Catherine Hicks
Catherine Hicks
Catherine Mary Hicksis an American television, film and stage actress. She is known for her role as Annie Camden on the long-running television series 7th Heaven. Other notable roles have been: Dr. Faith Coleridge on the soap opera Ryan's Hope, her Emmy Award-nominated performance as Marilyn Monroe in Marilyn: The Untold Story, Dr. Gillian Taylor in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, and Karen Barclay in Child's Play...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth6 August 1951
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
As an only child, I embrace loneliness. Hollywood loneliness helped to understand Marilyn Monroe in a real way. I was able to portray her very well.
There's this great fear, and I find, lack of knowledge of Catholicism, just like I'm ignorant of other things. I think we should all visit each other's places of worship and get to know a priest, get to know a rabbi. It's not that scary. I think Scientology is scary, and I don't understand Jehovah's Witnesses, but I haven't spent time with them.
Acting is about giving yourself away, like the U2 song 'With or Without You.' You just don't stay behind a character and make people laugh or cry. At some point you have to take off that mask, and when you do, you're a human being, not just an actor. After all, I'm Catherine the person first. You share that.
Before we took down the tree each year, Dad would always say a prayer that we would be together the next Christmas. I cling to that prayer, which serves as a reminder that it's important to be grateful in the present for the people you love because, well, you never know.