Cindy Pickett

Biography

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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.

Known For

The Client List 2012 ★ 6.6
The Mentalist 2008 ★ 8.4
Burn Notice 2007 ★ 7.5
Saving Grace 2007 ★ 7.4
Ghost Whisperer 2005 ★ 8.1
Medium 2005 ★ 7.5
Cold Case 2003 ★ 7.7
CSI: Miami 2002 ★ 7.7
Without a Trace 2002 ★ 7.2
Crossing Jordan 2001 ★ 7.2
The Division 2001 ★ 7.1
The Huntress 2000 ★ 5.6
Hyperion Bay 1998 ★ 8.5
The Pretender 1996 ★ 7.4
Son in Law 1993 ★ 6.0
Sleepwalkers 1992 ★ 6.1
L.A. Law 1986 ★ 7.1
Ferris Bueller's Day Off 1986 ★ 7.6
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1985 ★ 7.2
Murder, She Wrote 1984 ★ 7.5
St. Elsewhere 1982 ★ 5.7
Simon & Simon 1981 ★ 6.7
Magnum, P.I. 1980 ★ 7.3
ABC Afterschool Special 1972 ★ 6.5