Annette O’Toole

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Actress • Dancer • Singer • Songwriter

Birth Date: April 1, 1952

Age: 71 years old

Birth Place: Houston, Texas

Annette O'Toole grew up in the Houston dance studio run by her mother. She made her television debut at the age of two, as a kid on a weekly local talent show, "The Don Mahoney Kiddie Trooper Show." When she was 13, with ten years of singing and dancing lessons behind her, she and her mother went to L.A. for a year to see if she could have a career in show business. Within two months, she got her first professional job: dancing with Danny Kaye on "The Danny Kaye Show (CBS, 1963-67)." O'Toole began her acting career in earnest with an episode of "Gunsmoke." She made her feature film debut as a savvy beauty contestant in "Smile" (1975) and next was Robby Benson's leading lady in "One on One" (1977). O'Toole then had a role opposite Eric Roberts in "King of the Gypsies" (1978), in which he was a gypsy warring with his family and his background and she was his "American" girlfriend. She has subsequently played Lana Lang, the high school sweetheart of Clark Kent in "Superman III" (1983) and co-starred with Martin Short in "Cross My Heart" (1987). O'Toole made her TV-movie debut with "The Girl Most Likely To..." (ABC, 1973) and played country singer Tammy Wynette in the biopic, "Stand By Your Man" (CBS, 1981). Among her other roles were Lola Lamar, love interest for Barry Manilow in his TV-movie debut, "Copacabana" (CBS, 1985), Pamela Sue Martin's roommate, a woman who only wants to get married, in the syndicated "Arthur Hailey's Strong Medicine" (1986), the wife of Oliver North (David Keith) in "Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North" (CBS, 1989), and Rose Kennedy, matriarch of "The Kennedys of Massachusetts" (ABC, 1990). In 1996, starred as Don Johnson's ex-wife in her first TV series, "Nash Bridges" (CBS, 1995-2000). Among others, O'Toole has since had regular roles on "Smallville" (WB/CW, 2001-10), "The Punisher" (Netflix, 2017-19) and "Virgin River" (Netflix, 2019-).

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Hope McCrea
Series
2019
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Blow the Man Down

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Gail Maguire
Movie
2019

The Incoherents

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Mrs. Graham
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2019

A Futile and Stupid Gesture

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Doug's Mom
Movie
2018

The Good DoctorStream

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Caroline Reznik
Series
2017

We Go On

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Charlotte
Movie
2016

Women Who Kill

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Lila
Movie
2016

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Amelia Zuransky
Series
2015
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Halt and Catch FireStream

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Susan Emerson
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2014
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Beach Pillows

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Rita Midwood
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2013

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2012

Overheard With Evan Smith

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2010

Lie to MeStream

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Veronica Sloan
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2009

Falling Up

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Grace O' Shea
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2009

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Janet
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2007

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2005
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Tentation

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2003

Temptation

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Nora Carver Huff
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2003

Temptation

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2003

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Martha Kent
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2001
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Martha Kent
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2001
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The Huntress

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Dorothy 'Dottie' Thorson
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2000

The Huntress

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Dorothy "Dottie" Thorson
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2000

Here on Earth

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Jo Cavanaugh
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2000

Final Justice

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Gwen Saticoy
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1998

Keeping the Promise

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Anne Hallowell
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1997

Final Descent

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Connie Phipps
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1997

Nash Bridges

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1996

Nash Bridges

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1996

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Annie Hodges
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1996

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1995

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1995

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Joann Bradley
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1995

The Christmas Box

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Keri Evans
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1995

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1994

Imaginary Crimes

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Ginny Rucklehaus
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1994

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Rhiannon Lawrence
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1993

Love Matters

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Julie
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1993

A Mother's Revenge

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Ellen Wells
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1993

Jewels

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Sarah Thompson Whitfield
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1992

Kiss of a Killer

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Kate Wilson
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1992

Mentira Blanca

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1991

White Lie

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Helen Lester
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1991

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Beverly Marsh
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1990

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1990

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1990

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Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
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1990

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1990

Love at Large

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Mrs. King
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1990

IT

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Beverly Marsh
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1990

The Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story

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Maud Gage Baum
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1990

A Girl of the Limberlost

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Kate Comstock
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1989

Guts & Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North

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Betsy North
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1989

Cross My Heart

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Kathy
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1987

Chasse à coeurs

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1987

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Nana Marie "Nim" Fitzpatrick
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1987

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1985

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1985

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Stella
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1985

Copacabana

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Lola Lamar
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1985

Strong Medicine

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Jessica Weitz
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1985

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Lana Lang
Movie
1983
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Alice Perrin
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1982
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Elaine
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1982
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Stand by Your Man

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Tammy Wynette
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1981

Foolin' Around

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Susan
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1980

Love for Rent

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Carol Martin
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1979

King of the Gypsies

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Sharon
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1978

The War Between the Tates

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Wendy Geoghegan
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1977

One on One

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Janet Hays
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1977

Smile

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Doria
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1975

The Entertainer

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Bambi Pasko
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1975

Police Woman

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Donna Hess
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1974

Barnaby JonesStream

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1973

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Carol
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1970

Dan August

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Robbie Wagner
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1970

Men From Shiloh

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Lark Walters
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1970

Mod Squad

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Lorrie Coleman
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1968

My Three SonsStream

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1960

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Edda Sprague
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1955

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