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Cindy Pickett
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She is known for her 1970s role as Jackie Marler-Spaulding on the Columbia Broadcasting System soap Guiding Light. Her role as Doctor Carol Novino on the television drama Saint Elsewhere in the 1980s. Foreign her critically acclaimed performance as the real-life Kay Stayner, the mother of a boy who was kidnapped for several years, in the dramatic television movie I Know My First Name Is Steven.
And for her cinematic roles and performances as Valerie Saint John in Roger Vadim"s little-known 1980 erotic cult film, Jeux de Nuit / Night Games, for which she would have the leading role, and as the tough-as-nails and heroic Doctor Jane Norris in the 1989 sci-fi-horror film DeepStar Six.
Pickett made a major departure from her soap opera image when she played the central role in the 1980 erotic film Jeux de Nuit / Night Games, directed by Roger Vadim. lieutenant was a sexually charged role involving numerous nude scenes, however the film went unnoticed and did not boost Pickett"s career.
In the 1981 mystery/crime drama Margin for Murder, Pickett played the role of Velda, Mike Hammer"s (Kevin Dobson) loyal and devoted secretary. She played "Jackie Marler" on the soap opera The Guiding Light from 1976 to 1980, "Vanessa Sarnac" on the American Broadcasting Company weekly television series Call to Glory from 1984 to 1985, and she appeared on the hospital drama television series Saint Elsewhere from 1986 to 1988.
In 1991 she played the part of Addy Mathewson in the television movie/pilot Plymouth, which at the time was considered to be one of the most expensive such movies ever made.
television series she has guest-starred on include Riptide, Simon & Simon, Magnum, Philippine Islands, Los Angeles Law, Murder, She Wrote, The Pretender, New York City Police Department Blue, Computer Society of India: Miami, Without a Trace, Crossing Jordan and Burn Notice. Personal life 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.
In 1992, they filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences.
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