Nikki Reed

Nicole Houston Reed
Biographical Information
Gender:	Female
Birthplace:	West Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Birthdate:	May 17, 1988
Appearances
Portrays:	Betsy Ross
Status:	Starring
First appeared:	"I, Witness"
Last appeared:	"Ragnarok"

Nicole Houston Reed, better known as Nikki, is an American actress that plays Betsy Ross on the 3rd season of Sleepy Hollow. Her first movie was Thirteen in 2003 and she was in the Twilight series.

History

Reed was born in West Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Cheryl Houston, a beautician, and Seth Reed, a set designer. She has an older brother, Nathan August Reed, and a younger half-brother Joey Reed. Reed has said in numerous interviews that her early home life was "complicated". Her parents divorced when Reed was two, and she was raised by her mother. Her mother is of Cherokee and Italian descent. Her father is Jewish. Reed was raised without religion and has identified as Jewish. She grew up around some Jewish practices, as her brother had a Bar Mitzvah. In 2002, when Reed was 14 years old, she moved out of her mother's house and began living on her own, mainly in apartments in the Los Angeles area. After Thirteen's success, Reed returned to Alexander Hamilton High School in Los Angeles, but dropped out again after a year. She said that "mothers who were sneaking into the school at lunchtime to confront and harass her about the film" were the reason for her departure. She earned a high school diploma through homeschooling. She is a vegetarian.

Appearances

Season Three

"I, Witness"

"Whispers in the Dark"

"Blood and Fear"

"The Sisters Mills"

"Dead Men Tell No Tales"

"This Red Lady from Caribee"

"The Art of War"

"Novus Ordo Seclorum"

"One Life"

"Incident At Stone Manor"

"Kindred Spirits"

"Sins of the Father"

"Dark Mirror"

"Into the Wild"

"Incommunicado"

"Dawn's Early Light"

"Delaware"

"Ragnarok"