Born at Andrew's Air Force Base in Maryland. His father is a retired USAF Intelligence Officer, and his mother teaches art at a private school. They divorced when he was 5. He has an older brother and five younger half-siblings.Nicholas played baseball like most kids but was always the entertainer on the team. At age 10 he discovered being an actor could be a real job after watching the film Rebel Without a Cause (1955) along side his Grandma 'Betty', who just so happened to grow up in the same town of 'James Dean (1)' in Fairmount, IN. She would tell Nicholas stories of watching 'Jimmy' act in plays and riding his Indian motorcycle through town. Nicholas was encouraged that if a kid from a small town could make his dreams a reality, so could he.At age 12 Nicholas was admitted to The Governor's (Magnet) School for the Arts, in Norfolk, VA. Where he spent his high school time studying the World of Theater and performance. He made his professional Theater debut with The Virginia Stage Company in the musical Peter Pan at 15. He went on to receive a B.A. in Theater from George Mason University.Nicholas made his first Television appearance on USA's Burn Notice (2007) which was soon followed by a recurring role playing the sidekick 'Stanzi Palmer' opposite 'Scott Cohen' on Necessary Roughness (2011), then joined USA again for a small role on Graceland (2013). His Network debut occurred with _"MacGyver"(2016)_.His big break came after being cast by Michael Bay as the "Motel Clerk" opposite Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, and Tony Shalhoub in the dark comedy Pain & Gain (2013). This was soon followed by landing the lead role in the feature-film Power of the Air (2018) opposite Patty Duke, her last cinematic role before her untimely death.In 2016 Nicholas began work on his first Documentary A Horse of a Different Color (2018).