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Nixon's first onscreen appearance was as an imposter on To Tell the Truth, where her mother worked.

She began acting at age 12 as the object of a wealthy schoolmate's crush in The Seven Wishes of a Rich Kid, a 1979 ABC Afterschool Special.

She made her feature debut co-starring with Kristy McNichol and Tatum O ' Neal in Little Darlings ( 1980 ).

She made her Broadway debut as Dinah Lord in a 1980 revival of The Philadelphia Story.

Alternating between film, TV and stage, she did projects like the 1982 ABC-movie My Body, My Child, the features Prince of the City ( 1981 ) and I Am the Cheese ( 1983 ), and the 1982 Off-Broadway productions of John Guare's Lydie Breeze.

In 1985, she appeared alongside Jeff Daniels in Lanford Wilson's Lemon Sky at Second Stage Theatre.