Biography

Sofia Nicole Hahn was born in San Antonio, Texas, USA

This Texas native began building a solid resume almost immediately after arriving in Hollywood at age 3. Before her first television appearance, Nikki enjoyed modeling for Disney Campaigns, GAP, American Girl, Little Marc Jacobs & Jessica Simpson kids fashion line to name a few but her but her real passion began to show at an early age.

In 2009 Nikki began landing guest roles in numerous network television shows including CSI: Miami (2004), NCIS: Los Angeles (2009), The Closer (2005), Criminal Minds (2005) as well as some of her favorite Disney and Nickelodeon shows, iCarly (2007) and Jessie (2011). She also enjoyed working on commercials and eventually landed over 28 national campaigns including 2 Disneyland Commercials and a State Farm commercial with Packer's Quarterback Aaron Rodgers of The Green Bay Packers NFL.

In 2011 Nikki brought big laughs into everyone's living rooms when she starred as the daughter of Tom Hanks in a spoof skit of TLC's Toddlers & Tiaras (2009) on the Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003) post-Academy Awards special. Nikki played the role of "Sophie Hanks," a child pageant queen with an overbearing stage dad (Hanks). Immediately after the show's original airing, the segment went viral, giving the young actress a cult-like comedy following. The skit was also aired during The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986) in an interview with Hanks and Julia Roberts.

In 2012 Nikki displayed her ability in another genre when she was cast on her first villain role as sociopath child killer "Jenny Reynolds" in American Horror Story (2011) in The Origins of Monstrosity (2012). Later this same year Nikki switches to a lighter role as she gets to play Selena Gomez's little cousin Bianca in The Wizards Return: Alex vs. Alex (2013), a Disney Channel Original Movie.

2013 was year of 'Mini-me's" as Nikki gets to play young Lucy Hale when she lands the role of "Mini Aria" in Pretty Little Liars (2010) in A Is for A-l-i-v-e (2013) and "Young Callie" as young Mia Mitchell in The Fosters (2013). By 2014 Nikki had worked on 8 other comedy satires for Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003) with big names such as Katie Couric and Topher Grace.

In 2015 Nikki lands the coveted role of "Emily Cooper" in Disney's Adventures in Babysitting (2016) - 100th Disney Channel Original Movie (DCOM) with Sabrina Carpenter and Sofia Carson. The 100th DCOM was directed by John Schultz (Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer (2011)) and executive produced by Michelle Manning (Teen Beach 2 (2015), The Breakfast Club (1985), The Outsiders (1983)). Manning has become a personal friend and mentor for Nikki and friend of the family as well.

Nikki has been fortunate to work alongside, and learn from Hollywood A-listers such as Jim Belushi, Kyra Sedgwick, Elijah Wood, Elizabeth McCormick, Henry Winkler, cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, Elisabeth Röhm, Ken Leung, and Two-Time Academy Awards Winners Tom Hanks, Jessica Lange, and Geoffrey Rush.

In 2016 Nikki landed the role of Young Mileva Maric in National Geographic's 10 episode anthology series Genius (2017), season 1, "Einstein", which earned 10 Emmy Nominations in 2017. It was executive produced by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer. Einstein played by Geoffrey Rush.

2017-2019 Nikki lands recurring role as "Gina Tuscadero" in American Housewife (2016) on ABC.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: DS