A bubbly, effervescent blonde leading and featured player of films and TV, Hicks projected an earnest quality whether playing "head on her shoulders" gals you'd want to take home to mother or witches and other free-spirits. She won her first TV role, Faith Coleridge on the ABC soap opera "Ryan's Hope", two days after arriving in NYC in 1976. By 1978, she was playing opposite Jack Lemmon in Bernard Slade's Broadway play "Tribute".Hicks moved to Hollywood in 1979 and made her TV-movie debut in "Love for Rent" (ABC) and played Dr. Rappant, the principal of the elementary school in the series
