Celebrity Nooz: Dana Wheeler Nicholson

Dana Wheeler-Nicholson (Actress) - Fletch, Tombstone

Updated: 6/19/14

Name: Dana Wheeler-Nicholson

Born: October 9, 1960, New York City, NY

Claim To Fame: She is best known for her roles in films Fletch (1985) and Tombstone (1993).

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Info: Wheeler-Nicholson has appeared in several movies, most notably in Fletch as Gail Stanwyk, and in Tombstone as Mattie Blaylock, Wyatt Earp's common law wife. Her other film credits include Bye Bye Love (1995), Denise Calls Up (1995), Fast Food Nation (2006), and Parkland (2013).

She has appeared on the television shows Seinfeld, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Sex and the City, Boston Public, and Boston Legal. She was cast on the ABC daytime soap opera All My Children in 2001.

Trivia: Graduated Friends Seminary High School, New York City in 1978.

Is the granddaughter of Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, who started DC Comics.

Where Are They Now: From 2007 to 2011 Wheeler-Nicholson had a recurring role in the NBC drama Friday Night Lights as Angela Collette. In 2014, she played the role of Scarlett O'Connor's evil mother Beverly on ABC series Nashville.

She also appeared in the 2013 film Parkland about the events that occurred at Dallas' Parkland Hospital on the day U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. She currently lives in Austin, Texas.

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