- Born
- Birth nameDonna Denise Nicholas
- Height5′ 6½″ (1.69 m)
- Denise Nicholas was born on July 12, 1944 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Let's Do It Again (1975), Capricorn One (1978) and In the Heat of the Night (1988). She was previously married to Jim Hill, Bill Withers and Gilbert Moses.
- SpousesJim Hill(February 14, 1981 - 1984) (divorced)Bill Withers(January 17, 1973 - 1974) (divorced)Gilbert Moses(1964 - 1965) (divorced)
- ChildrenNo Children
- ParentsOtto NicholasLouise Nicholas
- RelativesOtto Nicholas(Sibling)Michele Burgen(Sibling)
- Graduated from the University of Michigan.
- Graduate of Milan High School, Class of 1961, Milan, MI.
- A founding member of The Free Southern Theater.
- She wrote the song "Can We Pretend" as well as five scripts for In the Heat of the Night, and co-wrote a sixth with Carroll O'Connor; her novel "Freshwater Road" was selected as one of the best books of 2005 by several major newspapers.
- In 1964 she moved to Mississippi to perform with the Free Southern Theater, where she met and married co-founder Gil Moses; the company was a target of the Ku Klux Klan.
- [After separation from her third husband in 1984] " 'Dark Shadow' was my middle name... I was really at ground zero. The marriage was over, my career was in the toilet, and I was adrift." (People Magazine, May 7, 1990)
- "My father always told me, 'Don't have me walking into the theater with one of my buddies and seeing your naked self up on that screen.' " (People Magazine, May 7, 1990)
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