Annette O'Toole (born Annette Toole; April 1, 1952) is an American actress and dancer, as well as an Academy Award-nominated songwriter. She is known for her role of Martha Kent, the mother of Clark Kent on television's Smallville.
O'Toole was born in Houston, Texas, the daughter of Dorothy Geraldine (née Niland) and William West Toole, Jr. She began acting at a very young age, doing guest appearances in shows such as My Three Sons (1960), The Vi...
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Annette O'Toole (born Annette Toole; April 1, 1952) is an American actress and dancer, as well as an Academy Award-nominated songwriter. She is known for her role of Martha Kent, the mother of Clark Kent on television's Smallville.
O'Toole was born in Houston, Texas, the daughter of Dorothy Geraldine (née Niland) and William West Toole, Jr. She began acting at a very young age, doing guest appearances in shows such as My Three Sons (1960), The Virginian (1962), Gunsmoke (1955), Hawaii Five-O (1968), and The Partridge Family (1970).
O'Toole's first major film role was as a jaded beauty pageant contestant in the satirical Smile in 1975. She also appeared as Robby Benson's tutor/girlfriend in the college basketball story One on One in 1977. In 1981, she starred in the HBO onstage production of Vanities, as well as in the made-for-TV Movie Stand By Your Man, which detailed the life of country music legend Tammy Wynette. Later on in 1982, she appeared briefly as Nick Nolte's girlfriend in...
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