Nichelle Nichols - wikipedia Nichelle Nichols Nichelle Nichols Nichols in 2013. Grace Dell Nichols ( 1932 - 12 - 28 ) December 28, 1932 ( age 85 ) Robbins, Illinois, U.S. Residence Woodland Hills, California, U.S. Occupation Actress singer Years active 1959 -- present Known for Lt. Uhura -- Star Trek Home town Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Spouse ( s ) Foster Johnson ( m. 1951 ; div. 1951 ) Duke Mondy ( m. 1968 ; div. 1972 ) Children Website nichellenichols.com Nichelle Nichols ( born Grace Dell Nichols ; December 28, 1932 ) is an American actress, singer, and voice artist. She sang with Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton before turning to acting. Nichols played communications officer Lieutenant ( later, Commander ) Uhura aboard the USS Enterprise in the Star Trek television series ( 1966 -- 1969 ), as well as the succeeding motion pictures. Nichols 's role was groundbreaking as one of the first African American female characters on American television not portrayed as a servant. She also worked to recruit diverse astronauts to NASA, including women and ethnic minorities. Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2.1 Star Trek 2.2 Other acting roles 2.3 Music 3 NASA work 4 Personal life 5 Recognition 6 Filmography 7 Television 8 Video games 9 Bibliography 10 References 11 External links Early Life Grace Dell Nichols was born in Robbins, Illinois, near Chicago, to Samuel Earl Nichols, a factory worker who was elected both town mayor of Robbins and its chief magistrate, and his wife, Lishia ( Parks ) Nichols. Later, the family moved into an apartment in Chicago. She studied in Chicago as well as New York and Los Angeles. Her break came in an appearance in Kicks and Co., Oscar Brown 's highly touted, but ill - fated 1961 musical. In a thinly veiled satire of Playboy magazine, she played Hazel Sharpe, a voluptuous campus queen who was being tempted by the devil and Orgy Magazine to become `` Orgy Maiden of the Month ''. Although the play closed after its brief try - out in Chicago, in an ironic twist, she attracted the attention of Hugh Hefner, the publisher of Playboy, who booked her for his Chicago Playboy Club. While still in Chicago, she performed at the `` Blue Angel '', and in New York, Nichols appeared at that city 's Blue Angel as a dancer and singer. She also appeared in the role of Carmen for a Chicago stock company production of Carmen Jones and performed in a New York production of Porgy and Bess. Between acting and singing engagements, Nichols did occasional modeling work. In January 1967, Nichols also was featured on the cover of Ebony magazine, and had two feature articles in the publication in five years. Nichols toured the United States, Canada and Europe as a singer with the Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton bands. On the West Coast, she appeared in The Roar of the Greasepaint -- The Smell of the Crowd, For My People, and garnered high praise for her performance in the James Baldwin play Blues for Mister Charlie. Prior to being cast as Lieutenant Uhura in Star Trek, Nichols was a guest actress on television producer Gene Roddenberry 's first series The Lieutenant ( 1964 ) in an episode, `` To Set It Right '', which dealt with racial prejudice. Career Star Trek Main article : Uhura Nichols as Lieutenant Uhura on Star Trek, 1967. On Star Trek, Nichols was one of the first black women featured in a major television series not portraying a servant ; her prominent supporting role as a bridge officer was unprecedented. During the first year of the series, Nichols was tempted to leave the series, as she wanted to pursue a Broadway career ; however, a conversation with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. changed her mind. She has said that King personally encouraged her to stay on the series, telling her that he was a big fan of Star Trek. He said she `` could not give up '' because she was playing a vital role model for black children and young women across the country, as well as for other children who would see blacks appearing as equals. In an interview, she said that the day after she told Roddenberry she planned to leave the show, she was at a fundraiser at the NAACP and was told there was a big fan who wanted to meet her. Nichols said : I thought it was a Trekkie, and so I said, ' Sure. ' I looked across the room, and there was Dr. Martin Luther King walking towards me with this big grin on his face. He reached out to me and said, ' Yes, Ms. Nichols, I am your greatest fan. ' He said that Star Trek was the only show that he, and his wife Coretta, would allow their three little children to stay up and watch. ( She told King about her plans to leave the series. ) I never got to tell him why, because he said, ' You ca n't. You 're part of history. ' When she told Roddenberry what King had said, he cried. Former NASA astronaut Mae Jemison has cited Nichols ' role of Lieutenant Uhura as her inspiration for wanting to become an astronaut and Whoopi Goldberg has also spoken of Nichols ' influence. Goldberg asked for a role on Star Trek : The Next Generation, and the character Guinan was specially created, while Jemison appeared on an episode of the series. In her role as Lieutenant Uhura, Nichols kissed white actor William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk in the November 22, 1968, Star Trek episode `` Plato 's Stepchildren ''. The episode is cited as the first example of an interracial kiss on U.S. television. The Shatner / Nichols kiss was seen as groundbreaking, even though it was portrayed as having been forced by alien telekinesis. There was some praise and some protest. On page 197 of her 1994 autobiography Beyond Uhura, Star Trek and Other Memories, Nichols cites a letter from a white Southerner who wrote, `` I am totally opposed to the mixing of the races. However, any time a red - blooded American boy like Captain Kirk gets a beautiful dame in his arms that looks like Uhura, he ai n't gon na fight it. '' During the Comedy Central Roast of Shatner on August 20, 2006, Nichols jokingly referred to the kiss and said, `` Let 's make TV history again -- and you can kiss my black ass ! '' Despite the cancellation of the series in 1969, Star Trek lived on in other ways, and continued to play a part in Nichols ' life. She again provided the voice of Uhura in Star Trek : The Animated Series ; in one episode, `` The Lorelei Signal '', Uhura assumes command of the Enterprise. Nichols noted in her autobiography her frustration that this never happened on the original series. Nichols has co-starred in six Star Trek films, the last one being Star Trek VI : The Undiscovered Country. Other acting roles In 1994, Nichols published her autobiography Beyond Uhura : Star Trek and Other Memories. In it, she claimed that the role of Peggy Fair in the television series Mannix was offered to her during the final season of Star Trek, but producer Gene Roddenberry refused to release her from her contract. Between the end of the original series and the Star Trek animated series and feature films, Nichols appeared in small television and film roles. She briefly appeared as a secretary in Doctor, You 've Got to Be Kidding ! ( 1967 ), and portrayed a foul - mouthed madam in Truck Turner ( 1974 ) opposite Isaac Hayes, her only appearance in a blaxploitation film. Nichols appeared in animated form as one of Al Gore 's Vice Presidential Action Rangers in the `` Anthology of Interest I '' episode of Futurama, and she provided the voice of her own head in a glass jar in the episode `` Where No Fan Has Gone Before ''. She voiced the recurring role of Elisa Maza 's mother Diane Maza in the animated series Gargoyles, and played Thoth - Kopeira in an episode of Batman : The Animated Series. In 2004, she provided the voice for herself in The Simpsons episode `` Simple Simpson ''. In the comedy film Snow Dogs ( 2002 ), Nichols appeared as the mother of the male lead, played by Cuba Gooding Jr. In 2006, she appeared as the title character in the film Lady Magdalene 's, the madam of a legal Nevada brothel in tax default. She also served as executive producer and choreographer, and sang three songs in the film, two of which she composed. In addition to her acting skills, Nichols is an accomplished dancer and singer. She has twice been nominated for the Chicago theatrical Sarah Siddons Award for Best Actress. The first nomination was for her portrayal of Hazel Sharpe in Kicks and Co. ; the second for her performance in The Blacks. Nichols in September 2012. Nichols played a recurring role on the second season of the NBC drama Heroes. Her first appearance was on the episode `` Kindred '', which aired October 8, 2007. She portrayed Nana Dawson, the matriarch of a New Orleans family financially and personally devastated by Hurricane Katrina, who cares for her orphaned grandchildren and her great - nephew, series regular Micah Sanders. In 2008, Nichols starred in the film The Torturer, playing the role of a psychiatrist. In 2009, she joined the cast of The Cabonauts, a sci - fi musical comedy that debuted on the Internet. Playing CJ, the CEO of the Cabonauts Inc, Nichols is also featured singing and dancing. On August 30, 2016, she was introduced as the aging mother of Neil Winters on the long - standing soap opera The Young and the Restless. She received her first Daytime Emmy nomination in the `` Outstanding Guest Performer in a Drama Series '' category for this role March 22, 2017. Music Nichols has released two music albums. Down to Earth is a collection of standards released in 1967, during the original run of Star Trek. Out of This World, released in 1991, is more rock oriented and is themed around Star Trek and space exploration. NASA work Nichols ( fourth from the left ) with most of the cast of Star Trek visiting the Space Shuttle Enterprise at the Rockwell International plant at Palmdale, California, USA, 1976. After the cancellation of Star Trek, Nichols volunteered her time in a special project with NASA to recruit minority and female personnel for the space agency. She began this work by making an affiliation between NASA and a company which she helped to run, Women in Motion. The program was a success. Among those recruited were Dr. Sally Ride, the first American female astronaut, and United States Air Force Colonel Guion Bluford, the first African - American astronaut, as well as Dr. Judith Resnik and Dr. Ronald McNair, who both flew successful missions during the Space Shuttle program before their deaths in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986. Recruits also included Charles Bolden, the former NASA administrator and veteran of four shuttle missions, Frederick D. Gregory, former deputy administrator and a veteran of three shuttle missions and Lori Garver, former deputy administrator. An enthusiastic advocate of space exploration, Nichols has served since the mid-1980s on the board of governors of the National Space Society, a nonprofit, educational space advocacy organization founded by Dr. Wernher von Braun. In late 2015, Nichols flew aboard NASA 's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy ( SOFIA ) Boeing 747SP, which analyzed the atmospheres of Mars and Saturn on an eight - hour, high - altitude mission. She was also a special guest at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, on July 17, 1976, to view the Viking 1 soft landing on Mars. Along with the other cast members from the original Star Trek series, she attended the christening of the first space shuttle, Enterprise, at the North American Rockwell assembly facility in Palmdale, California. On July 14, 2010, she toured the space shuttle simulator and Mission Control at the Johnson Space Center. Personal Life Nichols ' brother, Thomas, was a member of the Heaven 's Gate cult. He died on March 26, 1997 in the cult 's mass suicide that purposely coincided with the passing of the Hale - Bopp comet. A member for 20 years, he identified himself as the brother of Nichols in the group videotape ( after leader Marshall Applewhite brought it up ) prior to the event and left a final message saying : `` I 'm the happiest person in the world. '' In her autobiography, Nichols stated that she was romantically involved with Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry for several years in the 1960s. She said the affair ended well before Star Trek began, when she and Roddenberry realized he was in love with Majel Hudec, who was an acquaintance of Nichols '. When Roddenberry 's health was fading, Nichols co-wrote a song for him, entitled `` Gene '', which she sang at his funeral. Nichols has been married twice, first to dancer Foster Johnson ( 1917 -- 1981 ). They were married in 1951 and divorced that same year. Johnson and Nichols had one child together, Kyle Johnson, who was born August 14, 1951. She married Duke Mondy in 1968 and they were divorced in 1972. On February 29, 2012, Nichols met with President Barack Obama in the White House Oval Office. She later Tweeted about the meeting, `` Months ago, Pres Obama was quoted as saying that he 'd had a crush on me when he was younger, '' Nichols also wrote. `` I asked about that and he proudly confirmed it ! President Obama also confirmed for me that he was definitely a Trekker ! How wonderful is that ? ! '' On June 4, 2015, Nichols ' booking agency announced that she had suffered a mild stroke at her Los Angeles home and had been admitted to a Los Angeles - area hospital. This was barely three months after the death of her friend and Star Trek co-star Leonard Nimoy. Doctors were conducting tests to determine the severity of the stroke. Nichols was reportedly awake and resting comfortably. An online news article by Frazier Moore of the Associated Press, which cited news updates from the actress 's Facebook page, stated that, four days afterward, the hospitalized actress was feeling much better and was improving, remaining cheerful and alert and taking the time to read the messages from fans and well - wishers on her Facebook page, of which there were many. A magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI ) scan did reveal a small stroke but she was able to begin inpatient therapy on June 5, 2015, for rehabilitation and recovery and to further evaluate her condition and determine the prognosis. Her fellow Star Trek actor George Takei, who played Hikaru Sulu, wished her well on his Twitter account page. In May 2018, Nichols ' son, Kyle Johnson, announced that she was suffering from `` severe '' short - term memory loss as a complication of advanced dementia. Johnson officially filed legal documents nominating four fiduciaries to become Nichols ' conservators, giving them executive control over her financial and health - related decisions. A 2013 video shows Nichols revealing that her son has tried to stop her from working and attending Trekkie conventions. Recognition Nichols is an honorary member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Robert A. Heinlein in part dedicated his novel Friday ( 1982 ) to her. On June 8, 2010, Nichols received an honorary degree from Los Angeles Mission College. Asteroid 68410 Nichols is named in her honor. In 2016, she received The Life Career Award, from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films and it was presented as part of the 42nd Saturn Awards ceremony. Filmography Year Title Role Notes 1959 Porgy and Bess Dancer Uncredited 1966 Tarzan 's Deadly Silence Ruana Made in Paris Buyer at Salon Mister Buddwing Dice Player 1967 Doctor, You 've Got to Be Kidding ! Jenny Ribbock Truck Turner Dorinda 1979 Star Trek : The Motion Picture Lt. Commander Uhura 1982 Star Trek II : The Wrath of Khan Commander Uhura 1984 Star Trek III : The Search for Spock Commander Uhura 1986 Star Trek IV : The Voyage Home Commander Uhura The Supernaturals Sgt. Leona Hawkins Star Trek V : The Final Frontier Commander Uhura 1991 Star Trek VI : The Undiscovered Country Commander Uhura 1995 The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space High Priestess of Pangea 2002 Snow Dogs Amelia Brooks Surge of Power : The Stuff of Heroes Oman 2005 Are We There Yet ? Miss Mable 2008 Lady Magdalene 's Lady Magdalene / Maggie Tru Loved Grandmother The Torturer Doc 2012 This Bitter Earth Clara Watkins 2016 Renegades Admiral Grace Jemison 2017 The Order Television Year Title Role Notes 1964 The Lieutenant Norma Bartlett `` To Set It Right '' 1966 -- 69 Star Trek Lieutenant Uhura Series regular 1973 Star Trek : The Animated Series Lieutenant Uhura / Additional voices 1984 Antony and Cleopatra Charmian -- Maid of Honour 1994 Gargoyles Diane Maza Guest appearance in four episodes through 1998 Batman : The Animated Series Thoth - Khepera `` Avatar '' Star Trek : Deep Space Nine Lieutenant Uhura Archive footage used in one episode ( `` Trials and Tribble - ations '' ) 2000 Futurama Herself `` Anthology of Interest I '' 2002 Futurama Herself `` Where No Fan Has Gone Before '' 2007 Heroes Nana Dawson `` Kindred '' Star Trek : Of Gods and Men Captain Nyota Uhura 2009 The Cabonauts CJ Scooby - Doo ! Curse of the Lake Monster Senator 2016 The Young and the Restless Neil Winter 's long lost mother Lucinda 2017 Downward Dog Deejay Devine Video games Year Title Role Notes Star Trek : 25th Anniversary Enhanced Lt. Uhura 1994 Star Trek : Judgment Rites Lt. Uhura Bibliography Nichols, Nichelle ; Bonanno, Margaret Wander ( 1996 ). Saturn 's Child. New York : Ace Books. ISBN 0 - 441 - 00384 - 2. Nichols, Nichelle ( 1995 ). Beyond Uhura : Star Trek and Other Memories. New York : Boulevard Books. ISBN 1 - 57297 - 011 - 1. Nichols, Nichelle ; Meechan, Jim ( 2002 ). Saturna 's Quest. California : Planet X Publications. ISBN 0 - 9719154 - 0 - 7. References Star Trek portal Jump up ^ African American Culture - Nichelle Nichols ( 1932 - ) Jump up ^ Women in Space - Following Valentina - Nichelle Nichols - By Shayler David, Ian A. Moule Jump up ^ Encyclopedia of African American Actresses in Film and Television - Nichelle Nichols ( 28 December 1932 ) - By Bob McCann ^ Jump up to : Nishi, Dennis ( January 17, 2011 ). `` ' Star Trek 's ' Nichelle Nichols on How Martin Luther King Jr. Changed Her Life ''. SpeakEasy. Jump up ^ `` Nichelle Nichols Biography ( 1933 - ) ''. filmreference.com. Jump up ^ `` Kicks and Co. Original Broadway Cast -- 1961 Broadway ''. BroadwayWorld. Retrieved 1 September 2013. Jump up ^ Johnson, John H., ed. ( January 1962 ). `` Satirical flop brings star success ''. Ebony. Chicago, Illinois : Johnson Publishing Company, Inc. 17 ( 3 ) : 41 -- 42, 44, 46 -- 47. Jump up ^ Still, Larry ( October 12, 1961 ). Johnson, John H., ed. `` Oscar Brown musical gets warm reception in windy city ''. Jet. Chicago, Illinois : Johnson Publishing Company, Inc. 20 ( 25 ) : 58 -- 61. Jump up ^ Johnson, John H., ed. ( January 1967 ). `` A new star in the tv heavens ''. Ebony. Chicago, Illinois : Johnson Publishing Company, Inc. 22 ( 3 ) : 70 -- 72, 74, 76. Jump up ^ `` Nichelle Nichols ''. Pioneers of Television. Jump up ^ `` Lieutenant, The : To Set It Right ( TV ) ''. The Paley Center for Media. Retrieved 1 September 2013. Jump up ^ Huff, Richard ( January 17, 2011 ). `` ' Star Trek ' actress Nichelle Nichols : Martin Luther King Jr. impacted decision to stay on Enterprise ''. Daily News. New York. Jump up ^ `` Interview by Neil deGrasse Tyson on StarTalk, relating her encounter with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr ''. StarTalk Radio Show by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Retrieved 29 September 2014. Jump up ^ Nichols, Nichelle ( 1994 ). Beyond Uhura : Star Trek and Other Memories. New York : G.P. Putnam & Sons. pp. 164 -- 65. Jump up ^ The Detroit Free Press ; September 6, 2016 ; p. 3C Jump up ^ http://transporting.to/CyberWoman/whoopi.html Whoopi Goldberg interview on Star Trek DVD Jump up ^ Nichols, Nichelle ( April 7, 2002 ). `` Nichelle Nichols -- Communications expert Uhuru from Star Trek 's Original series '' ( Interview ). Interviewed by BBC Cult Television. BBC. Retrieved April 1, 2007. Jump up ^ `` Shattered TV Taboos : How Bea Arthur and Others Broke Barriers ''. TV Guide. Retrieved 29 September 2014. Jump up ^ `` After 40 Years, Star Trek ' Wo n't Die ' ''. Space.com. Retrieved 29 September 2014. Jump up ^ `` TrekToday -- Nichols Talks First Inter-Racial Kiss ''. Retrieved 29 September 2014. Jump up ^ `` The 44th Annual Daytime Emmy Award Nominations '' ( PDF ). New York City : emmyonline.org and National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. March 22, 2017. Retrieved March 22, 2017. Jump up ^ Lindsay Planer. `` Down to Earth ''. AllMusic. Jump up ^ Nichelle Nichols, NASA Recruiter Archived December 22, 2009, at the Wayback Machine., Great Images In NASA. Jump up ^ `` To boldly go, Groundbreaking actress Nichelle Nichols continues to expand her horizons '', By Erika Prafder, NY Post. February 1, 2011. Jump up ^ `` Where No Woman Has Gone Before : An Actress Spotlight on Nichelle Nichols ''. Retrieved 29 September 2014. Jump up ^ `` Black History Month Profile : Nichelle Nichols ''. Retrieved 29 September 2014. ^ Jump up to : `` Nichelle Nichols, National Space Society Board of Governors ''. Retrieved 29 September 2014. Jump up ^ `` Nichelle Nichols ''. encyclopedia.com. Jump up ^ Q & A : Nichelle Nichols, AKA Lt. Uhura, and NASA, Smithsonian magazine, June 23, 2011. Jump up ^ photos posted at http://[y]frog.com/3uph3ojj ( remove ( brackets ) ) and http://twitpic.com/25brxs Jump up ^ `` Nichelle Nichols ' Connection to Heaven 's Gate ''. Retrieved 29 September 2014. Jump up ^ `` Some members of suicide cult castrated ''. CNN. Retrieved May 20, 2010. Jump up ^ LA Weekly -- News -- Heaven 's Gate : The Sequel -- Joshuah Bearman -- The Essential Online Resource for Los Angeles Jump up ^ Nichelle Nichols, Beyond Uhura ( 1994 ). Jump up ^ `` OBAMA Gives Vulcan Salute ''. USA TODAY. April 5, 2012. Retrieved 1 February 2017. Jump up ^ `` Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek 's Lt Uhura, suffers stroke ''. BBC. 5 June 2015. Jump up ^ `` ' Star Trek ' Star Nichelle Nichols Hospitalized ''. msn.com. ^ Jump up to : `` Tragic News About ' Star Trek ' Actress And Black Icon Nichelle Nichols ''. BET. May 4, 2018. Retrieved May 5, 2018. Jump up ^ `` ' Star Trek ' Star Nichelle Nichols Suffering From Severe Memory Loss, According to Son ''. TMZ. May 4, 2018. Retrieved May 5, 2018. Jump up ^ `` Star Trek 's Nichelle Nichols ' emotional plea to family amid court battle to stop her working after dementia diagnosis ''. Mirror. 2 August 2018. Jump up ^ `` Priority One Distress Call : The Battle for the Dignity and Estate of Nichelle Nichols ''. Nerd Union. 12 August 2018. Jump up ^ Heinlein, Robert A. ( 1984 ). Friday. New England Library. ISBN 0 - 450 - 05549 - 3. Jump up ^ Chamberlin, Alan. `` JPL Small - Body Database Browser ''. ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2016 - 11 - 22. Jump up ^ Swift, Andy ; Swift, Andy ( 2016 - 07 - 26 ). `` Y&R Beams Up Star Trek Alumna Nichelle Nichols for ' Emotional ' Role ''. TVLine. Retrieved 2016 - 11 - 22. External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nichelle Nichols. 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Question: who played uhura on the original star trek
Answer: Nichelle Nichols