Denise Nickerson

Biography

Denise Nickerson (April 1, 1957-July 10, 2019) was an American former actress best known for her roles as the gum-chewing Violet Beauregarde in the 1971 movie Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory as well as Amy Jennings and Nora Collins in the soap opera Dark Shadows. Description above from the Wikipedia article Denise Nickerson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

as Violet Beauregarde

The Brady Bunch

Dark Shadows

Howard

as Shirley (archive footage)

Flipper

Smile

as Shirley

Pure Imagination: The Story of 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'

as Self

The Electric Company

Dark Shadows: The Haunting of Collinwood

as Amy Jennings

Child of Glass

as Connie Sue Armsworth