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Denise Nicholas - Room 222 / In The Heat of the Night Actress / Author / Activist on JMS LIVE!

JMS - On this episode of The Jim Masters Show LIVE! entertainment, lifestyle, talk show series, Jim Masters chats with veteran actress, activist and author Denise Nicholas. As an actress, Ms. Nicholas has been applauded for her portrayals of complex, resilient women on film, television and the stage, most memorably for her ground-breaking, starring role as high school guidance counselor Liz McIntyre on the ABC comedy-drama, “Room 222” and for her co-starring role as Councilwoman Harriet DeLong on the drama series, “In the Heat of the Night” opposite the late Carroll O’ Connor. Between those two long running series, Nicholas guest starred on shows as varied as “A Different World,” “Flip,” “Amen,” “227”, “Magnum P.I.,“ “The Cosby Show,” “The Sophisticated Gents” and “My Wife and Kids,” to name a few. She co-starred opposite Bill Cosby in the film “Ghost Dad” and opposite Sidney Poitier and Mr. Cosby in the films, “Let’s Do It Again” and “A Piece of the Action. Along the way, she has garnered three Golden Globe nominations and won three NAACP Image Awards. Nicholas is the recipient of two Los Angeles Emmy Awards for co-producing and performing in the PBS Special, “Voices of My People: in Celebration of Black Poetry.” At the end of the “Heat of the Night” run, Denise, having written 6 episodes for that series under the mentorship of Carroll O’Connor, decided to devote her creative life to writing, the work she had always longed to do. She found her way to “White Oleander” author Janet Fitch’s Journeyman’s Workshop and out of that nose-to-the-grindstone-experience came her novel, “Freshwater Road.” Denise’s autobiographical debut novel was selected as one of the Best Books of 2005, by The Washington Post, The Detroit Free Press, The Atlanta Journal -Constitution, Newsday and The Chicago Tribune. The Washington Post Book World Review wrote: “It’s impossible to praise “Freshwater Road too much. It is surely the best work of fiction about the civil rights movement since Ernest J. Gaines, “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.” The novel received a starred review in Publisher’s Weekly which wrote: “Nicholas’ novel is a rich, absorbing debut…sometimes gorgeous, sometimes terrifying, the debut of a talented writer.” The novel went on to win the Zora Neale Hurston – Richard Wright Award for debut fiction, the American Library Association’s Black Caucus Award for debut fiction and was a Simon & Schuster Book Club Pick as well as a Book Sense pick. In 2008, Brown University presented a staged adaptation of “Freshwater Road” to full houses and critical acclaim. In February 2014, Essence Magazine honored Denise for her involvement in the civil rights movement at its Black Women in Hollywood Luncheon. Join us for this episode of The Jim Masters Show LIVE! Share this link with your friends! Subscribe to our YouTube channel so you never miss any of our upcoming episodes and our surprise pop-up shows and more. You'll be notified when a new episode is coming up! Please give this episode a thumbs up / like on our YouTube channel and drop a comment on the channel too! We'd love it. Enjoy! inspirational videos, empowering videos, civil rights, activism, television, film, Hollywood, Carroll O'Connor, Michael Constantine, Karen Valentine, ABC NBC, humor, comedy, drama, conversations with authors, author interviews, actor interviews, actress interviews, Room 222, Sidney Poitier, Let's Do It Again, movie actress, motivational speaker, activist, In The Heat of the Night, celebrity interviews, 1970s television shows, 1980s television shows, novelist, writer, television script writing, Detroit, meaningful conversations, civil rights movement, Jim Masters TV, The Jim Masters Show, #DeniseNicholas #Room222 #InTheHeatoftheHeight