Biography

Virginia Nicolson was born on March 1, 1916 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Too Much Johnson (1938), The Hearts of Age (1934) and With Orson Welles: Stories of A Life in Film (1990). She was married to John C. Pringle, Charles Lederer and Orson Welles. She died in September 1996 in Wiltshire, England, UK.

Mother, with Orson Welles, of daughter Christopher Welles.

Her third husband, John Pringle, was a South African and she lived with him in South Africa for many years. Her daughter Christopher Welles later wrote of how shocked she was by her mother's casual acceptance of that country's notorious apartheid regime.

She and her first husband, Orson Welles, were both teenagers when they married in 1934. Long after their divorce, Welles said that he believed that she had married him primarily to escape from her domineering and conservative parents, describing himself as "her ticket out of town".