Dance Mom Speaks! How ‘Hacks’ Recruited Julianne Nicholson To Play A Kooky Influencer This Season. Lynette Rice. Fri, June 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM UTC. 4 min read.

Affectionately named Dance Mom, Nicholson’s character is recruited by Jimmy (Paul W. Downs) and Kayla (Megan Stalter) to perform on Deborah’s (Jean Smart) fledgling late-night show.

Veteran actress Julianne Nicholson has been giving “Performance” for decades. The fact that she was recognized with IndieWire’s Performance Honor on June 5 feels like an overdue given. With her ...

During her acceptance speech for IndieWire's Performance Award, Julianne Nicholson talked about her "unorthodox" career playing the underdogs.

Ahead, “Paradise” creator Dan Fogelman explains why Julianne Nicholson, this season’s IndieWire Honors Performance Award winner, was so worth the wait (and the white lies) it took to get her ...

Ahead, “Paradise” creator Dan Fogelman explains why Julianne Nicholson, this season’s IndieWire Honors Performance Award winner, was so worth the wait (and the white lies) it took to get her ...

Paul W. Downs, Julianne Nicholson, and Megan Stalter in ‘Hacks’Courtesy of Jake Giles Netter / Max Capshaw’s husband Steven Spielberg brought Nicholson into her first TV series, DreamWorks ...

Julianne Nicholson Loved Going “Face Down, Ass Up” as Dance Mom on Hacks “I never get a chance to do anything funny,” says the Mare of Easttown Emmy winner. That changed in a big way on ...

Julianne Nicholson: They had written this part and had me in mind for it. They asked my agent to set up a Zoom so they could tell me about who she was and what her arc is, and I was all in.