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Nicki Micheaux Options the Life Story of Former Secret Service Agent to the Obamas

HOLLYWOOD, CA – Actress, Nicki Micheaux (Lincoln Heights, In the Dark, Good Trouble) has optioned the life story of former Secret Service Agent, Holli Draines.  Draines is an African American woman who started in law enforcement, then navigated her career from hometown police officer to United States Secret Service Agent.  Micheaux is developing the project and assembling her team to produce the story for television. 

Producers attached to the project are Corinne Kingsbury, (Executive Producer of In the Dark), and Fourth Wall.  Micheaux, will both star as Holli Draines and produce the project.   

“When I learned of Holli Draines, I knew that I wanted to be the one to tell her powerful story.   I have built a career on playing strong female roles.  This is a culmination of the strength, sensitivity, and wit of those characters combined with the real-life situations of a true badass female.  The opportunity to be both in front and behind the camera is exhilarating,” said Micheaux.

Draines, whose story takes her from white-collar crimes to Presidential Detail during the Obama Administration has an innate nature to protect and serve.  She became inspired during an internship at the local police department while in college, where she found her true calling during ride-alongs.  That experience led her to join the police academy, where she graduated at the top of her class and went on to join the local police force.  It was then that she decided to attend graduate school to further her education.  That is where she was recruited to join the Secret Service.  From there life went from investigations and protection in Brooklyn, to serving the Obama’s in Washington.  She is currently the owner of an elite security firm that is 100% minority owned and operated.  

Micheaux is represented by attorney Jeff Bernstein, of Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner & Klein, and managers Avi Gilbert and Jon Huddle, Fourth Wall Management.

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(via YouTube) Actors join me for a Power Lunch and get your questions ANSWERED!

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Animal Kingdom Premiere TONIGHT

Wow. This show is really twisted and I love it. Watch it tonight. I tried to talk a little bit about what it’s like for me to talk a walk on the wild side with TNT’s new show Animal Kingdom.

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My office. My Friday. 😊🙏🏾 back in the booth with Wells Fargo. #actorslife #success #blessed

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#iam the resurrection and the life. He died so we could be free. Happy easter!

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@stacyebranche that's a wrap with my fab #makeupartist !! Pics r so hot!

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Good morning headshot day! Let's see how we can glam it up. #makeup #setlife #celebritylook

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Nighttime lights. #travelblog #springbreak

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No greater gift than these two children who have blessed my life. To be able to show them the world, feels good. #springbreak #mommylife #travelblog

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Relaxing at the end of the day, waiting for the sunset. By far the best resort I've ever stayed in with the kids. I also decided spring break is for everybody, not just the kids in school! Normally I would work through the break, listening to the kids complain about how they wanted to do something. And me saying, it's still a work week for me kiddos. Lol. In the end, I wouldn't get much done and we would end up doing these last minute rushed activities. So this year I decided to give into the school schedule. If they get a break, well then so do I! Remember the infant rule, get your naps when the baby does? New year, new me. Maui or bust. 😎

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Violence. Abuse. Discrimination. It’s all keeping women and girls around the world trapped in poverty. So let’s act now to get rid of everything that’s holding them back – because it’s right and because it’s the best way to help end poverty. Make your pledge to stand with women and girls today: www.oxfam.org.uk/pledge 

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Diverse indie movies!

My new project – Low Life the movie. The sordid lives of small-time criminals collide when an organ harvesting caper goes very, very wrong. My role in this film is a complicated woman, just trying to make-up for a lifetime of mistakes. A very different mother than Jenn, from Lincoln Heights. It’s a wonderful challenge for an actor to play really big problems, in a very simple way. Love that. But what really drew me to the project was the chance to work again with one of my favorite directors, Ryan Prows.  Our previous film, Narcocorrido, won numerous festivals around the world. Joining together again to shoot off more guns. We have tons of fun. We will complete principal photography in a few weeks and then off to show the world!

Low Life the movie. Follow us and ride it out.

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Acceptance Leads to Success

It was 1998 and I was working at Gladstone’s in Malibu. This was not really a great thing for me. Actually it was really really bad. Here I was an actress in LA still waiting tables after I don’t know how many years. And now, they wouldn’t even allow me to wait tables they made me be a hostess first. Horrible! But it was here waitressing, hosting, and cleaning bathrooms at Gladstone’s in Malibu, where I had a turning point.

I had been reading Deepak Chopra’s book about our creating a life of affluence. Now I had read this book many many times, but this time when I read it, something stuck out. And I remembered reading something about you had to accept where you are, but that didn’t mean that accepting your current situation was going to stop you from getting to where you wanted to be. I had been acting like I had to fight against my current situation. But this made life a daily battle. I had really just been hating my life as a waitress waiting for my life as an actress to take off. So the idea of acceptance was like a breath of fresh air for me. When that moment occurred I began to look at everything differently. I began to appreciate the fact that I worked on the ocean. I loved looking at the ocean every day. It’s the reason I moved to Los Angeles. And even though I really made no money I worked with some pretty cool people. And as I began to just become observant of all the wonderful people God put in my life, I ended up meeting a fellow waitress who was a comedian and she introduced me to her manager, who also repped some big names. That company would become my very first manager, and help launch the early days of my career. And then it happened. I booked a starring role in my first film Ringmaster. Success! So about a month from my “moment of acceptance” of my life as a waitress, I had to quit being a waitress to star in my first movie, and never looked back. I worked with the amazingly funny Tangie Ambrose, Wendy Raquel Robinson, Michael Jai White, and Jamie Pressly. We had a blast in this movie, most of which we did improv.

Here I am with Tangie and Wendy on the red carpet celebrating my very first film Jerry Springer’s Ringmaster. It was a blast to make it, I could never have been more excited than that moment. My parents flew out to see me in this film for the premiere, which was interesting. (After all, it was JERRY SPRINGER!) But nevertheless, it was my beginning. And perhaps if I had not had that “moment of acceptance” I would’ve blocked so many blessings that were literally, right around the corner.

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Meeting the great Willie Gault! #Concussion is a movie you will most definitely be impacted by. #fortheplayers #hollywoodlife #willsmith @wimbrey

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World premiere Concussion. #afifest #willsmith #hollywoodlife having so much fun with crazy @wimbrey Hope we don't get arrested.

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Today spent volunteering building a Dream Court in Long Beach! Such an awesome gift to the kids. While we were installing the court kids came by wanting to join. They serve a large homeless population of children as well. So grateful to be able to #giveback. #wvchange

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Travel while you're young and able. Don't worry about the money just make it work. Experience is far more valuable than money will ever be. But what if you could have both?