Cindy Pickett
Known for: Acting
Born: April 18, 1947
Place of birth: Sand Springs, Oklahoma, USA
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.
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Filmography
48 movies · 27 TV shows, newest first
5.5
Reunited Apart
2020
4.8
Age of the Living Dead
2018
6.8
Wrapped Up In Christmas
2017
5.8
Being Rose
2017
7.1
Te Ata
2017
4.5
Opus of an Angel
2017
7.1
The Cookie Mobster
2014
6.0
Stranded in Paradise
2014
6.6
The Client List
2012NR
Mother Country
2011
8.4
The Mentalist
2008
7.4
The Village Barbershop
2008
7.4
Saving Grace
2007
7.5
Burn Notice
2007
6.1
Sex and Death 101
2007
NR
Who Is Ferris Bueller?
2006
8.1
Ghost Whisperer
2005
5.7
Hate Crime
2005
7.5
Medium
2005
7.7
Cold Case
2003
7.2
Without a Trace
2002
7.7
CSI: Miami
2002
7.2
Crossing Jordan
2001
7.1
The Division
2001
4.2
The Stepdaughter
2000
5.6
The Huntress
2000
8.5
Hyperion Bay
1998
3.7
Atomic Dog
1998
5.3
Painted Hero
1997
5.4
The Killing Secret
1997
7.3
Kid Cop
1996
7.4
The Pretender
1996
5.5
The Making of a Hollywood Madam
1996
6.0
Coyote Summer
19967.2
Her Hidden Truth
1995
7.0
Not Our Son
1995
5.2
Evolver
1995
5.8
The Goodbye Bird
1994
6.0
Son in Law
1993
6.0
Wild Card
1992
4.2
Original Intent
1992
6.1
Sleepwalkers
1992
5.6
Crooked Hearts
19918.0
Our Shining Moment
1991
6.0
Plymouth
1991
NR
A Question About Sex
1990
6.7
I Know My First Name Is Steven
1989
5.5
DeepStar Six
1989
5.2
Hot to Trot
1988
5.9
She's Having a Baby
1988
6.6
Into the Homeland
1987
7.5
Echoes in the Darkness
1987
NR
Echoes in the Darkness
1987
5.7
Amerika
1987
4.0
The Men's Club
1986
7.1
L.A. Law
1986
7.6
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1986
7.2
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
1984
8.0
Call to Glory
1984
7.3
Call to Glory
1984
6.3
Brainwash
1983
4.3
Cocaine and Blue Eyes
1983
4.5
Hysterical
1982
5.7
St. Elsewhere
1982
7.2
Cry for the Strangers
1982
8.0
Breach of Contract
1982
6.7
Simon & Simon
1981
6.0
Margin for Murder
1981
9.5
Louis L'Amour's The Cherokee Trail
1981
7.3
Magnum, P.I.
1980
5.3
The Ivory Ape
1980
4.4
Night Games
1980
6.5
ABC Afterschool Special
1972NR
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