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
Her movies included a 1987 romantic comedy called Cross My Heart, starring her and Martin Short as two people on a third date trying to conceal certain home truths.
Two decades later 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 series Virgin River, she cut a fashionable figure while dashing around 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
O'Toole played Clark Kent's adoptive mother on Smallville, for which she is pictured with her screen husband John Schneider (left) and screen son Tom Welling (right)
Her movies included a 1987 romantic comedy called Cross My Heart, starring her and Martin Short as two people on a third date trying to conceal certain home truths
Her willowy frame was draped in a flowing true blue jacket and a set of acid-wash jeans, teamed with a snappy set of brown leather boots.
O'Toole wore her luxurious grey-tinged brown locks down, framing her luminous complexion as she set about her errands for the day.
Annette, who is pictured with Christopher in Superman III, later described Christopher as 'fantastic' and 'so kind,' on the podcast Inside Of You
Annette, pictured on Smallville, later admitted of the series: 'As time went on for the series, it was a little frustrating that there wasn’t more for Martha to do'
O'Toole harbored fond memories of working with Short on Cross My Heart, saying she 'would go home with my face aching because I had been laughing so hard'
However she harbored fond memories of working with Short, saying she 'would go home with my face aching because I had been laughing so hard,' on the podcast Really Famous hosted by therapist Kara Mayer Robinson.
