Education
Stuyvesant High School.
Stuyvesant High School.
Nelkin starred as Bonnie Sue Chisholm in four episodes of the Columbia Broadcasting System western miniseries The Chisholms (1979). When the series resumed in 1980, she was replaced by Delta Burke in the role of Bonnie Sue. She became well known for her role in the horror film as Ellie Grimbridge.
Around the same time, Nelkin was scheduled to appear in the film Blade Runner as Mary, a sixth Nexus-6 replicant that escapes from "off-world" and comes to Earth, but budget cuts resulted in her part being cut from the film early in the period of principal photography.
She had done a screen test for the role of Pris in Blade Runner as well, but Daryl Hannah got the part instead. Nelkin"s screen test appears on Disc 4 of the collector"s edition Digital Video Disc set.
Nelkin has made guest appearances in several television series, including CHiPs, The A-Team, Eight Is Enough, 1st & Ten and Hunter. Her best-known television role was on the soap opera Generations (1990) as Christy Russell. as relationship expert Nelkin is a self-styled "relationship expert" and has her own YouTube channel and website.
She wrote a book called You Can’t Afford to Break Up: How an Empty Wallet and a Dirty Mind Can Save Your Relationship.
She is frequently called on by the program Fox & Friends.