Cindy Pickett

Cindy Lou Pickett (born April 18, 1947) is an American actress. She is known for her 1970s role as Jackie Marler-Spaulding on the CBS soap Guiding Light and Dr. Carol Novino on the television drama St.

Elsewhere in the 1980s. Pickett, however, is best known to audiences for her lighter turn as Katie Bueller, Ferris Bueller's loving and unsuspecting mother, in the 1986 American comedy movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Other notable cinematic roles and performances include Valerie St. John, the leading role in Roger Vadim's 1980 film, Jeux de Nuit / Night Games, and the heroic, tough-as-nails Dr. Diane Norris, executive officer of the under-siege, deep-sea scientific research station in the 1989 sci-fi-horror film DeepStar Six.

Born on April 18, 1947, in Norman, Oklahoma and raised in Sand Springs, Oklahoma and Houston, Texas, Pickett is the daughter of Millie and Cecil J. Pickett (the latter an influential drama teacher/director at Bellaire High School, Houston Baptist College and the University of Houston). In Houston, Pickett attended Jane Long Junior High School and Bellaire High School; next came Jacksonville's Lon Morris College—under the tutelage of another widely revered Texas-based teacher-director, LMC drama department founder Lula Pearson—and the University of Texas at Austin. Returning home, Pickett attended Houston Baptist College and the University of Houston, once again studying with—and being directed by—her father, as well as performing in a repertory company alongside similarly Hollywood-bound classmates such as Randy Quaid, Trey Wilson, and Brent Spiner (then Brent Mintz).

Born 1947-04-18 in Sand Springs, Oklahoma, USA.

On ThumbScore, Cindy Pickett appears in 2 films with an average audience score of 85.0%, most frequently in the Comedy genre.

Sources: Wikipedia, TMDB