Actor
Barbara Whinnery
July 1, 1953 · Berkeley, California, USA
Barbara K. Whinnery (born July 1, 1953) is an American actress from Berkeley, California, best known for the role of Dr. Cathy Martin on the television drama St. Elsewhere. She has made guest appearances in several other television shows and has also appeared in movies and on stage.
She trained at the Actor’s Conservatory Theater in San Francisco (where her classmates included her future St. Elsewhere co-stars Denzel Washington and Cynthia Sikes ), and with Milton Katselas. She currently is a studio faculty member at The Acting Place in Los Angeles, California.
Notable work
Often works with
Jim Metzler
3 titles together
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, Hot to Trot, Apollo 11: First Steps on the Moon
Lewis Smith
2 titles together
Diagnosis: Murder, Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
Stephanie Niznik
2 titles together
Diagnosis: Murder, Vanishing Son
Mark Harmon
2 titles together
St. Elsewhere, Chicago Hope
Cindy Pickett
2 titles together
St. Elsewhere, Hot to Trot
Teri Polo
2 titles together
Brimstone, People Like Us
Full filmography · 21
True Blood
as Child Psychologist
20087.6
Brimstone
as Katherine
19987.5
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
as Maggie (segment "Imaginary Friend")
19977.2
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
as Mrs. Anderson
19978.1
ER
as Mrs. Draper
19947.8
Chicago Hope
as Mrs. Sylvia
19947.2
Vanishing Son
as Ella
1994
Diagnosis: Murder
as Psychic Harmony Center Representative and as Nurse and as Lorraine Bare
19937.1
Matlock
as Hairdresser and as Doreen Ferguson and as Arlene and as Anna Moore
19867.1
Murder, She Wrote
as Gretchen Pashko
19847.5
St. Elsewhere
as Cathy Martin
19825.7