Christina Pickles

Christina Pickles Biography

Christina Pickles (born 17 February 1935) is an English actress, best known for her long-running role of Nurse Helen Rosenthal in the hospital drama St. Elsewhere, for which she was nominated for four Emmys.

Life and career

Christina Pickles was born in Yorkshire, England. She is the niece of radio presenter Wilfred Pickles and the sister of judge James Pickles. Her niece Carolyn Pickles is also an actress.

She has appeared in such television shows as Roseanne, Matlock, Diagnosis: Murder and Murder, She Wrote, as well as the soap operas The Guiding Light and Another World, though it was her role in the NBC medical drama St. Elsewhere (1982"1988) with which she is most identified. She remained on St. Elsewhere for its entire six-year run, and was nominated for four Emmy awards for her work on the series.

Pickles played the mother of Harmon Rabb in the television series JAG. She also appeared as "Judy Geller", the mother of Ross and Monica Geller (David Schwimmer and Courteney Cox), in the U.S. sitcom Friends, making appearances throughout the ten-year run of the series, and receiving an Emmy nomination for her role in 1995. She appeared opposite Elliott Gould who played her on-screen husband.

Pickles has appeared in many films including Masters of the Universe, Rush It, The Wedding Singer, Sol Goode and George of the Jungle 2. She also appeared in 1994's Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love as Tippy. She memorably played Caroline Montague in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet. She also voiced Elsie the Elasmosaurus in The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island. She also appeared on the show How I Met Your Mother as Lily Aldrin's grandmother in 2009 and 2011. On radio Pickles is a frequent guest on the public radio programme Selected Shorts.

She was romantically linked with actor Herb Edelman (who played her onscreen significant other on St. Elsewhere), from the mid-1980s until his death in 1996. Prior to this, she was married to producer/director Victor Lobl for 23 years, divorcing in 1985.

Filmography

The Guiding Light as Linell Conway (unknown episodes, 1970-1972)
Seizure (1974) as Nicole Blackstone
Another World as Countess Elena DePoulignac (unknown episodes, 1977-1979)
Rush It (1978) as Eve
The White Shadow as Christine (1 episode, 1981)
Lou Grant as Elsa (1 episode, 1982)
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (1984) as Chris
Masters of the Universe (1987) as Sorceress of Castle Grayskull
Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Golden Land (1988) as Irene
St. Elsewhere as Nurse Helen Rosenthal (137 episodes, 1982-1988)
Family Ties as Ruth Hobart (2 episodes, 1988)
Who's the Boss? as Laura (1 episode, 1988)
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro (1989) as Charlotte
The People Next Door as Cissy MacIntyre (10 episodes, 1989)
In the Heat of the Night as Dr. Lureen Allcott (1 episode, 1991)
Matlock as Diana Huntington (2 episodes, 1992)
Laurie Hill as Mary (2 episodes, 1992)
Nightmare in the Daylight (1992) as Sarah Jenner
A Twist of the Knife (1993) as Marilyn Cabot
Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love (1994) as Tippy
Legends of the Fall (1994) as Isabel Ludlow
Sisters as Didi Poncell (1 episode, 1994)
Cybill as Betty (1 episode, 1995)
Murder, She Wrote as Susan McGregor (1 episode, 1995)
Diagnosis Murder as Bea Michaels (1 episode, 1996)
No Easy Way (1996) as Mrs. Livingston
Grace of My Heart (1996) as Mrs. Buxton
[[Romeo + Juliet]] (1996) as Caroline Montague
Weapons of Mass Distraction (1997) as Mrs. Frieda Messinger
The Wedding Singer (1998) as Angie Sullivan
Monday After the Miracle (1998) as Kate Keller
Murder She Purred: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery (1998) as Mim Sanburne
Valerie Flake (1999) as Meg Darnell
JAG as Trish Burnett (3 episodes, 1998-2000)
Get Real as Elizabeth Parker (22 episodes, 1999-2002)
Angels Don't Sleep Here (2002) as Angela Porter
Sol Goode (2003) .... Sol's Mom
Friends as Judy Geller (19 episodes, 1994-2003)
Kat Plus One (2004) as Gloria
The Division as Florence Hayes (1 episode, 2004)
Medium as Mrs. Walker (1 episode, 2006)
Flower Girl (2009) as Evangeline Walker
How I Met Your Mother as Rita (2 episodes, 2009-2011)
Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011) as Mother Rearden
Live at the Foxes Den (2012) as Mrs. Ducksworth

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