Editing Annie Potts (section)

==Early life and education==
Potts was born in [[Nashville|Nashville, Tennessee]],<ref>{{cite news | first = Brandy Hilboldt | last = Allport | url = http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/102806/lif_5772890.shtml | title = A.M.Stir | work = The Florida Times-Union | date = October 28, 2006 | access-date = April 24, 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070929095852/http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/102806/lif_5772890.shtml | archive-date = September 29, 2007 | url-status=dead }}</ref> the third child of Dorothy Harris (née Billingslea) and Powell Grisette Potts. She has two older sisters. They grew up in [[Franklin, Kentucky]], where she graduated from [[Franklin-Simpson High School]] in 1970.<ref>1970 Franklin-Simpson High School yearbook</ref>

She attended [[Stephens College]] in [[Columbia, Missouri]], and graduated with a [[bachelor's degree]] in theater. Potts and her first husband, Steven Hartley, were in a car crash that left several bones below her waist broken,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/diet-fitness/personal-training/tips-from-greg-vanvakaris.htm|title=Tips From Greg Vanvakaris, DC, CSCS|work=HowStuffWorks|access-date=October 20, 2014|date=September 29, 2010|archive-date=August 2, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140802213613/http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/diet-fitness/personal-training/tips-from-greg-vanvakaris.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> including compound fractures to both legs, and caused the loss of the heel of her right foot. Hartley also lost his left leg.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/was-the-wampa-attack-in-e_b_8035468|title=Was the Wampa Attack in Empire Strikes Back Created to Explain Mark Hamill's Facial Injuries?|date=August 25, 2015|access-date=December 23, 2019|archive-date=August 15, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200815075717/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/was-the-wampa-attack-in-e_b_8035468|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>Working Mother, January 1997, p. 25</ref>