Joan Pringle

Joan Pringle is an American actress best known for her long run as Sybil Buchanan, a high school vice principal who later becomes principal, on the CBS drama The White Shadow. Born in New York City and raised in Brooklyn, she trained under Uta Hagen and made her Broadway debut in Camino Real before becoming a Universal Studios contract player. After her screen debut on Emergency!, she took recurring roles on Ironside and Rafferty and guest spots on series including Sanford and Son, Kojak and The Bionic Woman. Her performance in The White Shadow earned her an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series. She played Christella in J.D.'s Revenge (1976) and starred as Ruth Marshall on Generations from 1989 to 1991. Later work includes the films Original Sin (2001), Daddy's Little Girls (2006) and The Lost City (2022), plus recurring roles on Girlfriends and One on One.