Who is Julianne Nicholson? The veteran actress plays Sinatra in Hulu’s Paradise and has starred in Law & Order: True Crime, Mare of Easttown and I, Tonya – off camera, she’s a married mother of 2
Massachusetts-born Nicholson moved to New York at 18 to chase her dreams, but ended up working in a coffee shop, then modelling in Paris, before making her mark in Hollywood
In an interview this month with The Hollywood Reporter, Fogelman, best known for shows including This Is Us and Only Murders in the Building, as well as movies Crazy, Stupid, Love and Cars – revealed he lied to executives at 20th Television about the show’s projected production timeline to accommodate Nicholson’s schedule.
When it looked like Nicholson would turn down the project because of other commitments, Fogelman went to great lengths to buy some extra time and accommodate her dates. “I said: ‘We’re not ready to make the show. We need more time in prep,’ which cost a lot of money to extend prep … I made it [seem] about 12 different things, but that allowed for us to delay starting shooting, and allowed Julianne to be free. Now, obviously, everyone’s so glad we did it,” he recalled.
So just who is Julianne Nicholson, who plays steely, enigmatic overseer Samantha “Sinatra” Redmond in Paradise?
What is Julianne Nicholson’s background?
Nicholson, 53, hails from Medford, Massachusetts and has Irish roots. Parents Kate Gilday and James O. Nicholson Jr divorced when she was young, according to the Los Angeles Times, Nicholson moving to the tiny town of Wendell with her mother and stepfather when she was seven. She has three younger siblings.
Nicholson graduated from Arlington Catholic High School and later attended Hunter College in New York, majoring in General Studies.
How did she get into acting?
