On her final year of the Ailey/Fordham BFA Program in Dance, Nixon was cast as Kalimba in the Broadway production of
Hot Feet, the classic storyline of The Red Shoes with a '70s funk facelift, and Kalimba is the ambitious girl at the center of it who can't stop dancing (literally). She was named of the top
"25 to Watch" by Dance Magazine in 2007. Her regional credits, including Alan Johnson's
West Side Story (Anita),
Bayou Legend (Sara),
Pearl (Pearl),
Soul Possessed,
Dreams,
Brothers of the Knight and
The Hot Chocolate Nutcracker. She performed on the European tour of
West Side Story and
Harriet. Nixon has appeared in films
500 Days of Summer and
Top Five. On television, she had secondary roles in the Fox musical series
Glee and NBC's
Smash. In 2015, she began appearing as Dr. Hannah Brody in the ABC medical drama series, ''
Grey's Anatomy. In 2020, she appeared in its spin-off series, Station 19. In October 2020, she began voicing Millie in the web series Helluva Boss'' in all episodes, except the original pilot, which was later reworked in 2025. Nixon is associate director at Debbie Allen Dance Academy. ==Personal life==