Facts & trivia
- Movie Thirteen is co-written by Nikki and her step-mother, good friend and a director, Catherine Hardwicke. This movie describes Nikki's experiences when she was only 13 years old.
- Nikki isn't only an actress, she is a scenarist, too. She co-wrote Thirteen and she also wrote another script set in New Zealand (era between the 1960s and the 1980s).
- She grew up in Culver City in California.
- Nikki wrote the script for Thirteen in six days while she was on her winter holiday.
- She loves horseback riding. She used to go horseback riding everyday when she was younger.
- Nikki can play the Guitar and also can sing.
- Nikki moved on her own when she was only 14 years old.
- Nikki is is scared of getting lice on plane and what's why she always wears a hat.
- Her best friend is DJ Qualls.
- Nikki wears glasses and contact lenses.
- Nikki appeared in music video Santana feat Steven Tyler - Just Feel better.
- Her favourite country is Russia.
- Her favourite city and time is New York in September.
- Nikki loves Cuban food and travelling.
- Her favourite movies are Schindler's List, The Usual Suspects, Requiem For A Dream, Rainman, City of God, True Romance, Nowhere in Africa, The Shawshank Redemption, and The Lion King.
- Her new favorite movie is called Bride Wars.
- Nikki is a huge fan of rap and hip hop. She also listens LaMontagne, Van Morrison, Laura Marling, Adele.
- Nikki prefers large animals, she doesn't understand people who carry dogs in purses.
- Nikki says that if she hasn't became an actresss or a write, she would be happy doing hair.
- When she was 6 years old, her mum taught her how to crochet hats and scarves.
- She spent Summer leaning mono-ski in Greece and she was actually very good!
- She wanted to be a professinal boxer or a tap dancer.
- "The Fall" by Alber Camus is one of her all-time-favourite books.
- Her entire family is composed of artists. Her grandmother is a ceramist, her father in an architect/production designer and her brother is a charcolist. On her mom's side, there are a lot of beauticians.
- She became a big fan of gym, she hates tradmill but she's into lifting weights.
- Nikki thinks she was an elephant in her past life.
- Nikki's putting together a book of poems she wrote in elementary school.
- She learned to surf on Kauai. She's not Hawaiian, but a lot of her family lives there.
- Last year, Nikki decided to go back to school to take history, psychology, buisness and marketing classes.
- Nikki is scared of heights.