Appearances: S1: Pilot, Hothead, X-Ray, Craving, Shimmer, Leech, Kinetic; S2: Duplicity, Redux, Ryan; S6: Promise
Family: ancestor, Countess Isobel Thoreaux; aunt, Louise McCallum; uncle, Dexter McCallum; sister, Laura Lang; brother-in-law, Lewis Lang; husband, Dean Winters; niece, Lana Lang
Bio: Nell Winters, née Potter, is a former florist from Smallville, Kansas. In high school, she'd dated local farmboy and tailback for the Smallville High Crows, Jonathan Kent, a fling that had lasted long enough or been intense enough that she'd been disappointed when he'd ended up married to Martha Clark of Metropolis. Sometime in the 1980s, she'd opened her own flower shop on Main Street, having also bought the Talon movie theater next to it where her sister Laura had met and fallen in love with Lewis Lang. In 1989, while Lewis and Laura had been attending the Smallville High homecoming game, Nell had played the "good aunt" by babysitting her then three-year-old niece Lana. After the game, however, a meteor shower had struck the town, striking down Lewis and Laura as Nell and Lana had looked on in horror. Since then, she'd taken over care of her niece, eventually adopting her and giving her a necklace commemorating the adoption made up of the meteor that had killed Lana's parents. In 2002, following tornadoes that had devastated the town, Nell had met and fallen in love with insurance adjuster Dean Winters, eventually deciding to move with him to Metropolis and get married. However, since Lana had refused to uproot her own life, Nell had allowed her niece to stay with Chloe Sullivan and her father Gabe to finish out high school. In 2007, Nell had returned to Smallville, however briefly, to attend Lana's wedding to billionaire Lex Luthor.
Portrayed By: Sarah-Jane Redmond
Nell Potter, 1989 S1: Pilot |
Nell Potter Winters, 2007 S6: Promise |
