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Denise Nickerson Biography

Denise Nickerson is one of the most popular and richest Movie Actress who was born on April 1, 1957 in New York, United States. The actress is known for her role as the relentless gum chewer Violet Beauregarde in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. Her TV credits include The Electric Company, which ran from 1971 to.

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Denise Nickerson (April 1, 1957 – July 10, 2019) was an American actress. She started her career as a child actress playing bratty bubblegum-chewing Violet Beauregarde in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory; Allison on The Electric Company; and Amy Jennings, Nora Collins, and Amy Collins in the soap opera Dark Shadows.

During the 1960s and 1970s, Nickerson was in television commercials for Doublemint gum, IBM typewriters, and Pampers (diapers). She said, of the IBM commercial, that she knew nothing about typewriters. Nickerson said, of the Pampers commercial, she was posing as a babysitter, but never had used a diaper. Nickerson created the role of Liza Walton on the CBS Daytime soap opera, Search for Tomorrow. She remained with the series until they decided to age the character and make her one of the show’s romantic heroines.

She was re-married her husband Mark Willard in 1995 after the death of her previous spouse Rick Keller in 1983. They had a son called Josh.

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In 1971, Nickerson, aged 13, was cast as the nymphet Lolita in the ill-fated musical, Lolita, My Love during its run in Boston, which closed on the road. That year, she debuted in her signature role as gum-chewing Violet Beauregarde in the film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, based on Roald Dahl’s novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Denise Nickerson Net Worth

Denise Nickerson is one of the richest Movie Actress from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Denise Nickerson's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Her big break came when she was given the role of Amy Jennings on the soap show Dark Shadows.

One year after Willy Wonka’s debut, she joined the cast of the television children’s program The Electric Company.

Nickerson was born on April 1, 1957, in New York City, to Flo, a clerical worker, and Fred Nickerson, a mail carrier. The family, along with older sister Carol and her son, moved to Miami. Nickerson, at the age of two, worked on a television commercial for a Florida heating company. At the age of four, she was discovered at a fashion show by Broadway Theatre producer Zev Buffman of drama school the Neighborhood Playhouse A few years later, she was in the play Peter Pan as Wendy’s daughter starring Betsy Palmer at Miami’s Coconut Grove Playhouse. Buffman selected Nickerson to go on the road with the play, first to Washington, D. C.. When Denise was nine, the play ended. Her parents moved Carol and Nickerson back to New York City at 56th and Lexington in a studio apartment while they (and Shane, Carol’s son), stayed with her grandmother in Massachusetts.

From 1972–73, Nickerson joined the cast of The Electric Company as “Allison”, a member of the Short Circus music group. Producers saw the potential in her fresh face and had her sing lead on several songs, including “The Sweet Sweet Sway.” She guest starred as Pamela (one of two dates Peter Brady had on one night) in a final-season episode of The Brady Bunch, “Two Petes in a Pod”, and auditioned for the role of Regan MacNeil in The Exorcist, losing to Linda Blair. Also in 1974, Nickerson was in the unsold television pilot If I Love You, Am I Trapped Forever? as Sophie Pennington based on M. E. Kerr’s novel of the same name with Teddy Eccles.

In 1973, Nickerson starred in the TV movie The Man Who Could Talk to Kids, opposite Peter Boyle and Scott Jacoby. In 1975 she appeared in the satiric, beauty-pageant inspired motion picture Smile, as Miss San Diego’s Shirley Tolstoy also starring a young Melanie Griffith and Annette O’Toole.

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Nickerson made appearances in the 1960s on such shows as The Doctors as Kate Harris, and opposite Bill Bixby in an unsold television pilot called Rome Sweet Rome on The New Phil Silvers Show. Nickerson’s big break came in 1968 when she joined the cast of ABC Daytime’s Dark Shadows, appearing as recurring characters Amy Jennings, Nora Collins, and Amy Collins from 1968–1970. Upon leaving Dark Shadows, she appeared in the 1971 television movie The Neon Ceiling.

Nickerson appeared in the 1978 film Zero to Sixty opposite Darren McGavin and Sylvia Miles, and TV film Child of Glass. She turned 21 in 1978, and quit acting. Nickerson found her parents had squandered her prior savings, so began a nursing career. Instead of a nurse, she became a doctor’s office receptionist. Nickerson was a longtime attendee at fan conventions for both Willy Wonka and Dark Shadows. In 2001, Nickerson was herself in the documentary Pure Imagination: The Story of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory directed by J.M. Kenny. In the documentary, producer David L. Wolper convinced Breaker Confections (a subsidiary of the Quaker Oats Company at the time; then changed to The Willy Wonka Candy Company and bought by Nestlé, now known as Nestlé Candy Shop) to make a new candy bar, buy the rights to the book and finance the picture to promote the new candy bar.

Who is Denise Nickerson Dating?

According to our records, Denise Nickerson married to Mark Willard , Rich Keller . As of December 1, 2023, Denise Nickerson’s is not dating anyone.

Nickerson was hit by a car in 1976 while crossing the street and left in a full leg cast for eight months. She was married twice. Her first marriage was to Rick Keller in 1981; he died two years later of a brain aneurysm. Her second marriage was to Mark Willard in 1995; they had one son, Josh, before divorcing in 1998.

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Nickerson finished appearing on television sporadically, including an episode of the 2000–2002 version of To Tell the Truth, as contestant number two. In 2011, some of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory’s key cast members reunited for an episode of Top Chef: Just Desserts, which challenged the contestants to create an edible world of wonder. They reunited again in 2015 on the Today show.

What happened Denise Nickerson?

While in intensive care, she developed pneumonia. She suffered a massive seizure the following day and slipped into a coma. She had a do not resuscitate order in place, and on July 10, her family removed her from life support. She died later that day from pneumonia.

Why did Denise Nickerson leave dark shadows?

On July 9, Nickerson suffered a massive seizure while in the hospital. This, combined with the effects of the pneumonia, caused her to go into a coma-like state. On July 10, 2019 Nickerson’s family made the decision to remove her from life support.

Who died from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?

Jack Albertson died tragically Jack Albertson, who played Grandpa Joe in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, appeared in nearly 200 TV and film roles. He remains one of the most recognizable actors in history, and his performance in Wonka remains one of his most famous roles.

How old was Violet Beauregarde when she died?

Denise Nickerson: Violet Beauregarde actress dies aged 62 – BBC News.

Where is Julia winter now?

Julia had since given up acting, now residing in her homeland of Sweden and is studying to become a nurse. Although Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was her one and only film, she had also appeared on Dick and Dom in da Bungalow,” on January of 2006.

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