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Where Are They Now - June 20, 2014
Hello fans,In this week's edition of Where Are They Now, we are catching up with actress Dana Wheeler-Nicholson. You might known her from her roles in the films Fletch (1985) and Tombstone (1993). What is she up to now? Find out here!
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Email Melissa *View Past Issues: Where Are They Now Archives*--DEAD OR ALIVE?--See if you know if the following celebrities have had a visit from the "Grim Reaper":
Bob Denver: He played Gilligan on the TV series "Gilligan's Island" and Maynard G. Krebs in the series "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis"
Ursula Andress: She was the orginal "Bond girl" in the James Bond movie "Dr. No"
Hope Lange: She starred in the TV series "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" and appeared in many movies, including "Peyton Place", "Death Wish", and "Blue Velvet"
(Answer at the bottom)*Dana Wheeler-NicholsonLearn More About Dana Wheeler-Nicholson on Celebrity Nooz BIRTH DATE: October 9, 1960, New York City, NY
CLAIM TO FAME: She is best known for her roles in films Fletch (1985) and Tombstone (1993).
INFO: Wheeler-Nicholson has appeared in several movies, most notably in Fletch as Gail Stanwyk, and in Tombstone as Mattie Blaylock, Wyatt Earp's common law wife. Her other film credits include Bye Bye Love (1995), Denise Calls Up (1995), Fast Food Nation (2006), and Parkland (2013).
She has appeared on the television shows Seinfeld, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Sex and the City, Boston Public, and Boston Legal. She was cast on the ABC daytime soap opera All My Children in 2001.
TRIVIA: Graduated Friends Seminary High School, New York City in 1978.
Is the granddaughter of Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, who started DC Comics.
WHERE IS SHE NOW: From 2007 to 2011 Wheeler-Nicholson had a recurring role in the NBC drama Friday Night Lights as Angela Collette. In 2014, she played the role of Scarlett O'Connor's evil mother Beverly on ABC series Nashville.
She also appeared in the 2013 film Parkland about the events that occurred at Dallas' Parkland Hospital on the day U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. She currently lives in Austin, Texas.
* CREDITS:2014 Nashville (TV Series)...Beverly O'Connor
Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad (2014)
Crazy (2014)
2013 Parkland...Lillian Zapruder
2013 Winter in the Blood...Malvina
2013 Angels Sing...Maggie
2012 A Gifted Man (TV Series)...Jayne Reinhart
In Case of (Re)Birth (2012)
2011 Dadgum, Texas...Bettie Crawley Magee
2011 Blacktino...Moon
2007-2011 Friday Night Lights (TV Series)...Angela Collette
2011 5 Time Champion...Danielle
2010 The Good Guys (TV Series)...Meredith
Old Dogs (2010)
2010 Dance with the One...Mary
2010 The Deep End (TV Series)...Judge Reyes
White Lies, Black Ties (2010)
2006-2008 Law & Order: Criminal Intent (TV Series)...Tara Black / Hilary Marsden
Reunion (2008)
Slither (2006)
2006 Fast Food Nation...Debi Anderson
2005 McBride: Anybody Here Murder Marty? (TV Movie)...Victoria Caine
2005 Boston Legal (TV Series)...Stephanie Rogers
It Girls and Beyond (2005)
2005 Grounded for Life (TV Series)...Arianna
Tom Sawyer (2005)
2003 Boston Public (TV Series)...FBI Agent Monica Price
Chapter Seventy-Four (2003)
2003 The Battle of Shaker Heights...Mathilda (as Dana Wheeler Nicholson)
2002 Without a Trace (TV Series)...Sarah Pritchard
Midnight Sun (2002)
2002 In My Life (TV Movie)
2001 All My Children (TV Series)...Ilene Pringle
2001 What's the Worst That Could Happen?...Gallery Hostess (uncredited)
2001 Big Apple (TV Series)...Joan Kellogg
2001 Sam the Man...Woman #2 in Restaurant (as Dana Wheeler Nicholson)
2000 Law & Order (TV Series)...Maggie Callister
Mega (2000)
2000 NYPD Blue (TV Series)...Jenny Peters
The Man with Two Right Shoes (2000)
1998 Sex and the City (TV Series)...Laney Berlin
The Baby Shower (1998)
1997 Jamaica Beat...Lori Peterson
1997 Living in Peril...Linda Woods
1997 Orleans (TV Series)
Luther's Temptation (1997)
1997 Nick and Jane...Jane
1996 The X-Files (TV Series)...Det. Angela White
Syzygy (1996)
1995 The Pompatus of Love...Kathryn
1995 Denise Calls Up...Gail Donelly
1995 Frank & Jesse...Annie
1995 Seinfeld (TV Series)...Shelly
The Doodle (1995)
1995 Bye Bye Love...Heidi Schmidt
1994 Fortune Hunter (TV Series)...Cristina
The Frostfire Intercept (1994)
1993 Tombstone...Mattie Earp
1993 The Night We Never Met...Inga
1993 My Life's in Turnaround...Rachel
1991 Palace Guard (TV Series)...Apache
Pilot (1991)
1991 N.Y.P.D. Mounted (TV Movie)...Donna Lee Wellington
1991 Murder in High Places (TV Movie)
1990 Circuitry Man...Lori
1987-1988 Beverly Hills Buntz (TV Series)...Rebecca Giswold
1987 Deadly Nightmares (TV Series)...Belinda Haskell
Secret Ingredient (1987)
1986-1987 Crime Story (TV Series)...Marilyn Stewart
1985 Fletch...Gail Stanwyk
1984 Mrs. Soffel...Jessie Bodyne
1984 The Little Drummer Girl...Katrin
To see Then & Now pictures of Julia Sweeney, visit: Celebrity Nooz*--Answers to DEAD OR ALIVE--Bob Denver - DEAD (Cancer)
Born: 01/09/1935 Died: 09/02/2005
Ursula Andress - ALIVE
Born: 03/19/1936
Hope Lange - DEAD (Colitis)
Born: 11/28/1933 Died: 12/19/2003
*WHO PASSED ON THIS WEEK...6/18
Simmy Lewis, 96, South African Hall of Fame boxing official.
Vladimir Popovkin, 56, Russian head of the Federal Space Agency (2011-2013).
Sushil Roy, 78, Indian militant and political prisoner, member of the Politburo for the CPI (Maoist).
Horace Silver, 85, American jazz pianist.
Philip Snell, 85, British livestock breeder, chief steward for the Royal Bath and West Show.
6/17
Paulo Barros, 55, Brazilian football player and manager, heart attack.
Richard Durrett, 38, American sports journalist (ESPN, The Dallas Morning News, Texas Rangers), brain aneurysm.
Stanley Marsh 3, 76, American artist and philanthropist, patron of Cadillac Ranch.
Jackson Kimeu Mulinge, 91, Kenyan military officer, General Commander of the Defence Forces, crushed coup d'état attempt (1982).
Arnold S. Relman, 91, American physician, editor (New England Journal of Medicine) and health care activist, cancer.
Jorge Romo, 90, Mexican footballer (national team).
Larry Zeidel, 86, Canadian hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Blackhawks, Philadelphia Flyers), complications from heart failure and kidney problems.
6/16
Charles Barsotti, 80, American cartoonist (The New Yorker), brain cancer.
C. David Burgin, 75, American newspaper editor and executive (San Francisco Examiner, The Houston Post).
Pierre D'Archambeau, 87, Belgian-born American violinist.
Tony Gwynn, 54, American Hall of Fame baseball player (San Diego Padres), salivary gland cancer.
T. Prabhakar Rao, 64, Indian politician, Andhra Pradesh MLA for Nandigama, cardiac arrest.
Cándido Muatetema Rivas, 54, Equatoguinean politician and diplomat, Prime Minister (2001-2004), Ambassador to Germany (2005-2014).
Cristian Sanchez Muñoz, 21, Spanish footballer (Real Aviles), leukemia.
Bernarda Seitz, 86, Argentine writer and television chef, stroke.
Eddie Zondi, 47, South African radio broadcaster (Metro FM), heart attack.
6/15
Khushal Bahl, 87, Indian politician, Punjab MLA for Gurdaspur (1972-1980, 1992-1997, 2002-2007), cardiac arrest.
Giancarlo Danova, 75, Italian footballer.
Larry Dupree, 71, American football player (Florida Gators), heart attack.
Fathiya El-Assal, 81, Egyptian writer, playwright and civil rights activist.
Ray Fox, 98, American Hall of Fame NASCAR engine builder and team owner (Junior Johnson, Cale Yarborough), pneumonia.
Sardar Fazlul Karim, 89, Pakistani-Bangladeshi politician, political prisoner, academic and literary translator, member of the CAP, multiple organ failure.
Casey Kasem, 82, American radio personality (American Top 40) and voice actor (Shaggy Rogers), Lewy body dementia.
Daniel Keyes, 86, American author (Flowers for Algernon), complications from pneumonia.
Andrei Kharlov, 45, Russian chess grandmaster.
Petrus Oellibrandt, 78, Belgian racing cyclist.
Moise Safra, 79, Syrian-born Brazilian billionaire financier, founder and chairman of Banco Safra, Parkinson's disease.
6/14
Alberto Canas Escalante, 94, Costa Rican writer, journalist and politician, MP for San Jose (1962-1966, 1994-1998), complications following surgery.
Alex Chandre de Oliveira, 36, Brazilian footballer (Hangzhou Greentown), heart attack.
Isabelle Collin Dufresne, 78, French-born American actress (I, a Man), artist, author and model (Andy Warhol), cancer.
Irene Forbes, 65, Cuban Olympic fencer (1972).
Alhaj Zahirul Haque, 71, Bangladeshi photojournalist, liver failure.
Sam Kelly, 70, British actor ('Allo 'Allo!, Porridge), cancer.
Robert Lebeck, 85, German photojournalist.
Herral Long, 84, American photojournalist (Toledo Blade), heart failure.
Handry Masih, Pakistani Baloch politician, MLA for Quetta, shot.
Francis Matthews, 86, English film and television actor (Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, The Revenge of Frankenstein, Dracula: Prince of Darkness).
Jordan McDonald, 30, Canadian equestrian rider, cardiac arrest following horse fall during competition.
Ivor Mendonca, 79, Guyanese cricketer (West Indies), throat and prostate cancer.
Alexandr Ort, 87, Czech historian and political scientist.
James E. Rogers, 75, American educator and media owner (KSNV-DT, IWCC), Chancellor of Nevada System of Higher Education (2005-2009), cancer.
Jack Schlegel, 90, American World War II veteran.
Telangana Shakuntala, 63, Indian film and stage actress, cardiac arrest.
Rodney Thomas, 41, American football player (Texas A&M Aggies, Tennessee Titans).
Benjamin Winter, 25, German equestrian rider, fall from horse during a cross-country competition.
María Wonenburger, 86, Spanish mathematician, Kac-Moody algebra pioneer, first woman and Spanish citizen to earn Fullbright Scholarship.
6/13
Mark Ballinger, 65, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians).
Mahdi Elmandjra, 81, Moroccan economist and futurologist.
Gyula Grosics, 88, Hungarian football player (Tatabánya, Budapest Honvéd, national team) and manager, Olympic champion (1952).
Tadahiko Hirano, 76, Japanese baritone, heart attack.
Abdallah Kamal, 49, Egyptian newspaper journalist, editor, author and politician, MP, heart attack.
Jim Keays, 67, Australian rock musician (The Masters Apprentices), pneumonia as a complication of multiple myeloma.
Kefee Obareki Don Momoh, Nigerian gospel singer, lung failure.
Julio Eduardo Laínez Somoza, 76, Salvadoran-born Costa Rican photojournalist and artist.
Roderick A. Macdonald, 65, Canadian jurist, throat cancer.
David MacLennan, 65, Scottish theatre producer, co-founder of 7:84, motor neurone disease.
Jimmy Nelson, 92, Irish rugby union player (British and Irish Lions, national team), Triple Crown winner (1948).
Chuck Noll, 82, American football player (Cleveland Browns) and Hall of Fame coach (Pittsburgh Steelers), most coached Super Bowl wins (IX, X, XIII, XIV), natural causes.
Shanti Patel, 93, Indian politician, freedom fighter and trade unionist, MP (1980-1984) and Mayor (1970-1971) of Mumbai.
Robert Peters, 89, American poet, playwright, editor and actor, natural causes.
Kaneti Mohan Rao, 97, Indian politician and freedom fighter, MP for Rajahmundry.
Richard Rockefeller, 65, American billionaire physician, plane crash.
Jack Roeser, 90, American engineer, manufacturing executive and political activist.
Aris Stathakis, 71, Greek sports journalist, commentator and politician, MP for Athens (2004-2007).
Iain Stewart, 68, Scottish newspaper executive, managing director of the Leinster Leader.
Majed Sultan, Kuwaiti actor, director and poet.
6/12
Don Bennett, 80, English cricket player and coach (Middlesex).
Cameron Fox, 36, American gay porn actor (Falcon Studios).
Nabil Hemani, 34, Algerian footballer (JS Kabylie, ES Setif, national team), fall.
Dan Jacobson, 85, South African writer and academic.
Richard King, 56, Filipino hotelier, CEO and Chairman of Crown Regency Hotel and Towers, shot.
Dahiru Kuta, 65, Nigerian politician, Senator for Niger East (since 2007).
Carla Laemmle, 104, American actress (The Phantom of the Opera, The Broadway Melody, Dracula), natural causes.
Donald Macaulay, Baron Macaulay of Bragar, 80, British politician and life peer.
Khagen Mahanta, 71, Indian folk singer, cardiac ailment.
John K. McKinley, 94, American oil executive and philanthropist, CEO and Chairman of Texaco (1980-1986).
Lennis Moore, 64, American museum executive, CEO of Old Thresher's Reunion, complications from a brain tumor.
Jonny Morelli, 30, Italian metal drummer, traffic collision.
Enzo Pastor, 32, Filipino race-car driver, shot.
Joe Pittman, 60, American baseball player (Houston Astros, San Diego Padres).
Shaktipada Rajguru, 92, Indian Bengali language writer.
Steve Robinson, 51, American soldier and military veteran rights activist, director of Veterans for America.
Frank Schirrmacher, 54, German journalist, writer and newspaper publisher (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), heart attack.
Jimmy Scott, 88, American jazz singer.
Rohit Sethi, 65, Indian Army officer, Vir Chakra awardee, strangled.
Stanislav Stefl, Czech astronomer, traffic collision.
Francesc Vallverdu, 78, Spanish poet, essayist and translator.