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.