Nicki Micheaux is one of the most versatile actresses on TV today. She has been in several TV shows, including Animal Kingdom, The Colony and Lincoln Heights. She wowed us with each performance with her talent, emotion and the way she literally became each person she played.
Now Nicki is starring in Good Trouble and shows no signs of slowing down. She recently took a break from her busy schedule to talk to TVGrapevine. Below are some of the highlights from our chat.
1. In Good Trouble, Nicki plays Sandra Thompson, a woman whose son has been brutally murdered. Her case is taken on by a Los Angeles law firm. She ends up bonding with Callie (played by Maia Mitchell, who reprises the role from The Fosters), a law clerk who recently relocated to the city. The two realize they need each other in more ways than one.
2. Nicki says that the biggest challenge in filming the role was letting go of everything once shooting wrapped. A lot of the stuff that happened in the show has also been going on in real life, so it was difficult not to think about it once she was done filming. She had to train herself to leave everything at work instead of internalizing it and bringing it home.
3. In addition to appearing on Good Trouble. Nicki is also hard at work filming her new series In The Dark. In this show, she plays a drug lord with a very interesting storyline. The show is set to air on CW in the coming months, is darker than most of what is on the network, but Nicki is excited to see how people respond to it. She is a huge fan of the shows that are already on and honored to join them.
4. People would be surprised to know that Nicki loves singing and cooking. Her biggest dream is to do a musical, even if it is just an episode of a TV show. She even joked that she would love to do a musical cooking show where she would sing each step as she put together a meal.
5. Nicki has had the opportunity to play many strong, independent women that can be considered role models. She is not only not only one on TV, but also one in real life. She is ambitious, hardworking and kind, something our youth needs to see today. Her special talents and personality make her shine, and I look forward to seeing what she does next.
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Starring in a number of prominent roles in her versatile career, actress Nicki Micheaux (“Animal Kingdom, “The Colony”) is captivating audiences and sparking up conversations in the new “The Fosters” spinoff drama series “Good Trouble,” season one now airing on Freeform Tuesday nights at 8/7c. At 100% certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, and keeping the momentum of its predecessor, the eagerly anticipated show has lived up to expectations.
Set five years after the final of “The Fosters,” “Good Trouble” follows Callie (Maia Mitchell) and Mariana (Cierra Ramirez) Adams Foster as they begin their lives in Los Angeles, Callie as a law clerk and Mariana as a software engineer. Micheaux enters as “Sandra Thompson,” the mother in a legal case about the shooting of an unarmed black man, that Callie’s firm is handling. Considered as doing for “The Fosters” as what “grown-ish” is doing for “black-ish,” “Good Trouble” is offering a real glimpse into what it is like being in your 20s and figuring out adulthood in 2019.
Fresh off of her film festival run with her genre-
defying, horror crime caper film LOWLIFE, also 100% certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and currently streaming on Hulu, Micheaux is showing no signs of slowing down. With a recurring guest role on CBS’s “S.W.A.T.” and more projects in the works, 2019 is bound to be her year.
Micheaux spent four seasons as Jen Sutton, a strong independent and supportive wife and mother on the ABC Family series, “Lincoln Heights,” which garnered her two NAACP Image Award Nominations for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series and she recently appeared in a high profile recurring role as a sharp, focused detective Sandra Yates on the TNT hit series “Animal Kingdom.” Micheaux also had prominent recurring roles on the FX series “The Shield” and HBO’s “Six Feet Under.” On the silver screen, she also recently appeared opposite Kate Beckinsale in THE TRIALS OF CATE McCALL.
When she’s not working, Micheaux gives her time and energy to raising her children, the fight against poverty worldwide as an ambassador for Oxfam, and to preaching selfcare and acceptance.
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