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Jasika Nicole

Jasika Nicole is an American actress and illustrator from Birmingham, Alabama.[citation needed] She is known for her role as Agent Astrid Farnsworth on the Fox series Fringe. She has guest-starred in Scandal as Kim Muñoz. She starred as Carly Lever, the head of pathology, in the ABC medical drama The Good Doctor.

Career

Nicole studied theatre, dance, voice and studio art at Catawba College in Salisbury, North Carolina.[1]

In 2017, she voiced a femme "brown-skinned energetic creative" named Reina, for the Amazon Video animated series Danger & Eggs, who likes to build with her hands, is empowered by the world around her, and is the best friend of one of the protagonists.[2][3][4]

She is currently the voice of Dana Cardinal on the podcast Welcome to Night Vale. She also voiced Keisha, the protagonist and narrator on Alice Isn't Dead, a podcast by Night Vale co-writer Joseph Fink.

Personal life

Nicole is biracial, and has said that while growing up, there were very few TV characters with whom she could identify.[5] Nicole is lesbian.[6] She was featured in the 2010 OUT 100 list in Out, and was photographed alongside Bruno Tonioli, Armistead Maupin, and Bill Silva for the issue.[7] She married her longtime partner, CJ Savage, on October 5, 2013.[8]

Nicole designs and makes all of her own clothes, including shoes, pants, jackets, and undergarments.[9][10]

Filmography

Film

Television

Other media

References

  1. ^ "Jasika Nicole Bio". Fox Broadcasting Company. Archived from the original on December 16, 2010. Retrieved 2011-05-15.
  2. ^ Rude, Mey (July 24, 2017). "The Cast and Crew of "Danger & Eggs" Chat About Their Super Weird, Super Queer Kids Show". Autostraddle. Retrieved February 12, 2020.
  3. ^ Guerrero, Desirée (November 21, 2017). "Wait, You Never Heard of Danger and Eggs?". The Advocate. Retrieved February 12, 2020.
  4. ^ Lodge, Daniel (July 27, 2017). "SDCC '17: Danger and Eggs represents LGBTQ community both on and off screen". comicsbeat. Retrieved February 12, 2020.
  5. ^ Ryan, Maureen (March 28, 2017), "Jasika Nicole on 'Underground,' Representation and Rewriting History", Variety, retrieved August 22, 2017
  6. ^ Navarro, Mireya (26 September 2008), "Out in Hollywood: Starring Roles Are Rare", New York Times, retrieved 20 January 2009
  7. ^ "16th Annual OUT 100", OUT Magazine, 11 November 2010
  8. ^ "Instagram". Archived from the original on 2021-12-24. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
  9. ^ "Actress Jasika Nicole Talks Being Biracial and lesbian in Hollywood". www.advocate.com. 2019-04-10. Retrieved 2020-10-04.
  10. ^ Network, Real Style. "Jasika Nicole Discusses The Good Doctor, Being An Artist, Designing Her Own Fashion And Facing Racism". Real Style Network. Retrieved 2020-10-04.
  11. ^ a b "Jasika Nicole (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved October 1, 2023. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its opening and/or closing credits and/or other reliable sources of information.

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