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Christina Pickles (born February 17, 1935) is a British
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
-born American actress. She has appeared in such television shows as Roseanne
Roseanne (TV series)

Roseanne is an United States situation comedy broadcast on American Broadcasting Company from 1988 in television to 1997 in television starring stand-up comedian Roseanne Barr....
, Matlock
Matlock (TV series)

Matlock is a long-running United States television legal drama, starring Andy Griffith in the title role. The show ran from September 23, 1986 to May 8, 1992 on NBC, where it replaced the long-running series The A-Team to Friday nights, then on November 5, 1992 until May 7, 1995 on American Broadcasting Company....
, Diagnosis Murder and Murder, She Wrote
Murder, She Wrote

Murder, She Wrote is an award-winning television mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher....
, as well as the soap operas The Guiding Light and Another World
Another World (TV series)

Another World is a television soap opera that ran on the NBC network from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. It was created by legendary serial creator Irna Phillips along with William J....
.

However her most famous television role is that of "Nurse Helen Rosenthal" in the long-running hospital drama St. Elsewhere
St. Elsewhere

St. Elsewhere is a U.S. drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. The series is set at St. Eligius, a decaying urban teaching hospital in Boston's South End, Boston, Massachusetts....
 (for which she was nominated for four Emmys).

She played the mother of Harmon Rabb, in "JAG".

She also appeared as "Judy Geller", the mother of Ross
Ross Geller

Ross Eustace Geller, Ph.D. is a fictional character on the popular United States television sitcom Friends , played by David Schwimmer....
 and Monica Geller
Monica Geller

Monica E. Geller is a fictional character on the popular United States TV series situation comedy Friends , played by Courteney Cox. Monica is known as the "Mother Hen" of the group and her Greenwich Village apartment was one of the group's main gathering places....
, in the U.S.






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Christina Pickles (born February 17, 1935) is a British
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
-born American actress. She has appeared in such television shows as Roseanne
Roseanne (TV series)

Roseanne is an United States situation comedy broadcast on American Broadcasting Company from 1988 in television to 1997 in television starring stand-up comedian Roseanne Barr....
, Matlock
Matlock (TV series)

Matlock is a long-running United States television legal drama, starring Andy Griffith in the title role. The show ran from September 23, 1986 to May 8, 1992 on NBC, where it replaced the long-running series The A-Team to Friday nights, then on November 5, 1992 until May 7, 1995 on American Broadcasting Company....
, Diagnosis Murder and Murder, She Wrote
Murder, She Wrote

Murder, She Wrote is an award-winning television mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher....
, as well as the soap operas The Guiding Light and Another World
Another World (TV series)

Another World is a television soap opera that ran on the NBC network from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. It was created by legendary serial creator Irna Phillips along with William J....
.

However her most famous television role is that of "Nurse Helen Rosenthal" in the long-running hospital drama St. Elsewhere
St. Elsewhere

St. Elsewhere is a U.S. drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. The series is set at St. Eligius, a decaying urban teaching hospital in Boston's South End, Boston, Massachusetts....
 (for which she was nominated for four Emmys).

She played the mother of Harmon Rabb, in "JAG".

She also appeared as "Judy Geller", the mother of Ross
Ross Geller

Ross Eustace Geller, Ph.D. is a fictional character on the popular United States television sitcom Friends , played by David Schwimmer....
 and Monica Geller
Monica Geller

Monica E. Geller is a fictional character on the popular United States TV series situation comedy Friends , played by Courteney Cox. Monica is known as the "Mother Hen" of the group and her Greenwich Village apartment was one of the group's main gathering places....
, in the U.S. sitcom Friends
Friends

Friends is an American situation comedy created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994. The series revolves around a group of friends in the area of Manhattan, New York City, who occasionally live together and share living expenses....
, making appearances throughout the ten-year run of the series.

She has also appeared in many films including Masters of the Universe
Masters of the Universe (film)

Masters of the Universe is a 1987 in film science fiction/fantasy film based on the Masters of the Universe. The movie stars Dolph Lundgren as He-Man and Frank Langella as Skeletor....
, The Wedding Singer
The Wedding Singer

The Wedding Singer is a 1998 film written by Tim Herlihy and directed by Frank Coraci that stars Adam Sandler as Robbie Hart, a wedding singer, and Drew Barrymore as Julia Sullivan, the object of his affections....
 and George of the Jungle 2
George of the Jungle 2

George of the Jungle 2 is the 2003 direct-to-video sequel of the 1997 Disney film George of the Jungle . It was directed by David Grossman, written by Jordan Moffet, and stars Thomas Haden Church, Julie Benz and Christopher Showerman as "George"....
. She also appeared in 1994's Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love
Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love

Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love is a 1994 in television sequel to the 1984 in film comedy film Revenge of the Nerds and the follow up films in 1987 and 1992....
 as Tippy. However, of all her film work, she is probably best remembered for her role as Caroline Montague in Baz Luhrmann
Baz Luhrmann

Mark Anthony "Baz" Luhrmann is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe-nominated Australian film director, screenwriter, and film producer best known for The Red Curtain Trilogy....
's Romeo and Juliet. She also voiced Elsie in The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island
The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island

The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island is an animated film directed by Charles Grosvenor....
.

Pickles was born in Yorkshire
Yorkshire

Yorkshire is a Historic counties of England of northern England and the largest in Great Britain. Because of its great size, over time functions were increasingly undertaken by its subdivisions, which have been subject to History of local government in Yorkshire....
, England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
. She is a naturalized U.S. citizen.

She was romantically linked with the late actor Herb Edelman
Herb Edelman

Herbert "Herb" Edelman was an United States actor of stage, film and television. He was twice nominated for an Emmy Award for his television work....
, who also played her boyfriend in several episodes of St. Elsewhere.

She is the niece of radio presenter Wilfred Pickles
Wilfred Pickles

Wilfred Pickles Order of the British Empire was an English people actor and radio presenter.Born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, Pickles was a proud Yorkshireman, and having been selected by the BBC as an announcer for its North Region radio service, went on to be an occasional newsreader on the National service during World War II....
 and the sister of judge James Pickles
James Pickles

Judge James Pickles is a former English Circuit judge, now a tabloid columnist....
.

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