Denise Nickerson (1 April1959) is an American actress and former child star who is best known as Violet Beauregarde, the gum-chewing pre-teen from the 1971 movie, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. ... 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Violet Beauregarde is a character from the Roald Dahl novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and its subsequent films, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. ... Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is a 1971 musical film based on the 1964 childrens book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Welsh author Roald Dahl. ...
In the 1971 movie adaption, Violet was portrayed as a pre-teen girl with long brown hair and wearing a dark blue dress, living in Miles City, Montana.
She was portrayed by former Dark Shadows child actress DeniseNickerson.
Ironically, DeniseNickerson and Julie Dawn Cole, who played Violet and Veruca respectively, were good friends in real life and both had crushes on Peter Ostrum who played Charlie.