As She Approaches 70, Annie Potts Is Done Playing by Anyone Else's Rules
glamour.comBy Annie Potts may not realize it, but a chat with her is like reading Chicken Soup for the Soul. In her almost 70 years on earth, she’s picked up enough life lessons to turn into several self-help books and doesn't mind sharing her wisdom.
Not in a demanding “Honey, you need to do this” way—but rather, Potts drops the kind of soft-spoken insights that creep up on you later, when you realize the gift you've been given.On this particular morning, the actor, best known for playing Mary Jo Shively in Designing Women, an ‘80s sitcom , is Zooming with me from her home in Los Angeles when I comment that we’ve both embraced the pinstripe shirt. “I’ve got 10,000 stripes going on,” she says with a laugh. “I now believe in a design theory that says everything goes with everything and it doesn’t really matter.
I like it.” Born in Nashville and raised in Kentucky, the Stevens College grad says acting was the only thing she wanted to do growing up. “There was no plan B.
Nothing. I have no other skills. Luckily that worked out.”If Potts were to write a memoir, a fitting title would be That Worked Out, especially when it comes to her latest role as Meemaw, Sheldon’s spitfire grandmother in prequel series Young Sheldon.
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