Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, January 8, 1995                   TAG: 9501070047
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 6   EDITION: METRO 
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NAME: MEIGRA NICHOLS.

OCCUPATION: Actress. Has appeared in New York theater, television commercials, tended bar in Hoboken, and modeled. Recently began modeling exclusively for the New York agency Gilla Roos Inc. Just completed a test commercial for Clairol.

LIVES IN: Jersey City, New Jersey.

MARRIED: To actor Mark Nichols.

CHILDREN: Hannah, 2.

HOMETOWN: Blacksburg.

PARENTS: Derrick and Rhoda Myers, Blacksburg.

EDUCATION: Blacksburg High School, New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

ARRIVED IN NEW YORK: l985.

REASON: To attend college.

FIRST CAREER CHOICE: Pilot. "I just thought that would be a really cool thing to do."

Alas, her eyesight wasn't good enough.

QUOTE: "It you stick it out until there are people who know you, and you go (to auditions) and you go and you go, you will get somewhere. You'll find your niche."