Nicole Beharie

Nicole Beharie
Nicole Beharieis an American actress and singer. She is known for her roles in the drama film American Violet, the drama Shame, and the biographical sports drama 42. From September 2013 to April 2016, she starred in the Fox fantasy series Sleepy Hollow...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth3 January 1985
CityWest Palm Beach, FL
CountryUnited States of America
struggle character sassy
There are expectations in how you play your character as a black woman, to be sassy and the same kind of feel, as if there are no quirky black women. I struggle with those things constantly, trying to add dimension to my work, and that's the goal, too.
mom boots georgia
My mom has an English accent, so we always referred to the trunk as the 'boot.' And then, suddenly, we moved to Georgia and I would say things like 'open the boot' with a bit of an accent, and I quickly realized I had to adapt; that kind of thing will get you beat up!
laughing made
I was the jokester, the one who made the family laugh.
father littles london
When I was younger, my father was in the Foreign Service and we lived in Nigeria, Panama, and London, but for the most part I grew up in the South and D.C. I got the travel bug as a little person and I've bounced around a lot.