Catherine Hicks

At 73 years old, Catherine Hicks has this physical status:

Catherine Mary Hicks (born August 6, 1951) is an American actress.

She is best known for her role as Annie Camden on the long-running television series 7th Heaven.

Other notable roles include Dr.

Faith Coleridge on the soap opera Ryan's Hope (1976–1978), her Emmy Award-nominated performance as Marilyn Monroe in Marilyn: The Untold Story (1980), Dr.

Gillian Taylor in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), and Karen Barclay in Child's Play (1988).

Early life

Hicks was born in New York City, the daughter of Jackie, a homemaker, and Walter Hicks, an electronics salesman. She is of Irish and English ancestry. Her family moved to Scottsdale, Arizona, during her childhood. After attending Saint Mary's College (Indiana), where she studied English literature and theology, Hicks won a prestigious acting fellowship to Cornell University. While at Cornell, she was a member of the Ithaca Repertory Theater Company.

Personal life

Hicks was engaged to journalist Jeff Silverman in the mid-1980s, but the engagement ended.

She met her future husband, special effects make-up artist Kevin Yagher, on the set of the film Child's Play. Hicks and Yagher were married on May 19, 1990. The two have a daughter, Caitlin, who was born in 1992.

Hicks is a practicing Roman Catholic.

Since the 1987–88 academic school year, the University of Notre Dame has given the "Catherine Hicks Award" to a graduating senior for outstanding work in theatre arts.

Hicks is an alumna of the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and a trustee on the Hollywood Arts Council.

In 2005, Hicks appeared in a national public service announcement for Catholic Relief Services. She received the 2006 Padre Pio Award from the Capuchin Franciscan Friars for her efforts as Catholic Relief Services spokesperson and Darfur relief.

In 2010, she made appearances in several public service announcements for the Children's Advertising Review Unit (CARU).

She continued her commitment as a parent advocate by teaming with the National Community Pharmacists Association and Purdue Pharma for the 2010 Safeguard My Meds campaign to help prevent the abuse and misuse of prescription medication. Hicks appeared in a public service announcement for Catholic Relief Services in 2015.

In 2017, Hicks began working as a volunteer in California Congressman Adam Schiff's campaign office and for The League of Women Voters. She is also a member of the Los Angeles Homeless Action Committee.

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Career

After graduating from Cornell with a master of fine arts degree, Hicks moved to New York in August 1976, where she began working in television commercials. She landed her first major television role as the newly recovered pediatrician Dr., just two weeks after arriving in New York. Faith Coleridge of ABC soap opera Ryan's Hope is a narrator of Ryan's Hope. She departed Hope on Ryan's Hope a year and half later when she was cast to star alongside Jack Lemmon (as Scott) in Bernard Slade's 1978 Broadway play Tribute, in which she played Sally Haines, the young model in whom Scottie meets up with his estranged son (Robert Picardo). Sparrow, a CBS TV movie/series pilot, starred Valerie in the same year.

After Tribute's appearances, she migrated to California and co-starred on The Bad News Bears, a CBS sitcom starring junior high school principal and psychologist Dr. Emily Rappant. She appeared in a few TV films, including Annie, a child, in ABC's Love For Rent (1979), and Beth, a camp counselor in CBS' 1980 film To Race the Wind, based on Harold Krents' autobiography.

In 1980, Hicks outlasted hundreds of actors for the lead role in ABC's $3.5 million production, Marilyn Monroe, based on the Norman Mailer best seller. For her portrayal of the legendary actress, she received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie.

As Anne Wells, an entertainment lawyer and James Coburn's protege, he appeared in CBS's reimagining of Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls in 1981. She turned down a co-starring role in Body Heat due to the film's overtly sexual content. Sally Billingsley's mother appeared in the film Death Valley (1982) as Peter Billingsley's daughter. She appeared in Better Late Than Never, a year ago.

Amanda Tucker appeared in the 12-episode detective series Tucker's Witch, opposite Tim Matheson as Rick Tucker. The show aired on CBS from October 6, 1982, sporadically into August, 1983. In 1983, Lisa Sage appeared in CBS's romantic comedy film Happiness with John Schneider.

In Sidney Lumet's film Garbo Talks (1984), Hicks appeared with Anne Bancroft and Ron Silver. In the remake The Razor's Edge (1984), Bill Murray played Isabel, Bill Murray's socialite fiancée. Hicks received a Saturn Award nomination for her role in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986). She appeared in Peggy Sue Got Married, a film by Francis Ford Coppola.

Dr. Amy Larkin played Like Father Like Son (1987). The 59th Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Scientific and Technical Awards ceremony was hosted in March 1987.

Ella Frazier, a businesswoman from the Yugoslavian comedy Tajna manastirske rakije, was released under the titles Cognac and Secret Ingredient in 1988 (also known as Cognac and Secret Ingredient). In Showtime's Souvenir (1989), she co-starred Christopher Plummer as his estranged daughter, Tina Boyer. In the horror film Child's Play (1988), Karen Barclay appeared. Her appearance was nominated for the 1988 Best Actress Saturn Award.

Janet Pearson, her girlfriend, starred in She's Out of Control as her boyfriend in 1989. Carol Stadler co-starred in the Fox TV comedy-fantasy film Hi Honey - I'm Dead in 1991. Allison Ploutzer appeared in the Jeff Franklin ABC comedy pilot Up to No Good (1992). Nancy, a mother and schoolteacher, appeared in ABC's The Circle Game (1993) as the mother and schoolteacher. She appeared Jeannie Barker in the Aaron Spelling primetime soap opera Winnetka Road, which had a six-episode tryout on NBC in 1994. She appeared in the pilot for The Martin Short Show in the same year. She was introduced by Jan Hooks as the character was reimagined before going into production. Julia Riordan was portrayed by Julia Riordan in the ABC Hall of Fame film Redwood Curtain (1995). Annie Camden, a child of the WB, appeared on The WB's Family Dreams 7th Heaven in 1996, and she played the role until the show ended, after 11 seasons in 2007. Maggie Hicks, a flight attendant, appeared in Turbulence in 1997. In Michael Davis' coming-of-age film Eight Days a Week, Hicks played Ms. Lewis, the next door neighbor.

She appeared in Nancy Ellison's book, Starlet: First Stage at the Hollywood Dream Factory, in 2001. Ellison's book was a collection of archival photographs of shooting starlets as well as photographs of Hicks taken in the 1980s.

Dean Elisabeth Graves appeared in Lifetime Movie Network's Poison Ivy: The Secret Society in 2008. Shelley Stratton, the widowed mother, appeared in another Lifetime film Stranger with My Face (2009). She appeared in the independent short film You're a Wolf (2009), co-starring Michael Gross and Jesse Bradford. In 2009, she appeared as Dr. Rosen, a therapist in the WB's online series Pushed.

In My Name Is Jerry, an independent film shot mainly in Muncie, Indiana, Hicks appeared. Hicks received the award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role from the 2009 International Filmmakers Festival for her role as Dana.

In 2010, Hicks received raves for her role as Hildegarde in Christopher Durang's book Why Torture Is Wrong and the People Who Love Them at the Stella Adler Theater in Hollywood. Judge Harriet Krammer of Texas appeared in the Hallmark Channel film A Valentine's Date (2011) (which was also available under the title Your Love Never Fails). Jean appeared in the Lifetime film Borderline Murder (2011). In the film Dorfman in Love (2011), Hicks played bartender Rose, who attracted Elliott Gould's interest. Anna Walker appeared in the 2011 Walmart and Procter & Gamble Family Movie Night drama on NBC called Game Time: Tackling the Past. In a September 2011 reading of Windows on the World by Colette Keen, she joined actors Noah Wyle, Virginia Madsen, Mike Farrell, and others, as she paid tribute to the 9/11 victims.

In November 2011, she appeared as Irene Livingston in Nevada's Jewish Repertory Theatre's Light Up the Sky's Las Vegas production. In the 2011 Hallmark Channel film A Christmas Wedding Tail, Ellen Hicks appeared Ellen.

In the Lifetime Network film Shadow of Fear, Annette Bramble appeared as Annette Bramble in May 2012. In the Blank Theatre Company's 20th Annual Young Playwrights Festival, she appeared in May 2012 and into June.

In the Ion Television original film, A Christmas Wedding Date, she portrayed Marla Sokoloff's mother. In the 2013 film Reach, Linda played Linda, a mother whose young adult son has terminal cancer. In That Gal... Who Was in That Thing (2016), Hicks was one of the eight actresses in the Showtime documentary That Gal... Who Was in That Thing (2015) as she opened her eyes and struggles of being a female actor.

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