Josie Davis

Annette O'Toole was raised in Houston Texas in the dance studio of her mother. at the age of two, she was the first to appear on television when she was a kid on the Don Mahoney Children's Trooper program. After ten years in dancing and singing lessons Her mother and her traveled on a journey to L.A. to try and see if a show business career was possible. In less than two weeks, she was offered her first paying job dancing in the Danny Kaye Show with Danny Kaye. "I've employed my dancing and singing lessons in so many ways," she says. "The mental discipline gained from these classes is a huge benefit as an actor." The first time she acted was My Three Sons, followed by appearances in Gunsmoke, The Partridge Family, The Mod Squad, as well as Hawaii Five-O. O'Toole has starred in over 40 TV shows. Although she is famous both in television and film she is a theater enthusiast. The actress decided after her run of six years on Smallville was finished, to devote herself exclusively to theater. This is exactly what she has been doing since the beginning of this decade. She moved to New York and her first audition landed her part of The Sea Gull. She's been in numerous Off-Broadway shows, including Adam Rapp's Kindness Tracy Letts' Man from Nebraska and Tennessee Williams' A Lovely Sunday for Creve Couer.