Nicole Forester (born 19 November 1972; age 52) is a Daytime Emmy Award-nominated actress who played an imaginary Dabo girl in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine third season episode "Distant Voices" (in what was her first television acting appearance) and Nora in the Star Trek: Enterprise second season episode "Horizon".
Forester was born Nicole Theresa Schmidt in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She majored in Musical Theatre at Western Michigan University and studied performance at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts campus in Pasadena, California, from which she graduated in 1993. She also studied at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and at the Goethe Institute in Schwabisch Hall, Germany, where she became fluent in the German language.
Since appearing on Deep Space Nine, Forester made guest appearances on television shows such as The Single Guy (starring Olivia d'Abo), Pensacola: Wings of Gold (starring Kristanna S. Loken), Diagnosis: Murder (with Joanna Cassidy), Whoopi Goldberg’s Strong Medicine (starring Jenifer Lewis, with Nikita Ager), and NBC's Will & Grace. Following her stint on Enterprise, she was seen on Monk (starring Ted Levine, with Stanley Kamel, Sarah Silverman and Billy Burke) and CBS' Two and a Half Men.
In addition, Forester had recurring roles on Chicago Fire, Boss, Beverly Hills, 90210 (working with Michael Durrell, Cynthia Graham, Rosie Malek-Yonan, Michelle Phillips, Paul Popowich, and director Michael Ray Rhodes), UPN's Shasta McNasty, and NBC's Mister Sterling. During her time on the latter series, she worked with fellow Star Trek alumni Jeff Allin, Vaughn Armstrong, Steven Culp, Bob Gunton, Randy Oglesby, George D. Wallace, and Harris Yulin.
Forester has also appeared in such made-for-TV movies as 1995's The Christmas Box (with Robert Curtis Brown), 1998's Perfect Prey (with Gregg Daniel and Richard Riehle), and 1999's Three Secrets (starring with Katy Boyer and again acting alongside Robert Curtis Brown). In 2005, she starred with Cristine Rose in a TV pilot for ABC called Enough About Me, but the show was not picked up. Forester's feature film credits include The Omega Code (1999, with Robert Ito and Robert O'Reilly), Simpatico (1999) and Vampires Anonymous (2003, with Brent Hinkley and Paul Popowich).
Forester starred as Cassie Layne Winslow on CBS' Guiding Light from 2005 to 2008. One of her co-stars on this series was Star Trek: The Original Series alumna Marj Dusay. For her performance on this series, Forester was nominated as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series at the 35th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards in 2008.
External links[]
- NicoleForester.com – official site
- Nicole Forester at Wikipedia
- Nicole Forester at the Internet Movie Database