All the people in Star Trek will always be known as those characters. And what characters to have attached to your name in life! The show is such a phenomenon all over the world.
Billie Holiday I never met, but I love her music.
I started my whole career in musical theatre. I was a dancer, I was a singer, I was an actress, I built sets, I directed!
I think anybody with any intelligence sits down and sees Star Trek not a kids' show.
I was 14 years old and in a big musical in my home town, Chicago. And Mr. Ellington came to see the show and asked to meet me.
I was very blessed in always knowing what I wanted to do, and by the grace of God I've been able to succeed in my chosen career.
I've agreed to do several Star Trek conventions this coming year.
It's just coincidental that the acting took off first over everything else.
Mahalia Jackson, I grew up around the corner from in Chicago.
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Her autobiography, "Beyond Uhura: Star Trek and Other Memories", was published in 1994.
She appeared in the TV commercial for Psychic Encounters in 1996.
Nichelle's great-grandfather, James Gillespie, was Welsh.
Nichelle made both her first (The Corbomite Maneuvre) and last (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country) Star Trek (1966) appearances with DeForest Kelley.
Nichelle was discovered by Duke Ellington in her mid-teens, she toured with both Ellington and Lionel Hampton as a lead singer and dancer. Decades later in 1992, she made use of her voice again starring in a dramatic one-woman musical show Reflections in which she became 12 separate song legends.
Nichelle became the first African-American to place her handprints in front of Hollywood's Chinese Theatre, along with the rest of the Star Trek (1966) crew.
From the late 1970's until sometime in the late 1980's, Nichelle was employed by NASA and was in charge of astronaut recruits and hopefuls. Most of the recruits that she launched were minority candidates of different races and/or ethnicities, as well as gender, like Guion Bluford (the first African American male astronaut), Sally Ride (the first female astronaut), Judith Resnick (one of the original female astronauts recruited by NASA, who perished during the launch of the Challenger on January 28, 1986), and Ronald McNair (another victim of the Challenger disaster). She lived in Houston, Texas during her years as a Johnson Space Center employee.
Former NASA astronaut Dr. Mae Jemison was inspired by Nichelle when she decided to become the first African American female astronaut. Jemison was a fan of the original Star Trek (1966).
Fed up with the racist harassment, culminating with her learning that the studio was withholding her fan mail, Nichelle submitted her resignation. She withdrew it when Martin Luther King personally convinced her that her role was too important as a breakthrough to leave.
Her height is 5' 5" (1.65 m).
Nichelle was the first black woman to be on Star Trek (1966).
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