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Annie Potts

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Annie Potts: Biography

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Birth Place: Nashville, TN
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 10/28/1952, Scorpio
Profession: Actor; producer

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Annie Potts Fast Facts:

Joined a road-company production of Charley's Aunt in 1976.
Made her TV-movie debut in 1977's Black Market Baby.
Best-known for her seven-year stint as Mary Jo Shively on Designing Women.
Made her New York stage debut in 2000 in a production of The Vagina Monologues.
Returned to her alma mater Stephens College in 2003 to perform in a production of Stephen Sondheim's musical A Little Night Music and teach a master class to theater students.

Annie Potts Relationships:
Powell Grisette Potts - Father
Dorothy Harris Billingslea - Mother
Mary Eleanor Hovious - Sister
Elizabeth Grisette Potts - Sister
Steven Hartley - Ex-husband
B. Scott Senechal - Ex-husband
Clay Samuel Senechal - Son
James Hayman - Husband
James Powell Hayman - Son
Isaac Harris Hayman - Son
Annie Potts Awards:
1979 Golden Globe: New Star of the Year - Actress - Nominee
1999 Screen Actors Guild Awards: Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series - Nominee
1998 Screen Actors Guild Awards: Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series - Nominee
1994 Emmy: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series - Nominee
College:
Attended California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA; Stephens College, Columbia, MO (BFA in Theater, 1973)

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GCB, Colton Shires, Annie Potts, Leslie Bibb Karen Neal/ABC

Marry Me, Annie Potts Annette Brown/Lifetime

Two and a Half Men, Jon Cryer, Annie Potts Greg Gayne/Warner Bros.

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