Cindy Pickett
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.
75 acting credits
Acting · 75
The Mentalist
2008
Medium
2005
CSI: Miami
2002
Without a Trace
2002
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Ghost Whisperer
2005
Crossing Jordan
2001
Cold Case
2003
Burn Notice
2007
Magnum, P.I.
1980
St. Elsewhere
1982
Simon & Simon
1981
L.A. Law
1986
The Division
2001
The Pretender
1996
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985
Saving Grace
2007
ABC Afterschool Special
1972
The Client List
2012
Reunited Apart
2020
The Huntress
2000
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1986
Sleepwalkers
1992
Call to Glory
1984
I Know My First Name Is Steven
1989
Amerika
1987
Sex and Death 101
2007
Hyperion Bay
1998
Son in Law
1993
Age of the Living Dead
2018
DeepStar Six
1989
Echoes in the Darkness
1987
She's Having a Baby
1988
Hysterical
1982
Hate Crime
2005
Evolver
1995
Wrapped Up In Christmas
2017
Hot to Trot
1988
Echoes in the Darkness
1987
The Men's Club
1986
Crooked Hearts
1991
Stranded in Paradise
2014
The Killing Secret
1997
Into the Homeland
1987
Brainwash
1983
The Cookie Mobster
2014
Te Ata
2017
Plymouth
1991
The Stepdaughter
2000
The Ivory Ape
1980
Original Intent
1992
Night Games
1980
Coyote Summer
1996
Call to Glory
1984
Wild Card
1992
Painted Hero
1997
Cocaine and Blue Eyes
1983
Being Rose
2017
The Village Barbershop
2008
Her Hidden Truth
1995
Not Our Son
1995
Breach of Contract
1982
Cry for the Strangers
1982
Opus of an Angel
2017
Atomic Dog
1998
The Making of a Hollywood Madam
1996
Kid Cop
1996
Margin for Murder
1981
Who Is Ferris Bueller?
2006
The Goodbye Bird
1994
Louis L'Amour's The Cherokee Trail
1981
Our Shining Moment
1991
Mother Country
2011
A Question About Sex
1990
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