Annie Potts is known for her roles in films such as Ghostbusters and Pretty in Pink. She made her debut on the big screen in the comedy Corvette Summer (1978) with Mark Hamill, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe. She had a seven-year stint as one of the stars of Designing Women and also voiced Bo Peep in the animated films Toy Story (1995), Toy Story 2 (1999) and Toy Story 4 (2019).

In 2017, Potts was cast to portray Meemaw in Young Sheldon, a spinoff of the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory. The series also features Iain Armitage, Raegan Revord, Lance Barber, Zoe Perry and Montana Jordan. Season six of Young Sheldon premieres September 29, 2022, and CBS renewed the show through to a seventh season.

In a newly published interview with Smashing Interviews Magazine, Young Sheldon star Potts explained why she was never really a Big Bang Theory watcher:

Smashing Interviews Magazine: Had you ever watched The Big Bang Theory when you were cast as Meemaw?

Annie Potts: I was not a Big Bang watcher, sort of not my generation. When I started this show, I watched it a few times just to see if there was something I needed to know, what had gone before me, but that’s in a galaxy far, far away for me. It was just a clean page to start on.

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