Nicole DeHuff was born on 6 January 1975 in Oklahoma. She began her
acting studies at the prestigious Carnegie Mellon Acting Conservatory.
Her first screen role was in the comedy hit
Meet the Parents (2000), in which she
co-starred with
Robert De Niro and
Ben Stiller. Her character (Deborah Byrnes) was
the sister whose wedding caused chaos for her family. She subsequently
appeared in a guest capacity in such television programs as
CSI: Miami (2002),
Monk (2002) and
The Practice (1997). Nicole married in 2000 to
Ari Palitz, but had no
children. She passed away from pneumonia on 16 February 2005 in Los
Angeles. She was 30 years old.