus. Their lives are disrupted in unexpected ways when Lena meets Callie, a hardened teen with an abusive past who has spent her life in and out of foster homes. Lena and Stef welcome Callie and her brother, Jude, into their home thinking it's just for a few weeks, until a more permanent placement can be found. But life has something else in store for the Fosters.
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Title: Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja
Character: Tawny Zingwald (voice)
Released: August 13, 2012
Type: TV
Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja is an American animated television series created by Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas for Disney XD. It is produced by Titmouse, Inc. and Boulder Media Limited. Many of the character designs were supplied by Jhonen Vasquez, the creator of Invader Zim. The series premiered on September 17, 2012.
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The Music Teacher
Title: The Music Teacher
Character: Alyson/Young Alyson
Released: August 11, 2012
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Scandal
Character: Louise Baker
Released: April 5, 2012
Type: TV
Everyone has secrets and Olivia Pope has dedicated her life to protecting and defending the public images of the elite by keeping those secrets under wraps. Pope and her team are at the top of their game when it comes to getting the job done for their clients, but it becomes apparent that these "gladiators in suits," who specialize in fixing the lives of other people, have trouble fixing those closest at hand -- their own.
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Title: GCB
Character: Gigi Stopper
Released: March 4, 2012
Type: TV
Amanda Vaughn, once the ultimate high school "mean girl," is forced to return home in disgrace after her marriage ends in scandal. As Amanda and her teenage kids try to adjust to their new lives, the ladies from her past alternate between sympathy and scheming.
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Five
Title: Five
Character: Helen
Released: October 10, 2011
Type: Movie
An anthology of five short films exploring the impact of breast cancer on people's lives.
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Title: Marry Me
Character: Vivienne Carter
Released: December 12, 2010
Type: TV
Rae Ann Carter always wanted the fairytale where she meets a prince, falls in love and gets married, but feared that dream would never come true. Suddenly, Rae goes from having no man in her life to having three – charming Luke, passionate Adam, and sophisticated Harry – all in love with Rae and asking to marry her. Which man will she choose?
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Title: The Talk
Character: Self
Released: October 18, 2010
Type: TV
A panel of well-known news and entertainment personalities discussing current events, pop culture, contemporary issues, family, celebrity and the trending topics of the day.
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Title: Fish Hooks
Character: Nurse Fishington (voice)
Released: September 3, 2010
Type: TV
This inventive animated comedy series, set inside a giant fish tank in Bud's Pet Shop, presents high school life as seen through the eyes of three BFFs (best fish friends), Bea, Milo and Oscar. Together they experience the typical life challenges and triumphs, including friendship, dating and sports, along with more atypical situations such as giant lobster attacks and, with the use of special land suits, school field trips to the hamster cages. The series was created by children's book illustrator Noah Z. Jones and features a notable voice cast. It's produced using an innovative mixture of digital animation and photo collage
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Don't You Forget About Me
Title: Don't You Forget About Me
Character: Self
Released: July 13, 2010
Type: Movie
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.
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Freshman Father
Title: Freshman Father
Character: Dorothy Downs
Released: June 5, 2010
Type: Movie
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.
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Queen Sized
Title: Queen Sized
Character: Joan Baker
Released: January 12, 2008
Type: Movie
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.
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The Sunday Man
Title: The Sunday Man
Character: Mrs. Culp
Released: March 28, 2007
Type: Movie
The misadventures of a remarkably peculiar man, who has some very unusual ideas about who he is.
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Title: Ugly Betty
Character: Linda
Released: September 28, 2006
Type: TV
Betty Suarez is smart, tough and tenacious, but also sensitive and loving. She hopes these skills will help her to get a job within the Meade Publishing Corporation. The fact that she isn’t traditionally attractive initially keeps her from getting hired by fashion bible, Mode. The magazine, however, is in flux, with power-hungry executives vying for dominance. Hoping to control the situation, the publisher gives his inexperienced son, Daniel, the position of Editor-in-Chief. He hires Betty as Daniel’s assistant after catching him in a compromising position with his secretary on his first day on the job. After a tough start, in which Daniel tries to force Betty into quitting by treating her terribly, he realizes her worth and the two pair up to be an effective team.
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Title: Men in Trees
Released: September 12, 2006
Type: TV
Relationship coach Marin Frist knows what to look for, what to avoid and what will make her happy. As the many fans of her two bestselling books could tell you, we're all in charge of our own happiness. But like many people full of advice, she fails to apply it to herself. On her way to a speaking engagement in Alaska, she learns that her fiancé has cheated on her. Slapped in the face with personal failure, a snowstorm then leaves her stuck in a small town full of the one thing she really doesn't need—available men.
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Title: Grey's Anatomy
Character: Joyce Bosco
Released: March 27, 2005
Type: TV
Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.
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Title: Boston Legal
Character: Joy Espenson
Released: October 3, 2004
Type: TV
Alan Shore and Denny Crane lead a brigade of high-priced civil litigators in an upscale Boston law firm in a series focusing on the professional and personal lives of brilliant but often emotionally challenged attorneys. A spin-off of long-running series The Practice.
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Elvis Has Left the Building
Title: Elvis Has Left the Building
Character: Shirl
Released: August 27, 2004
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Joan of Arcadia
Released: September 26, 2003
Type: TV
Joan Girardi has begun acting a little strange since her family moved to the city of Arcadia. No one knows that various people keep introducing themselves as God, and then giving the teenager specific directions to do things. Unsure of what God wants, and if she's even sane, Joan tentatively begins to follow God's cryptic directives, all the while trying to retain a "normal" teen-aged existence.
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Title: Two and a Half Men
Character: Lenore
Released: September 22, 2003
Type: TV
A hedonistic jingle writer's free-wheeling life comes to an abrupt halt when his brother and 10-year-old nephew move into his beach-front house.
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Defending Our Kids: The Julie Posey Story
Title: Defending Our Kids: The Julie Posey Story
Character: Julie Posey
Released: July 23, 2003
Type: Movie
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.
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Toy Story 2
Title: Toy Story 2
Character: Bo Peep (voice)
Released: October 30, 1999
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Sophie Devere
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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Title: Any Day Now
Character: Mary Elizabeth Sims
Released: August 18, 1998
Type: TV
Any Day Now is an American drama series that aired on the Lifetime network from 1998 to 2002. The show stars Annie Potts and Lorraine Toussaint as best friends of different races who grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, in the 1960s during the peak of the Civil Rights Movement. In every episode, contemporary storylines are interwoven with a storyline from their shared past.
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Title: Over the Top
Character: Hadley Martin
Released: October 21, 1997
Type: TV
Over the Top is an American sitcom starring Tim Curry, Annie Potts, and Steve Carell. The series premiered on ABC on October 21, 1997. Although 12 episodes were produced, the series was canceled after only three episodes had aired.
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Title: The View
Character: Self
Released: August 11, 1997
Type: TV
ABC Daytime's morning chatfest, currently featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Meghan McCain, and Abby Huntsman, discussing the most exciting events of the day. Hot topics in the news, the best experts in their field, celebrity interviews and general entertainment are all part of The View.
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The Story Behind 'Toy Story'
Title: The Story Behind 'Toy Story'
Character: Self
Released: December 18, 1996
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Dangerous Minds
Character: Louanne Johnson
Released: September 30, 1996
Type: TV
Dangerous Minds is an American drama television series that aired on ABC network between September 1996 and March 1997. The series is based on the motion picture film, Dangerous Minds. Annie Potts stars in the lead role originated by Michelle Pfeiffer.
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Title: The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Character: Self
Released: June 10, 1996
Type: TV
The Rosie O'Donnell Show was an American daytime television talk show hosted and produced by actress and comedian Rosie O'Donnell. It aired for six seasons from 1996 to 2002. Topics often discussed on the show include Broadway, children, extended families and charitable works, people and organizations. The show was based out of Studio 8G at NBC's Rockefeller Center studios in New York City, NY, USA and was produced and syndicated by KidRo Productions, Telepictures Productions and Warner Bros. Television.
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Making 'Toy Story'
Title: Making 'Toy Story'
Character: Narrated
Released: December 2, 1995
Type: Movie
Documentary of the making of the groundbreaking Disney/Pixar animated hit movie.
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Toy Story
Title: Toy Story
Character: Bo Peep (voice)
Released: October 30, 1995
Type: Movie
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.
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Her Deadly Rival
Title: Her Deadly Rival
Character: Kris Lansford
Released: September 19, 1995
Type: Movie
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."
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Breaking the Rules
Title: Breaking the Rules
Character: Mary Klinglitch
Released: October 9, 1992
Type: Movie
Two friends take their dying buddy on one last road trip.
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Title: Love & War
Character: Dana Palladino
Released: September 21, 1992
Type: TV
A woman running a bar in New York City while trying to maintain a romance with an egotistical opinion columnist.
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Texasville
Title: Texasville
Character: Karla Jackson
Released: September 28, 1990
Type: Movie
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?
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Hanna-Barbera's 50th
Title: Hanna-Barbera's 50th
Character: Self - Host
Released: July 17, 1989
Type: Movie
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.
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Ghostbusters II
Title: Ghostbusters II
Character: Janine Melnitz
Released: June 16, 1989
Type: Movie
Five years after they defeated Gozer, the Ghostbusters are out of business. When Dana begins to have ghost problems again, the boys come out of retirement to aid her and hopefully save New York City from a new paranormal threat.
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Who's Harry Crumb?
Title: Who's Harry Crumb?
Character: Helen Downing
Released: February 3, 1989
Type: Movie
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.
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Pass the Ammo
Title: Pass the Ammo
Character: Darla
Released: March 4, 1988
Type: Movie
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.
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She's Having a Baby
Title: She's Having a Baby
Character: Annie Potts (uncredited)
Released: February 5, 1988
Type: Movie
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.
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The Man Who Fell to Earth
Title: The Man Who Fell to Earth
Character: Louise
Released: August 22, 1987
Type: Movie
In this made-for-TV movie, an alien lands on earth, and decides that he needs to take a job in order to raise money to build a spaceship so he can get back to his home planet.
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Title: Designing Women
Character: Mary Jo Shively
Released: September 29, 1986
Type: TV
Julia Sugarbaker, Mary Jo Shively, Charlene Frazier-Stillfield and Suzanne Sugarbaker are associates at their design firm, Sugarbaker and Associates. Julia is the owner and is very outspoken and strong-willed. Mary Jo is a divorced single-parent whom is just as strong-willed as Julia, but isn't as self-confident. Charlene is the naive and trusting farm girl from Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Suzanne is the self-centered ex-beauty queen whom has a number of wealthy ex-husbands.
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Jumpin' Jack Flash
Title: Jumpin' Jack Flash
Character: Liz Carlson
Released: April 23, 1986
Type: Movie
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.
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Pretty in Pink
Title: Pretty in Pink
Character: Iona
Released: February 28, 1986
Type: Movie
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.
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Bayou Romance
Title: Bayou Romance
Character: Lily
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Amazing Stories
Character: Mrs. Bev Binford (voice)
Released: September 29, 1985
Type: TV
A truly amazing, fantastical, science fiction, funny and odd, and sometimes scary, sad and endearing anthology series presented by Steven Spielberg with guest appearances by many famous actors, actresses, and directors.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Released: September 27, 1985
Type: TV
This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two or three) rooted in horror or suspense, often with a surprising twist at the end. Episodes usually feature elements of drama and comedy.
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Title: Lime Street
Released: September 21, 1985
Type: TV
Lime Street is an American action/drama series that aired on the ABC television network during the 1985 television season. The series was created by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, who also served as executive producer alongside husband Harry Thomason and series star Robert Wagner. Robert Wagner is half of a crackerjack team of insurance investigators. A colorful British bachelor (John Standing) is the other half, and he resides in a castle outside London. This Lloyd's of London-type duo travel all over the world to crack some of the toughest insurance cases ever devised by a scriptwriter. Lew Ayres is Wagner's dapper Virginia countrygentleman father and the grandfather to Bob's motherless children.
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It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
Title: It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
Character: Cindy Mills
Released: December 15, 1984
Type: Movie
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.
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Crimes of Passion
Title: Crimes of Passion
Character: Amy Grady
Released: October 19, 1984
Type: Movie
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.
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Ghostbusters
Title: Ghostbusters
Character: Janine Melnitz
Released: June 8, 1984
Type: Movie
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.
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Why Me?
Title: Why Me?
Character: Daria
Released: March 12, 1984
Type: Movie
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.
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Cowboy
Title: Cowboy
Character: D.G.
Released: April 30, 1983
Type: Movie
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.
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Something So Right
Title: Something So Right
Character: Sunday
Released: November 30, 1982
Type: Movie
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 ...
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Title: Remington Steele
Character: Annie Carpenter
Released: October 1, 1982
Type: TV
Laura Holt, a licensed private detective, opens a detective agency but finds that potential clients refuse to hire a woman, however qualified. To solve the problem, Laura invents a fictitious male superior whom she names Remington Steele. Through a series of events that unfold in the first episode, "License to Steele," a former thief and con man, whose real name is never revealed, assumes the identity of Remington Steele. Behind the scenes, Laura remains firmly in charge.
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Heartaches
Title: Heartaches
Character: Bonnie Howard
Released: July 4, 1981
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Magnum, P.I.
Released: December 11, 1980
Type: TV
A private investigator who works when he wants, lives in a beachfront estate in Hawaii, drives a posh Ferrari, runs up an unlimited tab at a swank bar, and charms attractive women in peril - that's the lifestyle of Thomas Magnum, aka Magnum, P.I.
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The Scarlett O'Hara War
Title: The Scarlett O'Hara War
Character: Betty (uncredited)
Released: May 19, 1980
Type: Movie
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).
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Title: Goodtime Girls
Character: Edith Bedelmeyer
Released: January 22, 1980
Type: TV
Goodtime Girls is an American situation comedy which ran on ABC from January 22, 1980 until August 29, 1980. It was created by Leonora Thuna, and produced by Thomas L. Miller, Edward K. Milkis and Robert L. Boyett, in association with Garry Marshall's Henderson Productions and Paramount Television. It is a period piece comedy set during World War II, which was the producers' 1940s answer to their top 1950s-themed hits Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley.
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Black Market Baby
Title: Black Market Baby
Character: Linda Cleary
Released: October 18, 1979
Type: Movie
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.
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Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers
Title: Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers
Character: Flatbed Annie
Released: February 10, 1979
Type: Movie
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.
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King of the Gypsies
Title: King of the Gypsies
Character: Persa
Released: December 20, 1978
Type: Movie
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.
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Corvette Summer
Title: Corvette Summer
Character: Vanessa
Released: June 2, 1978
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Busting Loose
Released: January 17, 1977
Type: TV
Busting Loose is a 1977 United States comedic television series starring Adam Arkin which centers around a young man in New York City who has moved out of his parents' house to live on his own for the first time. The show aired on CBS between January 17, 1977, and November 16, 1977