Celebrity Biographies
Denise Nickerson
His career ended early. But those addicted to the Seventh Art remember her as Violet, the girl protagonist of “A world of fantasy.” Denise Nickerson she died on July 10, 2019, at the age of 62, after suffering a heart attack, in a Colorado hospital, where she had been admitted, suffering from pneumonia. A year earlier she had suffered a stroke, for which she had been left under the care of her son.
Born April 1, 1957, Denise Nickerson began acting when she was eight years old, on the television drama The Doctors . She but she became popular in the fantasy soap opera Dark Shadows , which inspired Tim Burton ‘s Dark Shadows . She played Amy Jennings and Nora Collins, two recurring characters.
After appearing on stage in the musical “Lolita, My Love”, the actress was recruited at the age of 13 as Violet Beauregarde, in A Fantasy World , an adaptation of Roald Dahl ‘s surreal book “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, which Some time later Burton would also cover it. She was a member of the group of kids who die during the trip who ends up turning into a giant blueberry, after eating an experimental gum invented by Willy Wonka, played by Gene Wilder .
Later she was about to play Regan, the girl in The Exorcist , but her mother forbade her to take part in the film, much to the delight of Linda Blair , who was the replacement. After the series The Electric Company , and the comedies Smile and Zero to Sixty , she said goodbye to the cinema. She preferred to study nursing and carve out a future away from the spotlight. After the death of her first husband, Richard Keller, she joined Mark Willard, father of her only offspring, in 1995, but she had divorced her in 1998.