Portrait of Cindy Pickett

Cindy Pickett

Acting

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Cindy Lou Pickett (born April 18, 1947) is an American actress best known for her 1970s role as Jackie Marler-Spaulding on the CBS soap Guiding Light; her role as Dr. Carol Novino on the hugely-popular television drama St. Elsewhere in the 1980s; for her critically acclaimed performance as the real-life Kay Stayner, the mother of a boy who was kidnapped for several years, in the dramatic TV movie I Know My First Name Is Steven; and for her cinematic roles and performances as Valerie St. John in Roger Vadim's little-known 1980 erotic cult film, Night Games, for which she would have the leading role, and as the tough-as-nails and heroic Dr. Jane Norris in the 1989 sci-fi-horror film DeepStar Six. Pickett, however, is handily best-known to audiences for her highly memorable turn as Katie Bueller, Matthew Broderick's titular character's loving and unsuspecting mother, in the 1986 classic and iconic American comedy movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

Born: April 18, 1947

Place of Birth: Sand Springs, Oklahoma, USA

Filmography

2020
2017
2017
Being Rose

as Karen

2017
Te Ata

as Miss Davis

2017
Opus of an Angel

as Sister Monica

2014
The Cookie Mobster

as Mrs. Bartlomei

2014
Stranded in Paradise

as Mona Nelson

2012
The Client List

as Linette's Customer

2008
The Mentalist

as Marcia Wilk

2007
Burn Notice

as Diane

2007
Sex and Death 101

as Roderick's Mother

2005
Ghost Whisperer

as Marybeth Kaminsky

2005
Hate Crime

as Barbara McCoy

2005
Medium

as Tanya King

2003
Cold Case

as Sara Lowell / Johanna Kimball (2007)

2002
Without a Trace

as Female Art Buyer

2002
CSI: Miami

as Miranda Lewis

2001
Crossing Jordan

as Laura Corday

2001
The Division

as Mrs. Burke

2000
The Stepdaughter

as Maggie Conner

1998
Hyperion Bay

as Marjorie Sweeney

1998
Atomic Dog

as Jennifer Yates

1997
Painted Hero

as Sadie

1997
The Killing Secret

as Mrs. Voss

1996
Kid Cop

as Beverly Dwerkin

1996
The Pretender

as Dr. Shafton

1996
Coyote Summer

as Maggie Foster

1995
Not Our Son

as Margaret Keller

1995
Evolver

as Melanie Baxter

1994
The Goodbye Bird

as Sharon Phillips

1993
Son in Law

as Connie Warner

1992
Wild Card

as Dana

1992
Original Intent

as Marguerite

1992
Sleepwalkers

as Mrs. Robertson

1991
Crooked Hearts

as Jill Warren

1991
Plymouth

as Addy Mathewson

1990
A Question About Sex

as Joanne Kelly

1989
DeepStar Six

as Dr. Diane Norris

1988
Hot to Trot

as Victoria Peyton

1988
She's Having a Baby

as Cindy Pickett (uncredited)

1987
1987
1987
Amerika

as Amanda Bradford

1987
Into the Homeland

as Rye Swallow

1986
1986
L.A. Law

as Lois Alner

1986
Ferris Bueller's Day Off

as Katie Bueller

1984
Murder, She Wrote

as Joanna Simms

1984
Call to Glory

as Vanessa Sarnac

1984
Call to Glory

as Vanessa Sarnac

1983
Brainwash

as Lyn Nilsson

1983
Cocaine and Blue Eyes

as Catherine Anatole

1982
Hysterical

as Kate

1982
St. Elsewhere

as Carol Novino

1982
Cry for the Strangers

as Elaine Russell

1981
1980
Magnum, P.I.

as Karen Teal

1980
The Ivory Ape

as Lil Tyler

1980
Night Games

as Valerie St. John

1972