Denise Nickerson (1957-2019) *62

Denise Nickerson was an American child actor who played Violet Beauregarde in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Allison on The Electric Company, and AAmy Jennings and Nora Collins in the soap opera Dark Shadows. 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, Florida. Nickerson, at the age of two, worked on a television commercial for a Florida heating company. At the age of four, she was discovered by Zev Buffman of Neighborhood Playhouse, at a local fashion show. 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.. At the age of 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.

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