Denise Nickerson

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1957-04-01 (62 years old)

Deathday

2019-07-10

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Denise Nickerson

Biography

Denise Nickerson (April 1, 1957-July 10, 2019) was an American former actress best known for her roles as the gum-chewing Violet Beauregarde in the 1971 movie Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory as well as Amy Jennings and Nora Collins in the soap opera Dark Shadows. Description above from the Wikipedia article Denise Nickerson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

1971

1975

Smile

as Shirley

2018

Howard

as Shirley (archive footage)

1971

The Neon Ceiling

as Paula Miller

1976

The Dark Side of Innocence

as Gabriela Hancock

1978

Zero to Sixty

as 'Larry' Wilde

1978

The Koozebanian

as Kana Nelson

1973

1978

Child of Glass

as Connie Sue Armsworth

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