Catherine Hicks
Catherine Hicks
Catherine Mary Hicks (born August 6, 1951) is an American retired actress. She played the character Annie Camden on the long-running television series 7th Heaven). Other roles included 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), Carol Heath in Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), and Karen Barclay in Child's Play) (1988).
Early life
Hicks was born in New York City to homemaker Jackie and electronics salesman Walter Hicks. She is of Irish and English ancestry. Her family moved to Scottsdale, Arizona, during her childhood. Hicks attended Saint Mary's College) in Notre Dame, Indiana where she studied English literature, graduating in 1973. She then won a prestigious acting fellowship sponsored by the University Resident Theatre Association to Cornell University. While at Cornell, she was a member of the Ithaca Repertory Theater Company.
Career
After graduating from Cornell with a Master of Fine Arts degree, Hicks headed to New York in August 1976, and two weeks later she landed her first major TV role as newly-recovered pediatrician Dr. Faith Coleridge on the ABC soap opera Ryan's Hope. A year and half later she left her role on Ryan's Hope when she was cast to star alongside Jack Lemmon (as Scottie) in Bernard Slade's 1978 Broadway play Tribute), in which she played the young model Sally Haines, whom Scottie sets up with his estranged son (Robert Picardo). That same year, she starred as Valerie in a CBS TV movie/series pilot, Sparrow.
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