Lydia Nicole

Acting

Lydia Nicole

Born 1959-12-09 · New York City, New York

Lydia Nicole is a veteran actress, writer, and producer best known for her work in "Stand and Deliver," "A Rose Grows in Spanish Harlem," and "Making The Five Heartbeats." A pioneer in creating content for and about underrepresented communities, she also hosts the empowering podcast Acting Smarter Now, where she champions the business and mindset tools actors need to thrive.

Acting credits

Indecent Proposal poster
6.4

John Gage offers a down-on-his-luck yuppie husband $1 million for the opportunity to spend the night with the man's wife.

Indecent Proposal

1993

Stand and Deliver poster
7.8

Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top algebra and calculus students.

Stand and Deliver

1988

Max Dugan Returns poster
6.6

An English teacher and struggling single mother has her life disrupted when the father who abandoned her as a child comes back into her life.

Max Dugan Returns

1983

Shattered Vows poster
5.1

At the age of 16 Mary becomes a nun. But she never gets used to the strict rules of her new life and when she falls in love with Father Tim, she wants to withdraw her vow.

Shattered Vows

1984

Stranger by Night poster
4.3

Detective Bobby Corcoran and his partner, Detective Larson, are on the hunt for a vicious serial killer in this tense police thriller. As the murderous villain stalks the city streets leaving carnage in his wake, Corcoran begins to experience blackouts and sudden fits of anger. As the detectives pursue the case, they uncover evidence suggesting that one of them may be responsible for the mysterious deaths.

Stranger by Night

1994

Sister Margaret and the Saturday Night Ladies poster
9.0

A catholic nun tries hard to protect and integrate in society a number of young women with a past in reform schools or even prisons. Lack of funds, troublemakers in the group, outside incomprehension for her aim make her task hard, but eventually she achieves due to her faith in God, and the human person.

Sister Margaret and the Saturday Night Ladies

1987

Honeyboy poster
10.0

Rico 'Honeyboy' Ramirez is a Puerto Rican from the South Bronx who finds fame and fortune as a middleweight boxer. But he soon learns that it's not all it's cracked up to be when he loses sight of his goals. He becomes romantically involved with his attractive publicist, and then he has to prove himself in the ring after learning that his biggest victory was rigged by his shady, mob-connected, promoters.

Honeyboy

1982

Father of Hell Town poster
NR

In this pilot to the short-lived "Hell Town," Robert Blake plays a scrappy, ex-convict-turned-ghetto priest in an impoverished inner-city parish.

Father of Hell Town

1985

10 Attitudes poster
4.7

A Jewish man discovers his boyfriend of 10 years has been cheating on him, and decides to embark on a dating spree.

10 Attitudes

2001

Behind the camera