Cynthia Sikes

Cynthia Sikes Yorkin works as an actress and producer, with St. Elsewhere and Blade Runner 2049 among her best-known projects. Born in Coffeyville, she won Miss Kansas in 1972 and finished in the Top 10 of the Miss America pageant, then spent part of that year touring with Bob Hope's USO Christmas show as a singer and dancer. She trained at San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater on a scholarship, performing in plays including A Winter's Tale and The Glass Menagerie, and her Broadway debut came as the Baker's Wife in Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods. On television, she played Dr. Annie Cavanero on St. Elsewhere and Judge Monica Ryan on L.A. Law, and she took the lead in the CBS film Sins of Silence and produced it. Her features include the comedies Arthur 2: On the Rocks (1988) and That's Life! (1986). She produced Blade Runner 2049, which earned five Academy Award nominations and won for Best Visual Effects.