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Korean-American actress

Bilderback is a Korean adopted through the Holt International Program when she was six months old by an American couple who also have two older sons. She was not given any special cultural enrichment by her family, but does not find that a problem; nor does she have any particular wish to meet her birth mother.

She began working as a professional actress in 1995. Unusually for a non-white, she has avoided being typecast as The Asian Character and usually plays characters originally intended to be white. Her film credits include Bring it On (2000), Fate Totally Worse Than Death (2000), and Courtship of Eddie’s Father (2003); her TV career includes parts in Dawson’s Creek (as Heather Tracy), Dark Angel (as Brin), Clueless (as Nicole) and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (as Janet).
[Last updated: 30 JUN 2004]

References

“Nicole Bilderback.” [Includes portrait]. Available at: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0082169/ [Last visited: 30 June 2004]
Luu, Alex, and Lim, Stanley. “Nicole Bilderback, the Real All-American Girl.” [Includes portrait]. YOLK 2.0, no. 8.3. Also available at: http://www.yolk.com/v083/bilderback1.html [Last visited: 30 June 2004]

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