Nikki Cox

Nicole Avery "Nikki" Cox (born June 2, 1978) is an American actress known mostly for her roles on the television series Unhappily Ever After and Las Vegas.

Early life

Cox was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Meredith and Terry Cox, a personal manager. She has one younger brother, Matthew Cox, who is also an actor.

Early life

Cox was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Meredith and Terry Cox, a personal manager.She has one younger brother, Matthew Cox, who is also an actor.

Career

Cox began her career at the age of four when she appeared as a dancer in several ballet productions and TV specials. She began acting at the age of ten, making appearances in several movies and guest starring on shows such as Baywatch, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Eerie Indiana, and Blossom. She also starred in General Hospital from 1993 to 1995 and had a recurring role on the Saturday morning program California Dreams.

Her appearances on various TV shows led to her first prime-time starring role as Tiffany Malloyon the sitcom Unhappily Ever After, which ran on the WB 1995–1999. Her brother Matthew guest-starred on a handful of episodes, including one where he wore a "Ghostface" mask (à laScream).

When Unhappily was cancelled after taping 100 episodes, Cox went on to portray former prostitute Taylor Clayton on the sitcom The Norm Show and star as Nikki White in Nikki, a sitcom vehicle that lasted for less than two seasons (2000–2002). She starred as Mary Connell on the TV drama Las Vegas from 2003-2007. On May 20 and May 23, 2005, her Las Vegascharacter crossed over to NBC's soap opera Passions to coincide with the arrival of two new characters introduced on Las Vegas.

She is currently the spokesmodel for online gaming giant Sportsbook.com, and is working on Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust, an upcoming video game. She also appeared in Lonely Street, a comedy movie starring Robert Patrick, Jay Mohr (her husband), Ernie Hudsonand Lindsay Price.

Personal life

After being romantically linked to Kevin Connolly, who played her brother on Unhappily Ever After, Cox was engaged in 1999 to Bobcat Goldthwait.

On December 29, 2006, she married comedian/actor Jay Mohr in Los Angeles. In December 2008, Mohr petitioned a Los Angeles court to allow him to legally add her last name to his, changing his name to Jay Ferguson Cox Mohr.

Filmography

Film
Year	Film	Role	Notes
1988	Mac and Me	Dancer	Uncredited
	Moonwalker	Dancer	Segment: "Badder"
1991	Terminator 2: Judgment Day	Girl
1996	The Glimmer Man	Millie
1997	Sub Down	Holliday's Girlfriend	Direct-to-video release Alternative title: Sub Down: Take the Dive
2000	Nutty Professor II: The Klumps	Bright girl	Alternative title: The Klumps
2001	Don's Plum	Karen
2002	Run Ronnie Run	Kayla
2009	Lonely Street	Bambi
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1987	Mama's Family	Little Iola Boyland	1 episode
1989	The Ryan White Story	Andrea White	Television movie
	Star Trek: The Next Generation	Sarjenka	1 episode
1990	A Family for Joe	Carrie Lewis	Television movie
	Night Court	Toni	1 episode
1991	Murphy Brown	Pretty Girl	1 episode
	Eerie, Indiana	Janet	1 episode
1991–1994	Baywatch	Charlene "Charlie" Reed	2 episodes
1992	Davis Rules	Janine	1 episode
	Danger Island	Ariel	Television movie Alternative title: The Presence
1993	Bloodlines: Murder in the Family	Student #2	Television movie
	Blossom	Cynthia	4 episodes
	Boy Meets World	Heather	1 episode
	The Nanny	Cindy Wentworth	1 episode
1993–1995	General Hospital	Gina Williams #1	Unknown episodes
1994	California Dreams	Allison	2 episodes
	Someone Like Me	Samantha "Sam" Stepjak	Unknown episodes
1995–1999	Unhappily Ever After	Tiffany Malloy	100 episodes
1996	Sister, Sister	Nikki	1 episode
	She Cried No	Kellie	Television movie Alternative title: Freshman Fall
1996–1997	Pearl	Margaret Woodrow	2 episodes
1998	The Drew Carey Show	Kristen Carey	1 episode
	The Steve Harvey Show	Herself	1 episode
1998–1999	Penn & Teller's Sin City Spectacular	Herself	1 episode
1999–2001	The Norm Show	Taylor Clayton	7 episodes
2000	Buzz Lightyear of Star Command	Petra (Voice)	1 episode
2000–2002	Nikki	Nikki White	41 episodes
2003–2007	Las Vegas	Mary Connell	87 episodes
2006	The Jake Effect	Liza Wheeler	7 episodes
2007	Fugly	Crystal Stump	Television movie
2008	Ghost Whisperer	Nina Haley	1 episode
2009	The Spectacular Spider-Man	Silver Sable (voice)	2 episodes

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