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Nia Peeples

Name:

Nia Peeples

Other Name:

Virenia Gwendolyn Peeples

Birthplace:

Hollywood, California

Nationality:

American

Birth date:

December 10, 1961

Years Active:

1981-present

Occupation:

Actress
Singer

Character:

Pam Fields

Season(s):

Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Season 4

Nia Peeples is an American R&B and dance music singer and actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Nicole Chapman on Fame. She is also known for her role as Karen Taylor Winterson The Young and the Restless and as Sydney Cooke on Walker, Texas Ranger.

Nia Peeples plays Pam Fields, Emily's mother, on Pretty Little Liars.

CareerEdit

Peeples started her career as part of the performance group The Young Americans.

MusicEdit

In 1988 she hit #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart with "Trouble," which climbed to #35 on the Hot 100. Her most successful pop single is "Street Of Dreams," which hit #12 on the Hot 100 in 1991.

She made a music video in 1986 of "All You Can Dream", directed by Alan Bloom and conceptualised by Keith Williams, for the purposes of promoting the values of UCLA. She appeared in Prince's video for Raspberry Beret.

ActingEdit

Notably, Peeples portrayed performing arts student Nicole Chapman on the hit TV series Fame. In 1987 she was in the movie North Shore as Kiani. She hosted the short-lived American version of Top of the Pops as well as a weeknight dance music program called The Party Machine with Nia Peeples, and portrayed Texas Ranger Sydney Cooke in the CBS hit seriesWalker, Texas Ranger from 1999-2001.

Nia Peeples joined the cast of The Young and the Restless in 2007, playing the role of Karen Taylor, and was released from the role in the spring of 2009. Her last air date was in May 2009.

Peeples has been cast in the 2010 ABC Family TV series Pretty Little Liars, based on the book series by Sara Shepard.

FilmographyEdit