found: Antony & Cleopatra [VR] c1983:credits (Nichelle Nichols)
found: Internet movie database, Jan. 10, 2012(Nichelle Nichols; b. December 28, 1932 in Robbins, Illinois, USA; birth name, Grace Nichols; Actress, Producer, Choreographer)
found: African American national biography, accessed March 17, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database(Nichols, Nichelle; Graciella Nichols; dancer, actress, writer; born 28 December 1933 in Robbins, Illinois, United States; took ballet classes at 7; learned to dance Afro-Cuban dance at 14; danced with the College Inn troupe; formed a song-and-dance duo with her husband with Duke Ellington's Orchestra; worked as a file clerk at Goldenrod Ice Cream Company; enrolled in the Cosmopolitan Law School; was headliner in Jimmy Payne's revue Calypso Carnival; cast in episode, Gene Roddenberry's The Lieutenant 1, Star Trek (1963), played part of African American woman as highly trained professional; with William Shatner made television history with the first interracial kiss in the episode titled Plato's Stepchildren (1968); played in six Star Trek movies; traveled around the country speaking on behalf of NASA)
found: New York times online, July 31, 2022(Nichelle Nichols; actress; died on Saturday [July 30, 2022] in Silver City, N.M.; among the first Black women to have a leading role on a network television series; Grace Dell Nichols was born in Robbins, Ill., on Dec. 28, 1932; grew up in Chicago; revered by Star Trek fans for her role as Lieutenant Uhura, the communications officer on the starship U.S.S. Enterprise; in 1977, Ms. Nichols began an association with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, contracting as a representative and speaker to help recruit female and minority candidates for spaceflight training)
