​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.

Filmography

• Age of the Living Dead — Amanda
• 2017Being Rose — Karen
• 2017Opus of an Angel — Sister Monica
• 2017Te Ata — Miss Davis
• 2017Wrapped Up In Christmas — Patty McKee
• 2014Stranded in Paradise — Mona Nelson
• 2014The Cookie Mobster — Mrs. Bartlomei
• The Client List — Linette's Customer
• 2011Mother Country — Pamela Dupree
• The Mentalist — Marcia Wilk
• 2008The Village Barbershop — Josie
• Burn Notice — Diane
• Saving Grace — Mrs. Kramer
• 2007Sex and Death 101 — Roderick's Mother
• Ghost Whisperer — Marybeth Kaminsky
• 2005Hate Crime — Barbara McCoy
• Medium — Tanya King
• Cold Case — Sara Lowell / Johanna Kimball (2007)
• CSI: Miami — Miranda Lewis
• Without a Trace — Female Art Buyer
• Crossing Jordan — Laura Corday
• The Division — Mrs. Burke
• The Huntress
• 2000The Stepdaughter — Maggie Conner
• 1998Atomic Dog — Jennifer Yates
• Hyperion Bay — Marjorie Sweeney
• 1997Painted Hero — Sadie
• 1997The Killing Secret — Mrs. Voss
• 1996Coyote Summer — Maggie Foster
• 1996Kid Cop — Beverly Dwerkin
• 1996The Making of a Hollywood Madam — Elissa Fleiss
• The Pretender — Dr. Shafton
• 1995Evolver — Melanie Baxter
• 1995Her Hidden Truth — Laney Devereaux
• 1995Not Our Son — Margaret Keller
• 1994The Goodbye Bird — Sharon Phillips
• 1993Son in Law — Connie Warner
• 1992Original Intent — Marguerite
• 1992Sleepwalkers — Mrs. Robertson
• 1992Wild Card — Dana
• 1991Crooked Hearts — Jill Warren
• 1991Our Shining Moment — Betty McGuire
• 1991Plymouth — Addy Mathewson
• 1990A Question About Sex — Joanne Kelly
• 1989DeepStar Six — Dr. Diane Norris
• I Know My First Name Is Steven — Kay Stayner
• 1988Hot to Trot — Victoria Peyton
• 1988She's Having a Baby — Cindy Pickett (uncredited)
• Amerika — Amanda Bradford
• 1987Echoes in the Darkness — Sue Myers
• Echoes in the Darkness — Sue Myers
• 1987Into the Homeland — Rye Swallow
• 1986Ferris Bueller's Day Off — Katie Bueller
• L.A. Law — Lois Alner
• 1986The Men's Club — Hannah
• The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Marcia Loomis
• 1984Call to Glory — Vanessa Sarnac
• Call to Glory — Vanessa Sarnac
• Murder, She Wrote — Joanna Simms
• 1983Brainwash — Lyn Nilsson
• 1983Cocaine and Blue Eyes — Catherine Anatole
• 1982Breach of Contract
• 1982Cry for the Strangers — Elaine Russell
• 1982Hysterical — Kate
• St. Elsewhere — Carol Novino
• 1981Louis L'Amour's The Cherokee Trail — Mary Breydon
• 1981Margin for Murder — Velda
• Simon & Simon
• Magnum, P.I. — Karen Teal
• 1980Night Games — Valerie St. John
• 1980The Ivory Ape — Lil Tyler
• ABC Afterschool Special — Joanne Kelly
• Pellett — Jane

Appearances as themselves (2)

• Reunited Apart — Self
• 2006Who Is Ferris Bueller? — Self