Career
His characters in the first three of these films were insecure, stuttering sidekicks to those of the more outgoing Chris Eigeman. Nichols and Eigeman also played minor roles in the independent film The Next Step, released in 1997, of which Nichols was an associate producer. Nichols has also appeared in the films Boiler Room, Congo, The American President, The Big Easy, and Jurassic Park III, as well as episodes of the television series Murder She Wrote, NewsRadio, Chicago Hope, Judging Amy, The Mind of the Married Manitoba and Criminal Minds.
In 2007 Nichols appeared in the film The Air I Breathe.
