Catherine Hicks

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Biography

She continued her ascent with high-profile roles in projects like the campy miniseries "Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls" (CBS, 1981) and the series "Tucker's Witch" (CBS, 1982-83), as well as feature films "Peggy Sue Got Married" (1986) and, most famously, as the whale-obsessed biologist in "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" (1986). She won a Best Actress Saturn Award for her starring role as a mother who buys Chucky, a demonically …
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Job Title

Actor

Born

August 6, 1951

Career Milestones

1996

Played a minister's wife in "7th Heaven" (The WB)

1994

Was member of the ensemble cast of short-lived "Winnetka Road" (NBC)

1984

Played Ron Silver's love interest in "Garbo Talks"

Starred in TV series "Tucker's Witch"

1982

Made feature film debut in "Death Valley"

1981

Played Ann Welles in miniseries "Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls"

1980

Starred as Marilyn Monroe in the TV-movie, "Marilyn: The Untold Story"

Co-starred in TV series version of "The Bad News Bears"

1979

Made first TV-movie, "Love For Rent"

1978

Appeared with Jack Lemmon on Broadway in "Tribute"

1976

TV series debut on the ABC soap "Ryan's Hope"; landed the role two days after arriving in NYC

Raised in Phoenix, Arizona

Awards

1981

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress In a Limited Series or a Special in Marilyn: The Untold Story