Before starring in "Child's Play," Catherine Hicks had a number of roles on TV before landing her role in the space movie sequel "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" as Dr. Gillian Taylor opposite William Shatner's Captain Kirk.
In "Child's Play," Hicks played Andy Barclay's mother, Karen, who buys the Chucky doll unaware it is possessed by the spirit of the serial killer Charles Lee Ray. "Child's Play" was not Hicks' first role in horror, having already had a starring role in "Death Valley."
Although her character survives the original movie, she did not return in the sequels and her character was mentioned in "Child's Play 2" to have been put in a mental institution for trying to say that the Chucky doll was alive.
On the set of the first movie, Hicks met Kevin Yagher, who designed the original Chucky doll. The pair dated and got married two years later before having a daughter in 1992. Although she continued to act in a number of movies and series, Hicks' next big project was in 1996 with "7th Heaven." She played the lead Annie Jackson-Camden for 11 years on the show until it was canceled.