Nicole Kingston

Nicole Kingston grew up in Grantsburg, Wisconsin. While Grantsburg may not be terribly cosmopolitan, as it has a population of only 1,100 people, it can boast about the cheese factory and one terrific mortuary. Well, it’s terrific to her anyway; she spent the better part of her childhood living in it. When she wasn’t using her step-father’s sample caskets as makeshift, luxury condominiums for her troop of Barbie dolls, she would spend untold hours putting on plays and performing gymnastics routines at the front of the mortuary chapel. Her funeral-director, step-father, encouraged her, though he did prefer her to limit the theatrics to times when grieving patrons were not present.
The acting bug bit her hard at the age of five when her mom took her to see a production of Annie Get Your Gun at the local high school. Nicole made her own stage debut at the age of nine when she appeared in The Music Man. Being from such a very small town, plays and theatre classes were few and far between, so she was extremely fortunate to have very supportive parents that drove her an hour and a half into the Twin Cities so that she was able to study her love of acting and gymnastics.
Nicole continued her theatre training at Gustavus Adolphus College, in Minnesota, where she received her B.A. in theatre while performing in various plays and shorts. She also competed on the school’s award winning gymnastics team.
Soon after moving to Los Angeles, Nicole won the lead role in the feature length horror film Scarecrow Slayer alongside Tony Todd of Candyman fame.
She also found herself cast in a small role in the up-coming feature Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover along side Paul Schneider (Elizabethtown and The Family Stone). New Line is predicting this film to be released in the Spring of 2006.
Nicole’s television credits include a featured appearance in a music video for the Warner Records rock group Avenged Seven Fold. She also starred in an episode of Secret Lives for the Lifetime network. Most recently, she was seen in Officer Down, a Lifetime Original Movie with Sharilyn Fenn and Casper Van Dien.

- Nicole’s middle name is Kay, after her mother, whom she loves very much.

-Nicole has three sisters, one brother, three cats, an aquatic red-eared slider turtle and three box turtles.

-Nicole is known as “Nikki” to her friends and family. This is convenient when she is fielding telephone calls, as only telemarketers call her Nicole.

-Nicole’s brother named his western hog-nose snake after her. So if you meet a member of the Wisconsin part of her family and ask, “How’s Nikki?” you will have to specify which one.

-Nicole’s dentist father, Bob Kingston, D.D.S., is directly responsible for her picture perfect smile. Nicole’s stepmother, Mimi, also works in the practice and is mighty handy with all the shiny, sharp, scrapey things. If you live near Minneapolis, and have teeth, or perhaps want teeth, and you’d like to have a sunny smile, rather than hang your snaggle-toothed mug in shame, then call Dr. Bob and Mimi for an appointment.

-If you find yourself near Grantsburg, Wisconsin and you or a loved one has up and shed your mortal coil (known as “dirt-napping” in Wisconsin) then you, or your loved one, need the help of Dave Edling at the Edling Funeral Home. He is the only call to make; the competition stinks. Remember, if your mortician stinks so will you. Take no chances; call the Edling Funeral Home.