Cindy Pickett

She is known for her 1970s role as Jackie MarlerSpaulding on the CBS soap Guiding Light her role as Dr. Carol Novino on the television drama St. Elsewhere in the 1980s for her critically acclaimed performance as the reallife 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 Vadims littleknown 1980 erotic cult film, Jeux de Nuit Night Games, for which she would have the leading role, and as the toughasnails and heroic Dr. Jane Norris in the 1989 scifihorror film DeepStar Six.

Pickett was born in Sand Springs, Oklahoma, daughter of Cecil Pickett, a director and drama teacher at the University of Houston. She dated Roger Vadim, who directed her in Night Games. She met Lyman Ward, on the set of Ferris Buellers Day Off , and were married not long after. In 1992, they filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences.

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