17 Facts About Nicole Sullivan

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Nicole Sullivan played Holly Shumpert in five seasons of the CBS sitcom The King of Queens.

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Nicole Sullivan had recurring voice roles on Family Guy and voiced Franny Robinson in Disney's Meet the Robinsons.

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Nicole Sullivan played Jules' therapist, Lynn Mettler, on the comedy Cougar Town.

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Nicole Sullivan portrayed Lyla in the Disney Channel movie Let It Shine in 2012.

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Nicole Sullivan took dance classes at age 7 and performed in Off Broadway and Broadway productions with the First All-Children's Theatre.

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Nicole Sullivan played soccer in high school, recorded statistics for the boys' basketball team and was a member of student council.

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Nicole Sullivan worked two jobs to pay her way through college and writing plays and sketches for the student theatre.

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Nicole Sullivan spent her junior year in London, studying at the British American Drama Academy and became a member of the Greenwich Shakespeare Company.

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Nicole Sullivan graduated from Northwestern and then moved to Los Angeles to start a television career.

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Nicole Sullivan created numerous characters; her most popular was the mean-spirited Vancome Lady.

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Nicole Sullivan played the role of Holly Shumpert from 2001 to 2005.

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Nicole Sullivan returned in 2007 to reprise the role for the final season.

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Nicole Sullivan was originally cast as Turanga Leela, one of the main characters in the animated series Futurama, but the role was recast with Katey Sagal before the show went to air.

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Nicole Sullivan has starred in a pilot called Me and My Needs that was rejected by ABC.

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Also, Nicole Sullivan was a voice actor in the Monsters, Inc video game.

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Nicole Sullivan's charity was Alley Cat Allies, a nonprofit advocacy organization dedicated to transforming communities to protect and improve the lives of cats, which received $100,000 as a result of her victory.

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Nicole Sullivan made an appearance in an episode of It's Me or the Dog along with her husband, their then twenty-month-old son Dashel, their three cats, and their four mixed-breed dogs: Paco, Jackson, Donut, and Funzies.