Cindy Pickett
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.
Movie Appearances
Hot to Trot
as Victoria Peyton
1988
DeepStar Six
as Dr. Diane Norris
1989
Hate Crime
as Barbara McCoy
2005
Son in Law
as Connie Warner
1993
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
as Katie Bueller
1986
Into the Homeland
as Rye Swallow
1987
Breach of Contract
1982
The Cookie Mobster
as Mrs. Bartlomei
2014
Call to Glory
as Vanessa Sarnac
1984
Evolver
as Melanie Baxter
1995
Hysterical
as Kate
1982
Brainwash
as Lyn Nilsson
1983
Crooked Hearts
as Jill Warren
1991
The Men's Club
as Hannah
1986
Plymouth
as Addy Mathewson
1991
Painted Hero
as Sadie
1997
Cry for the Strangers
as Elaine Russell
1982
Echoes in the Darkness
as Sue Myers
1987
The Goodbye Bird
as Sharon Phillips
1994
Night Games
as Valerie St. John
1980
TV Appearances
Murder, She Wrote
as Joanna Simms
1984
Magnum, P.I.
as Karen Teal
1980
L.A. Law
as Lois Alner
1986
Ghost Whisperer
as Marybeth Kaminsky
2005
CSI: Miami
as Miranda Lewis
2002
The Division
as Mrs. Burke
2001
The Pretender
as Dr. Shafton
1996
Simon & Simon
1981
Cold Case
as Sara Lowell / Johanna Kimball (2007)
2003
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Marcia Loomis
1985
Burn Notice
as Diane
2007
The Huntress
2000