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

Violet Beauregarde

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

Self

The Neon Ceiling

Paula Miller

Child of Glass

Connie Sue Armsworth

Zero to Sixty

'Larry' Wilde

Howard

Shirley (archive footage)

Smile

Shirley

Dark Shadows: The Haunting of Collinwood

Amy Jennings (archive footage)