- Born
- Height5′ 2″ (1.57 m)
- Marisol Nichols currently (2023) stars opposite Jenna Ortega in Paramounts Winter Spring Summer Fall. She recently starred opposite Chris Rock and Sam Jackson as Capt. Angie Garza in the Lions Gate film Spiral, and opposite Eugenio Derbez in the Lions Gate comedy The Valet. On the small screen Nichols' currently stars as Hermione Lodge on The CW's highly rated, Riverdale which has won a collective 19 Teen Choice Awards.
Nichols' first appeared in shows including Beverly Hills 90210, Friends, and ER. She made her movie debut in the film Vegas Vacation playing Audrey Griswald opposite Chevy Chase. She's appeared in films Scream 2, Can't Hardly Wait, Bowfinger, Jane Austen's Mafia & Felon opposite Val Kilmer. Marisol also commanded the Counter Terrorist unit in 24 opposite Kiefer Sutherland, appeared as the mysterious and elusive Desert Wolf on Teen Wolf, was Special Agent Zoe Keates in NCIS and starred in Stephen Bochco's Blind justice as well as numerous other roles.
Balancing her work on screen with her humanitarian efforts fighting for the rights of young girls and women, Marisol created her non-profit, Foundation for a Slavery Free World, embracing the global eradication of the most heinous human rights violations-human trafficking. She is a deputized legal informant and has been dubbed, the "Hollywood Vigilantly" as she's taken part in numerous undercover operations leading to the successful arrest of dozens of traffickers and child predators. Sony Pictures recently bought the rights to her life story and is adapting it for a Television Series that Nichols is Executive Producing.
In 2017, Marisol was recognized by President Barack Obama with the President's Distinguished Volunteer Service Award for her work in human rights and for her service to our community.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Diverse Media Group
- SpousesTaron Lexton(April 13, 2008 - 2020) (divorced, 1 child)Andrea Sorrentino(1995 - 1998) (divorced)
- ChildrenRain India Lexton
- ParentsMaria PachnikRobert Falkenhof
- Race / EthnicityHispanic / Latino / Latina / Latine
- Her mother is of Mexican descent and her father is of Hungarian Jewish/Romanian Jewish heritage.
- She revealed on a Mexican TV interview that she spoke very little Spanish, since her mother wanted her children to speak English and never spoke Spanish to them.
- Started my own non-profit organization in 2015 to combat human trafficking. My 501c3 is called Foundation for a Slavery Free World.
Produced and directed 2 Human Rights Hero Awards at Beso restaurant in Hollywood, CA. The Human Rights Hero Awards are a Human Trafficking event series which awards those individuals doing heroic work in the field of Human Trafficking. - Won the prestigious National Speech and Theater Championship Award for two years while at College of DuPage.
- Has a daughter, Rain India Lexton (b. September 30, 2008).
- I can't wait to use a BabyBjoern. I'm in love with the Orbit Baby stroller, and I also really like the Bugaboo.
- I can bring Rain with me everywhere I go, but when she's in school, I don't know what I'll do. The longest I've been away from her is three days, and I cried my eyes out. The first day of school will be so hard.
- Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn't value or understand the beauty in being different at the time in my life.
- If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!
- Every year, my family and I would go visit my mom's family in Texas. We would drive from Chicago to Texas, and once we started to get towards San Antonio, everyone looked like me! It was such a great feeling. Everyone had the same brown skin that I did.
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