Introduction
Cecil Taylor Nichols (born March 3, 1959 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American actor best known for roles in the Whit Stillman films Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Last Days of Disco, and Damsels in Distress. His characters in the first three of these films were insecure, stuttering sidekicks to those of the more outgoing Chris Eigeman. Nichols and Eigeman also played minor roles in the independent film The Next Step, released in 1997, of which Nichols was an associate producer.
Career
Nichols has also appeared in the films Boiler Room, Congo, The American President, The Big Easy, and Jurassic Park III, as well as episodes of the TV series Murder She Wrote, NewsRadio, Chicago Hope, Judging Amy, The Mind of the Married Man and Criminal Minds. In 2007 Nichols appeared in the film The Air I Breathe.
Personal life
Nichols has been married since 1995 to Margarita de Eguilior, a Spanish woman he met during the production of Barcelona. They have two daughters, Alexandra, who was born January 21, 1999, and Lee, born January 10, 2002.