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The Sun
35 minutes ago
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Eighties movie star unrecognizable as she's spotted in LA – can you guess who she is?
AN EIGHTIES screen star cut a completely different figure as she ran errands in Los Angeles. The American actress, now 73, has been a firm fixture in film and TV and currently stars in Netflix hit Virgin River. 6 6 6 6 Yet Annette O'Toole left fans doing a double take as she showed off her unrecognisable appearance on a day away from the cameras. She pulled on an oversized long-sleeve lilac top paired with green trousers, covering up in a pair of sunglasses. The Superman star left her silver hair flowing over her shoulders and padded around Los Angeles in dark trainers. She clutched her car keys in one hand and what appeared to be a dry cleaning slip in another. Showing that - despite her A-List status - she's just like the rest of us, Texas screen star Annette was spotted collecting her laundry. Later on, she was seen with a black cross body bag and a camel-coloured coat after nipping back to her vehicle. She currently plays mayor Hope McCrea in Virgin River, yet has had a stellar screen career beforehand. The mum of two starred in Superman III alongside Christopher Reeve as well as in movies Cross My Heart and 48 Hours. On the small screen, she has starred in Smallville and the TV adaptation of Stephen King tome It, as well as in Nash Bridges. During her early film roles, her wavy brunette locks were on full display. They reached past shoulder height, but the star has now embraced her natural color and a shorter cut. In her recent snaps, she also went fresh-faced as opposed to made-up, showing off her natural beauty. PERILS OF THE JOB Annette, who is married to American actor and comedian Michael McKeen, recently opened up about feeling homesick after travelling around the globe with her job. She told Hello! about her Virgin River role, which sees her shooting in Vancouver, Canada, and admitted she missed her family. The star confessed: "Oh, many times – the whole time! "That's the hardest part about the show for me, it's being away from my family because my husband works as well and he's all over the place. "So he's in a different location and my kids are grown and all over the place. "My mom is 99. She's in LA, and that's hard too because I've been concerned about her, but she has wonderful help and we do the best we can like everyone. "We're all in the same boat where we're kind of split and trying to be in two places at once." 6 6
Daily Mail
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE She was Superman's sweetheart and later played his mother... see Annette O'Toole now at 73
Hollywood actress Annette O'Toole has packed a busy and varied career into the nearly six decades she has spent in showbiz. In 1983 she appeared as the title character's love interest Lana Lang in Superman III, starring Christopher Reeve during his iconic run as the Man of Steel. She was a fixture on TV in the 1990s, including on the police procedural Nash Bridges and the miniseries of Stephen King's evil clown book It. During the following decade she returned to the Superman universe on the hit CW show Smallville - this time in a far different role than the one she held before. Smallville featured Annette as Martha Kent, the adoptive mother of the hero's alter ego Clark Kent, who was played by Hollywood heartthrob Tom Welling. Now 73 years old and starring on the smash Netflix series Virgin River, Annette cut a sprightly figure when she surfaced in Los Angeles this week. In 1983 Annette O'Toole appeared as the title character's love interest Lana Lang in Superman III, starring Christopher Reeve during his iconic run as the Man of Steel Annette was spotted wearing a stylish ensemble as she collected her dry cleaning and carried it across the parking lot to her car. She slipped into a flowy purple V-neck blouse that fell flatteringly over her enviably lithe frame, teamed with a fitted set of moss green trousers. In spite of the summer heat, the native Texan came prepared for a potential dip in temperatures with a fashionable camel-toned jacket. Letting her grey hair tumble freely over her shoulders, she accessorized with tortoiseshell shades and a black cross-body handbag. Although she was born in Houston, she was living in Los Angeles with her family by the age of 13 - and two years later, she had made her TV debut with an appearance on the variety program The Danny Kaye Show. In the 1970s, she featured on a variety of hit shows ranging from Gunsmoke to Hawaii Five-O to The Partridge Family, and also acted in the darkly comic TV movie The Girl Most Likely To... starring Stockard Channing and written by Joan Rivers. That decade, she broke into the big screen with the beauty pageant satire Smile, playing one of the contestants in a cast that included Bruce Dern and Barbara Feldon. However her most famous role came in 1983 when she played Lana Lang, the love interest of Christopher Reeve's Clark Kent in Superman III. She was a fixture on TV in the 1990s, including on the police procedural Nash Bridges and the miniseries of Stephen King's evil clown book It In spite of the summer heat, the native Texan came prepared for a potential dip in temperatures with a fashionable camel-toned jacket Letting her grey hair tumble freely over her shoulders, she accessorized with tortoiseshell shades and a black cross-body handbag In the 1970s, she featured on a variety of hit shows ranging from Gunsmoke to Hawaii Five-O to The Partridge Family, and also acted in the darkly comic TV movie The Girl Most Likely To... That decade, she broke into the big screen with the beauty pageant satire Smile, playing one of the contestants in a cast that included Bruce Dern and Barbara Feldon Although the third film in the series was not the hit its predecessors had been, Annette still earned a soft spot in fans' hearts for her performance as Lana. She later described Christopher as 'fantastic' and 'so kind,' on the podcast Inside Of You hosted by her Smallville co-star Michael Rosenbaum. When she first came to the set 'Chris Reeve invited me to his home, and he had his wife or his girlfriend and two little darling children and we had children, and we had dinner, and he took me to see Simon and Garfunkel at Wembley Stadium,' she said. 'I didn't know him at all, and that was just like his way – gave me food and tickets and stuff. And then we were shooting at Pinewood, and he took me down to the commissary and he said: "Start a tab for her here at the commissary,"' she recalled. 'I never went again because, you know – I'd bring my cheese and crackers from home – but he couldn't have been more generous and sweet,' shared Annette. For weeks, she only filmed with him as Clark Kent, so that when she finally saw him in full Superman uniform she was left thunderstruck. Annette confessed that in that moment she 'started to kind of like stutter and got chills, and there was Superman. It wasn't Chris. He was in the whole gear. And talking about it now, I get chills thinking about it.' As the 1990s rolled along, she earned another place in fantasy history by featuring in the famed miniseries of Stephen King's It as the adult version of Beverley Marsh, one of the people who encountered the demon clown Pennywise during her childhood. During the same decade she earned an Emmy nod for playing John F. Kennedy's mother Rose on the ABC miniseries The Kennedys of Massachusetts. Her triumphant return to the Superman world came in 2001 when she started starring on Smallville as Clark Kent's adoptive mother Martha. She remained a series regular for the first six seasons, leaving once her contract was up and guesting sporadically on the show for the final two seasons. 'As time went on for the series, it was a little frustrating that there wasn't more for Martha to do,' Annette admitted to the fan site the Daily Planet. 'I was kind of just doing the same scenes over and over again.' During the 2000s and 2010s, she continued guesting on beloved TV shows including Law & Order, Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice. Since 2019 she has been starring on Netflix' smash hit romantic Western series Virgin River as Hope McCrea, the mayor of the titular California town. On the personal front, she has been married to Best in Show and This Is Spinal Tap star Michael McKean since 1999, and has two daughters by her first husband Bill Geisslinger, whom she was married to from 1983 to 1993.
