Modern Family (2010) Nichols is perhaps best known for his roles in the Whit Stillman films Metropolitan,[1] Barcelona, The Last Days of Disco, and Damsels in Distress.
His characters in the first three of these films were insecure, stuttering sidekicks to those of the more outgoing Chris Eigeman.
Nichols has also appeared in the films Boiler Room, Congo, The American President, The Big Easy, and Jurassic Park III, as well as episodes of the TV series Murder, She Wrote, NewsRadio, Chicago Hope, ER, Man of the People, Judging Amy, The Mind of the Married Man, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, 24, Criminal Minds, The Mentalist, Bones, and Double Rush.
From 2019 to 2021, Nichols was a member of the regular cast in all three seasons of PEN15 on Hulu.
He has been married since 1995 to Margarita de Eguilior, a Spanish woman he met during the production of Barcelona.