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Actress, Nichelle Nichols, was born Grace Nichols on Dec 28, 1932 in Robbins, IL. As of December 2025, Nichelle Nichols was 93 years old.

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She was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Television.

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Nichelle Nichols on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame

6633 Hollywood Blvd.


Ceremony Date: Jan 9, 1992
Category: Television
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Nichelle Nichols Facts
From the late 1970s until 1987, Nichelle Nichols was employed by NASA and was in charge of astronaut recruits and hopefuls. Most of the recruits that she launched were minority candidates of different races and/or ethnicities, as well as gender, like Guion Bluford (the first African American male astronaut), Sally Ride (the first American female astronaut), Judith A. Resnik (one of the original female astronauts recruited by NASA, who perished during the launch of the Challenger on January 28, 1986), and Ron McNair (another victim of the Challenger disaster). She lived in Houston, Texas during her years as a Johnson Space Center employee.
Discovered by Duke Ellington in her mid-teens, she toured with both Ellington and Lionel Hampton as a lead singer and dancer. Decades later, in 1992, she went back to her singing "roots", starring in a dramatic one-woman musical show called "Reflections", in which she became 12 separate song legends. She was also able to use her singing skills a few times in the "Star Trek" (1966) series'.
Confessed in her autobiography she once had a close, personal relationship with "Star Trek" (1966) creator Gene Roddenberry.
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