Annette O’Toole

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Annette O’Toole (born Annette Toole; April 1, 1952) is an American actress. She is known for portraying Lisa Bridges in the television series Nash Bridges, adult Beverly Marsh in the 1990 television mini-series adaptation of Stephen King’s epic horror novel It, Lana Lang in Superman III, Kathy in the romantic-comedy film Cross My Heart, Annie Hodges in The Man Next Door and Martha Kent (the adoptive mother of Clark Kent) on the television series Smallville.

O’Toole was born in Houston, the daughter of Dorothy Geraldine (née Niland) and William West Toole Jr. Her mother taught dance, which O’Toole herself began learning at the age of three. She started taking acting lessons after her family moved to Los Angeles when she was 13.

O’Toole’s first television appearance was in 1967 on The Danny Kaye Show, followed over the next few years with guest appearances in shows such as My Three Sons, The Virginian, Gunsmoke, Hawaii Five-O, and The Partridge Family.
Her first major film role was as a jaded beauty pageant contestant in the 1975 satire Smile; she got the role after doing an impression of a “dead cockroach” at the audition. She…