Nikki Griffin Biography
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Nicole (Nikki)
Griffin was born on April 16, 1978 in
Vicksburg, Mississippi, then later moved to
North
Carolina.
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She attended the
New Hanover High School in Wilmington, High
School. In High School, she learned about the
art of movies in film class from her teacher
Marc Matney, who has performed English
voice-overs for foreign films showing in the
U.S. and England.
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She moved out to
Los Angeles with a friend so they could both
break into show biz. After one month, her
friend backed their bags and went back home.
However, she came there for a reason, and she
was going to stick it out until she made it.
She did not make it big at first, but, since she
had that beautiful youthful look, she was able
to do some acting while breaking into the
business.
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Her first
appearance on television was as an extra on the
TV series Dawson's Creek in 2000, but her
first real role (although small), was as Liz on
the made for TV movie Darktales, also in
2000. She then had other small parts on TV and
in the movies, such as in Summer Catch in
2001.
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She continued to
have small roles up until 2005, when she began
to have a reoccurring role as Jesse on the
popular TV series, The O.C. Her character
on the show is a wild partier and drug addict -
the complete opposite of Nikki in real life.
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2005 was also a
big year for her on the big screen, she had been given the
role of Katie Johnson in the 2005 summer
blockbuster movie
Dukes of Hazzard starring
Jessica
Simpson,
Johnny Knoxville
and Seann William Scott,
where she plays the beautiful and sexy love
interest of both Bo and Luke Duke. She loved
working with the cast - and since she has a love
of cars, she enjoyed (driving and) riding around
in the General Lee.
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Nikki has been cast
in another sequel to smash action movie Fast and the Furious
- entitled Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.
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Hobbies &
Interests: Playing poker, Trivial Pursuit
and Six degrees of Kevin Bacon.
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Favorites: Food = "I
love fried chicken, green beans, mashed potatoes
and gravy, and sweet tea."
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Habits: Continuously checks to see if the doors
are locked, keeps checking to see if curling
iron is turned off, keeps clean (a germaphobe)
Biography by Ian Ripley,
PopStarsPlus.com, Sr. Staff Writer
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