Nicole Leach

Rochelle grew up in West Orange and Montclair, New Jersey. She attended Montclair High School, and graduated early after 3 years and went on to earn her Linguistic Anthropology degree from Brown University.[1]

Rochelle has appeared in several television shows, usually under the name "Nicole Leach", including the first season of Shining Time Station with Ringo Starr as the granddaughter of the workshop's operator, several seasons of The Babysitters Club videos, and four episodes of The Cosby Show as a friend of the youngest Huxtable child. She also had guest roles on Clarissa Explains It All, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, Third Watch, and Law & Order.

Rochelle has performed on and off-Broadway in such shows as Dangerous Games, Fame on 42nd Street, Miracle Brothers, and a 2004 production of Limonade Tous le Jours starring Alan Alda. In 2003 she played Katherine in Shakespeare in the Park's Henry V. In 2005, she played the title role in the musical Nefertiti in Fort Lauderdale. Rochelle starred in role of the new Josephine Baker in the musical A la recherche de Josephine, produced by Jérôme Savary, in Paris and touring Europe and the US from 2006 to 2010.

Starting in 2010, Rochelle has toured internationally with the French electro-swing group "Ginkgoa" [2] , French musician/singer/songwriter Julien Brunetaud with their blues/jazz group "Nikki & Jules",[3] and been invited to sing with bands across the world from Austria to Germany, Ukraine to Hungary, Argentina, Switzerland to the USA, and is currently releasing her new artist/activist project called "Modern GEAIsha", hip hop fusion music with a message,[4]

In 1995, while still in high school, Rochelle participated in a musical to benefit the fight against HIV/AIDS.[1]

On April 9th 2018, Leach was arrested and charged for disorderly conduct after jumping a barrier during a protest at Montgomery County courthouse in Pennsylvania for the first day of Bill Cosby's sexual assault retrial. Leach, who was topless and body covered with writing that said "Women’s Lives Matter" and the name's of the accusers, had jumped over when Cosby was close to the courthouse's entrance just before 9am ET with security apprehending her afterwards. Leach had planned to attend other trial protests that day but was recommended by authorities not to. Leach said that her intention was to make Cosby uncomfortable and that because she used to look up to him that his actions towards others had "... felt personal to me."[5][6]

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