Meredith Monroe

Earlier work included TV ads for everything from Walt Disney World Resort to L'Oréal. McKean also became part of the Superman mythos when he guest starred on Smallville playing a younger Perry White. In two television movies in 2000 and 2002 she played Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the Little House on the Prairie books. Annette has been married to actor Michael McKean since 1999, and in 2003 the duo were nominated for an Academy Award, among others, for their song A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow - a love duet that they had written, which was performed in the movie A Mighty Wind. She was born in Houston, Texas and grew up in Hinsdale, Illinois. She has also performed in a number of successful theater productions. In October 2001, she returned to the Superman mythos in the role of Martha Kent, Clark Kent/Superman's mother, in the television series Smallville, a role she continues to play today. Meredith Hoyt Monroe (born December 30, 1976) is an American actress best known as Andie McPhee on Dawson's Creek, from 1998 to 2000. She had a recurring roles on the television show Nash Bridges (1996), and The Huntress (2000).

In 1990 she starred in a remake of A Girl of the Limberlost, and in Stephen King's "It". 1983 saw her play the part of Lois Lane's arch-rival Lana Lang in Superman III (1983). In the same year, she appeared opposite Nastassja Kinski in Cat People. Although she appeared in a number of television and theatrical movies from 1973 onward (notably as Tammy Wynette in 1981's Stand By Your Man), her first major role was as Nick Nolte's loyal girlfriend in 48 Hrs. (1982).

Annette began acting at a very young age doing guest appearances in shows such as My Three Sons (1960), The Virginian (1962), Gunsmoke (1955), and The Partridge Family (1970). Annette O'Toole (born April 1, 1955 in Houston, Texas, USA) is an American dancer and actress.