In 1969, she was cast as “Liz McIntyre” on the popular television series Room 222, about an American history class at Walt Whitman High School in Los Angeles, California. That same year, Nicholas was cast in her first television role, as a character on the ABC-TV series It Takes a Thief, an action-adventure series that aired until 1970. The following year, she acted in a number of plays with the company, including Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Kongi’s Harvest and Daddy Goodness. She studied with dance instructor Louis Johnson and voice instructor Kristin Linklater and performed in a production of German dramatist Peter Weiss’ Song for Lusitanian Bogey. Nicholas then moved to New York City and, in 1967, was one of the first members of the famous Negro Ensemble Company.
Nicholas separated from Moses and the two were divorced in 1966. In 1965, the theater company moved its base of operations to New Orleans, Louisiana. Their production of In White America toured not only in Mississippi and Louisiana, but also in New York City. They toured Ossie Davis’ Purlie Victorious, Samuel Beckett’s, Waiting for Godot as well as an Evening of Poetry and Song. Nicholas joined Moses’ Free Southern Theater and with a small troupe of actors performed significant plays for rural African-American audiences many of whom had never seen live theater before. The two married, and in 1964, Nicholas and Moses moved to Jackson, Mississippi. In 1963, she met Gilbert Moses, then a stage actor. After she graduated from Milan High School, she attended the University of Michigan. She grew up in Milan, Michigan, just south of Ann Arbor. Actress and fiction writer Denise Nicholas was born Donna Denise Nicholas on July 12th in Detroit, Michigan to Louise and Otto Nicholas.
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