Paper Dolls (1984)

The show premiered on ABC on September 23 1984 but was cancelled after only 13 episodes.
Following the 1982 movie of the same name, Paper Dolls is set in New York’s fashion industry. There’s the modeling agency owner, Racine, who will do anything to get what she wants. Also the cosmetics and clothes businessmen fighting to get Racine’s models to work for them.
And the models: the 30-years-old Blair, struggling with losing jobs for her age and her family life; top teen model but unhappy Taryn and newcomer Laurie.

Nicollette is the top teenage model Taryn Blake. She might have it all, but she’s not happy. Her mother has made her who she is and won’t let her ruin it. But Taryn doesn’t like to be told what to do and rebels everytime she can. Drugs, romance with a rockstar and a suicide attempt. She also befriends the new girl, much to her mother dismay.

“I don’t wanna be famous. I just wanna be normal!”
“I’m starting to think I can’t do anything right, even commit suicide”

Knots Landing (1979-1993)

Originally intentended to be more like Scenes From A Marriage, CBS asked to adapt the show to follow the success of Dallas. Knots Landing run from December 27 1979 to May 13 1993.
Set in a fictitious coastal suburb of Los Angeles in California, the show centered on the lives of four married couples living in a cul-de-sac, Seaview Circle. Following the move of Gary Ewing from Dallas to California.
In 1997, much of the cast reunited for a two-part television movie called Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac. In 2005, they reunited again for a non-fiction special called Knots Landing Reunion: Together Again.

Nicollette “moved” to Seaview Circle at the end of the season seven, when she arrived to Mac’s door claiming to be his daughter. Paige grew up traveling with Anne all over the world, and at her Grandparents in New York. Her childhood was very unstable. She attended boarding school in Switzerland. Having had it with her family, she faked her own death, and lived off money she got by pawning jewelry. She had a busy love life during her years in Seaview and also became a powerful business woman.
She also played Paige’s mother Anne in a few flashback scenes.

“The only kind of trust you know has the word “fund” behind it”
“Mother, you never cooked a meal for me in my life”

Desperate Housewives (2004-present)

The show premiered on October 3, 2004 on ABC. Set in the treet of Wisteria Lane in the fictional American town of Fairview in the Eagle State. The “normal” suburban life for a group of close-knit housewives takes a dark turn when one of their closest friends mysteriously commits suicide. Now while trying to deal with their own hectic problems and romantic lives, each year brings on a new mystery and more dark and twisted events to come. Life behind closed doors is about to be revealed as suburban life takes a funny and dark turn. Commenting from her elevated P.O.V., Mary Alice took us into the lives of her family, friends and neighbors. This fall, the program resumes five years later on Wisteria Lane with several changes and new secrets in store for her circle of girlfriends.

Nicollette auditioned for the role of Bree Van de Kamp but landed Edie Britt instead. Edie was the realtor and serial divorcée (Married twice and had a son who lived with his father). Labeled as the neighborhood slut, she was proud of it and couldn’t care less that her legendary conquests have alienated her from the other women of Wisteria Lane, her best friend was busybody Martha Huber, who died on Paul Young’s hands. Always fighting with Susan, Edie found a tough rival in Bree when she tried to blackmail her and was forced to leave town.
Five years later Edie returned triumphantly with a new husband, but things weren’t as happy as they seem and Edie died in a car crash after trying to escape from her psycho husband.

“Of course I believe in evil, I work in real estate”
“It’s not hard to die if you know you have lived”

Untitled Charles & Hines Project (aka Lee Mathers) (2010)

Written by Ant Hines and directed by Larry Charles. Eric Tannenbaum, Kim Tannenbaum and Mitch Hurwitz executive produce alongside Charles and Hines. Sony Pictures Television and Tantamount are co-producing. The show was semi-scripted, like Curb Your Enthusiasm, where the scripts only have plots and scenes, and dialogs come from the actors.
It tells the story of a British lowlife, Lee Mathers (Paul Kaye), who moves to L.A. to reconnect with his daughter,Lacey Mays, 14,  star of Carlee Marr – Superstar! But ends up finding another long lost son, Keanu, 17. All while sharing a small apartment and filming his own reality show. Wayne Knight were also set to star alongside Jason Mantzoukas and Matt Walsh.
Sadly, the pilot presentation was not picked up by CBS for the 2010/2011 season.

Nicollette was Lori Mays, the girl’s outrageous stage mother and the deadbeat dad’s long-lost love. Described as botoex and orange, she met Lee in Houston on 1994, lived on the UK but soon left Lee and went back to the States. She wants to pay him off and is dating Victor Dukmejian, 31, Lacey’s Armenian co-manager.

Guest Starring

Paradise (1988-1991)

Renamed to Guns Of Paradise on his third and last season, is an American Western family television series, broadcast on NBC from October 27, 1988 to May 10, 1991 with a total of 57 episodes. The show, created by David Jacobs and Robert Porter gained critics acclamation and had a loyal fanbase.
The series presents the adventures of fictitious gunfighter Ethan Allen Cord, whose sister left her four children in his custody when she died. He realizes his profession was unsuitable to the children upbringing and decides to change, renting a farm in the town of Paradise, California. But his violent past was constantly haunting him and was frequently called upon by the townpeople to defend them from lawlessness.

Nicollette played Lily on the episode 13 of the third season, called “Twenty-Four Hours”. She plays a poor girl who comes to town looking for a job. But her past gets her when her step-daughter shows up in town.

“You got a little extra cash in the pocket, cowboy?”
“It wasn’t enough money to save my life, but it was to save his”

Will & Grace (1998-2006)

This NBC show premiered on September 21. It tells the story of Will & Grace, who are best friends. Will is a gay lawyer and Grace is a straight interior designer. They both live in New York. Grace is engaged to a real jerk, but when that relationship falls apart, she moves in with Will. This is only supposed to be until Grace finds a place of her own, but she and Will end up with each other as permanent roommates. Also in the cast are Jack, Will’s flamboyant gay friend, a struggling actor/singer/dancer who also has had brief careers as a choreographer, cater-waiter, talk-show host and nurse; and Karen, Graces’ secretary/assistant who doesn’t really need to work because she married money several times.

Nicollette lost the role of Grace to Debra in the last auditions but she was invited back as Dr. Danielle Morty in the season 5 finale “24″ that aired on May 15 2003. She meets the gang when giving Grace’s husband Leo some papers for their upcoming trip with Doctor Without Borders.

“Oh, Leo never mentioned he was married”
“All the women at the hospital, they hate you. And one of the male nurses”

Becker (1998-2004)

Misanthropic Dr. John Becker runs a clinic in New York City. He is assisted by super-capable Margaret Wyborn and less-than-capable Linda, who’s only kept on because no one else can stand the doctor. Becker’s best (some would say only) friend is the blind Jake Malinak, who runs a newsstand in the diner across the street. The diner used to be run by Reggie Kostas, but it has been taken over by Chris Conner, a lady whom Becker fluctuates between loathing and being attracted to. The diner is also frequented by Robert Benito, who is universally known as Bob and is the super at Becker’s apartment (much to the doctor’s regret). The show ran on CBS for 6 seasons (129 episodes), from November 2nd 1998 to January 28th 2004.

As Dr. Anna Davis, she meets John on a flight when they both go to Vegas for a medical conference where John is speaking. After sharing some laughs on the plane, Anna dedices to pay Becker a late night visit in his hotel room. Here, Nicollette meets again with Shawnee Smith, with whom she starred on Lucky Chances, but they didn’t share any scene during the episode.

“If they didn’t give out free drugs, nobody would talk to them at all”
“You wanna practice on me?”