Taylor Nichols

Taylor Nichols is an American actor whose career is closely associated with the films of Whit Stillman. Born in East Lansing on March 3, 1959, he took major roles in Stillman's Metropolitan (1990) and Barcelona (1994), and also appeared in The Last Days of Disco and Damsels in Distress. In the first three of those pictures he played insecure, stuttering characters alongside the more outgoing Chris Eigeman. He had a minor part in the independent film The Next Step (1997) and was an associate producer on it. Nichols's other film credits include Boiler Room (2000), The American President (1995), Jurassic Park III (2001), The Air I Breathe (2007), and Chappaquiddick (2018). On television he was a regular cast member on Modern Family and appeared in all three seasons of PEN15 from 2019 to 2021, with guest roles in series such as ER, 24, Criminal Minds, The Mentalist, and Bones.