American actress Catherine Mary Hicks has been appearing in film and on television since 1976. She is best known for her portrayal of Annie Camden, a jack-of-all-trades stay-at-home mom in the long-running family drama television series “7th Heaven.”
Hicks has also been recognized for her roles as Dr. Faith Coleridge on the soap opera “Ryan's Hope,” as Marilyn Monroe in “Marilyn: The Untold Story,” which garnered her an Emmy Award nomination, as Dr. Gillian Taylor in “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home,” and Karen Barclay in “Child's Play.” Her performance in “Child’s Play” won her a 1988 Best Actress Saturn Award.
Hicks was born in New York City and raised in Scottsdale, Arizona. After graduating high school in 1969, Hicks attended Saint Mary's College-Notre Dame University and studied English literature and theology. She then won a prestigious acting fellowship to Cornell University, where she was a member of the Ithaca Repertory Theater Company.
After graduating from Cornell with a master of fine arts, Hicks moved to New York, where she immediately began working in television commercials. Within two weeks, she had landed her role on “Ryan’s Hope.” She then won a coveted role starring alongside Jack Lemmon in the Broadway stage production of "Tribute" for eight months.
When “Tribute” wrapped, she headed to Hollywood and starred in the sitcom “Bad News Bears.” After her portrayal of Marilyn Monroe, she starred as Anne Wells, an entertainment lawyer, in the 1981 CBS remake of Jacqueline Susann's “Valley of the Dolls.” Her film debut came a year later in the thriller “Death Valley,” with “Better Late than Never” following later that year.
Hicks’ acting career remained steady, with appearances in “Tucker’s Witch,” “Garbo Talks,” “The Razor’s Edge,” “Peggy Sue Got Married,” “Like Father Like Son,” “Souvenir,” and “She’s Out of Control.”
After “7th Heaven” ended in 2007, Hicks went on to have roles in several made-for-television movies. She took a break from acting in 2016 but returned in 2020 to voice a character in the adult animated horror comedy television series “JJ Villard’s Fairy Tales.”