In this week’s issue, Margaret Moser talks with Dana Wheeler-Nicholson about her burgeoning singing career. But if you know her face, it’s probably from her almost three-decades long body of work on big screens and small.
She made a big splash toweling off in 1985’s Fletch, played Wyatt Earp’s common-law-wife in 1993’s Tombstone, and guest-starred on TV shows from Seinfeld and Sex and the City to the requisite Law & Order franchise stopovers (once on the flagship, twice on spinoff Criminal Intent). Since she moved here in the mid-Aughts, Wheeler-Nicholson has become an integral part of the Austin film and TV community, appearing on the much-loved series Friday Night Lights and such indies as Dance With the One, blacktino, and Five Time Champion. Next up? A role in husband and University of Texas lecturer Alex Smith’s Winter in the Blood.
Click on the right for a gallery of some of Wheeler-Nicholson’s screen work.
This article appears in January 11 • 2013.
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A graduate of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, Kimberley has written about film, books, and pop culture for The Austin Chronicle since 2000. She was named Editor of the Chronicle in 2016; she previously served as the paper’s Managing Editor, Screens Editor, Books Editor, and proofreader. Her work has been awarded by the Association of Alternative Newsmedia for excellence in arts criticism, team reporting, and special section (Best of Austin). The Austin Alliance for Women...
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