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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.
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