Nichelle Nichols
Nichelle Nichols ( born December 28, 1932 in Robbins, Illinois, USA, as Grace Nichols ) is an American actress and singer.
Career
Nichelle Nichols has set two milestones in American TV. For one, she was the first black woman in a space series ( Nyota Uhura in Star Trek ( Star Trek ), who not only got to play the typical "black" roles that time ( maid, etc.), on the other hand she was also the first black woman that a white man kissing in the U.S. media. Captain Kirk in the episode Plato's stepchildren However, the kiss itself was not shown but only indicated by the choice of camera perspective, which only showed the head posture " Our lips have never been. touched, "said Nichols in William Shatner's " Memories. " Because of that kiss denied some television stations in the southern U.S. to broadcast this episode. as Nichols in 1966 wanted to get out of the series, she persuaded the civil rights activist Martin Luther King, continues as a model in the series to act.
She was also the first African- American actress who could immortalize their handprints in front of Grauman 's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. In 1992 she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. By 1987, she was employed by the U.S. space agency NASA, where she alongside occasional representative activities in the junior advertising for astronauts, worked. Among her recruits included, among others Guion Bluford, Sally Ride and Judith Resnik and Ronald McNair. Resnik and McNair came in 1986 with the Challenger disaster killed.
In 1999, she had - or Uhura - some " gigs " in the satirical animated series Futurama. Nichelle Nichols spoke at the U.S. version of the role itself in 2007, she played in the series Heroes ( Season 2 ) the role of Nana Dawson.
According to Nichelle Nichols who discovered Asteroid 2001 ( 68410 ) Nichols is named.
Family
Nichols is divorced and has a son. She had a younger brother, Thomas, who with Heaven's Gate in Rancho Santa Fe, California, committed suicide in March 1997.