| Nicole Walker-DiMera | |||||||||||||||
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| Days of our Lives | |||||||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Arianne Zucker | ||||||||||||||
| Current status | Present; Contract (departing) | ||||||||||||||
| Duration | 1998–2006, 2008–2018, 2019-2024 | ||||||||||||||
| First appearance | February 27, 1998 | ||||||||||||||
| Last appearance | June 2024 | ||||||||||||||
| Created by | Sally Sussman Morina | ||||||||||||||
| Introduced by | Ken Corday and Tom Langan (1998) Ken Corday and Edward J. Scott (2008) | ||||||||||||||
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| Fullname | Nicole Stella Walker -DiMera | ||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Nic | ||||||||||||||
| Alias(es) | Misty Circle Mary Smith Mary Bridget Smith | ||||||||||||||
| Gender | Female | ||||||||||||||
| Born | July 6, 1975[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Age | 45 | ||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Businesswoman Former Journalist Former Secretary Former Campaign manager Editor-in-chief Former Model Former Waitress Former Pornographic actress | ||||||||||||||
| Residence | Eric's Apartment Salem, Illinois | ||||||||||||||
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Nicole Stella Walker-DiMera is a character from the soap opera Days of Our Lives, portrayed by Arianne Zucker since her introduction to the series in 1998. Zucker took a short, two-year break from 2006-08 when she returned to the series again in the same role.
Many of Nicole's story lines have often focused on treachery, death, and love, with the character being portrayed as always in pursuit of finding true love and having the family she never had as a child growing up. The character is the daughter of Fay Walker and Paul Mendez. During her childhood, Nicole was a victim of child sexual abuse at the hands of her father, Paul, who forced her to do pornography in her adolescence under the name Avery Maria Walker". little brother.
The character came to Salem as a small town waitress, but almost immediately started getting involved with the major families that the show revolved around. While once being seen as a scheming gold-digger, Nicole has grown into a woman committed to finding love and being a good mother. She is known for her longstanding feud with her enemy, Sami Brady, her relationships with Eric Brady, Victor Kiriakis, Brady Black and EJ DiMera, and the 2009 Baby Switch story line which featured Nicole having a miscarriage; daughter lying to her husband; and stealing Sami's baby, Sydney.
In March 2017, Zucker made the decision not to renew her contract and to leave the series. That stint ended on October 20, 2017; after a brief return, her final air date was October 22, 2018.
On November 10, 2018 it was announced that Zucker will return to Days full time sometime in the coming months of 2019 along with Xander.
In 2024 , Nicole is the mother of Eric only surviving child.
Ari Zucker was let go from Days Of Our Lives in October of 2023 and her contract expired in January 2024 and chose not to renew her contract due a legal dispute against Corday and Alarr over harassment issues and toxic work environment behaviors.It was confirmed she is leaving before summer 2024 which is June.
Background
Nicole surviving children Holly Fay Jonas and Jude Roman Brady.
Nicole has four children (two are deceased and two surviving)by three different fathers:
- Sydney DiMera I a late daughter with husband EJ DiMera who died of miscarriage on November 24, 2008 when she was at the DiMera mansion but also Sami Brady EJ’s ex-wife was pregnant at the sametime as Nicole both by EJ and the miscarriage led Nicole to steal EJ DiMera and Sami DiMera daughter which was returned in November of 2009 to her parents.
- Daniel DiMera a late son with Husband EJ DiMera who was born/died On October 12, 2012 he was stillborn prior to falling down the stairs during a fight with Jennifer Horton.
- Holly Jonas a surviving daughter with late ex-fiancé Daniel Jonas who born December 22, 2016 (revised to December 22, 2004) she was born via Surrogate by Nicole best friend Chloe Lane carried her during pregnancy but Nicole learned Holly was her daughter after Holly was born and Chloe keep the IVF Surrogacy conception a secret from Holly parents.
- Jude Samuel Brady a surviving son with ex-husband Eric Brady who was born on November 10,2024 during a car accident involving her and Leo Stark and his fake husband Dimitri Von Leuschner during a high speed chase and he was stolen by Melinda Trask and baby stepmother Sloan Petersen to raise as her adopted baby with Eric which she had a miscarried son prior to Nicole son’s birth when the two women were pregnant at Sametime by Eric.
Storylines
Overworked and underpaid waitress Nicole comes to Salem with dreams of becoming a model and meets Eric Brady. Eric convinces his sister Sami Brady to give Nicole a modeling contract landing Nicole on the cover of Bella magazine. Despite her success, Nicole seems to be hiding something. It is eventually revealed that Nicole is being followed by her ex-boyfriend, Jay. As Eric and Nicole fall in love, a jealous Jay threatens to tell Nicole's secrets.
Nicole develops friendships with Sami and Kate Roberts, even planning out Sami's bachelorette party. Kate's son and Sami's ex-boyfriend Lucas Horton starts showering Nicole with gifts despite his mother's disapproval; Lucas wants to use Nicole to get custody of his son Will from Sami.
Meanwhile, Nicole's sister, Taylor Walker comes to Salem and befriends Eric and Lucas uses the relationship to keep Nicole and Eric apart so he can have her for himself. Taylor catches on to Lucas's schemes and skips town while Nicole agrees to marriage in exchange for $5 million leaving Eric devastated and running him out of town.
When Victor Kiriakis takes the money away from her, Nicole decides to help Sami regain custody of Will. Also, a brief cancer scare forces Nicole to realize the error of her ways. She shares a brief reunion with Eric and divorces Lucas. However, Eric helps Nicole open up about her troubled past and being forced into porn as a teenager by her father, Paul Mendez.
Nicole cozies up to Victor by exposing Kate's plot to kill him and also uses his grandson Brady Black in her schemes. Victor and Nicole eventually marry on New Year's Eve in 2002 only for Nicole to fake his death with the help of Jan Spears, leaving Nicole as the wealthy grieving widow who has fallen for her step grandson.
However, Nicole's plans begin to unravel when Victor is discovered alive. Meanwhile, in an effort to keep Brady for herself, Nicole tries to disfigure his presumed dead first love, Chloe Lane during surgery with help from Stan (Dan Wells) and Tony DiMera.
Nicole learns that Stan is actually Sami in disguise and threatens to expose her. However, Sami exposes Nicole's schemes instead and Brady kicks her out of his life believing she was behind Chloe's "death." Nicole later goes into business with Sami and Austin Reed. In 2006, she agrees to move to Los Angeles to manage the newly acquired branch of the company. Before leaving town, Nicole has a one-night stand with Sami's father, Roman Brady.
After her departure, it is mentioned that Nicole had plans to marry "some soap actor." This was presumably a nod to Zucker's marriage to her former Days of Our Lives costar, Kyle Lowder, who played Brady.
Nicole resurfaces in 2008 and announces that she and Victor are still legally married. Nicole hires EJ DiMera to help her with the divorce only for Nicole to discover that she is still married to her first husband, Trent Robbins, making her subsequent marriages to Lucas Horton and Victor invalid. Nicole had married Trent when she was in college but she left him because he was abusive; however, she never filed for divorce. EJ starts using Nicole to make his soon to be ex-wife Sami Brady jealous and after Sami dumps him, EJ and Nicole end up having sex in an elevator. Nicole is a prime suspect when Trent is found dead in September 2008, but she is exonerated.
Nicole later discovers she is pregnant, and knowing she was not supposed to have children, Nicole considers the child to be a "miracle." EJ and Nicole move in together only for her to miscarry. Realizing that EJ loved their baby and not her, Nicole fakes her pregnancy fearing he will leave her. Nicole discovers that EJ is still in love with Sami, so she adopts Mia McCormick's baby with help from Dr. Richard Baker and passes the child off as her own.
To make matters worse, Nicole switches Mia's child with Sami and EJ's baby allowing EJ to raise the child even though Sami planned to keep him from the child. Nicole names the child, Sydney only for her lies to be exposed when the child's father, Chad DiMera tries to sue for custody. Nicole is sent to prison for her crimes and later released with the help of Anna DiMera.
Seeing that Nicole is still attached to Sydney DiMera, EJ arranges for her to be a part of Sydney's life and live in the mansion leading him to propose to her in order for Nicole to be a "mother figure" to EJ's children. Nicole accepts leading her to start falling in love with him again.
On their wedding day, EJ meets Nicole's sister Taylor and it is love at first sight. After weeks of cheating, EJ asks Nicole for a divorce and she is left shattered. Nicole is employed as EJ's secretary and they start working together for EJ to win the election and become Mayor of Salem.
During the election their romantic relationship evolves but Nicole holds back fearing that EJ will end up hurting her again. When he proposes to her in February 2012, Nicole accepts only to find out that EJ had cheated on her once again with Sami. She storms out of the mansion and goes to the Town Square where she meets Daniel Jonas. During their talk Nicole faints and Daniel takes her to the hospital only to find out that Nicole is pregnant.
Nicole worries about her pregnancy ending up in a miscarriage again and wanting to get away from EJ she hides her pregnancy from him with the help of Daniel and Rafe Hernandez. EJ finds out that Nicole is pregnant and Rafe steps in claiming the child is his leading him and Nicole to fabricate this story to keep the baby from EJ.
In May 2012, Nicole stresses over EJ and starts having pains in her stomach but gets to the hospital in time and everything turns out to be fine. Nicole begins a romantic relationship with Daniel but due to his daughter's priorities at the time, he broke it off.
In August 2012, an earthquake hits Salem and Nicole goes into preterm labor but luckily enough Daniel manages to stop the contractions and keep the pregnancy healthy. She then starts a rivalry with Jennifer Horton fearing that Daniel will get back together with Jenn. In October 2012 and at 37 weeks pregnant, Nicole goes to her prenatal visit but her doctor informs her that her baby is dead.
A distraught Nicole grieves her second loss but does not tell Daniel fearing that he will get back together with Jenn seeing there is no baby. That same day Nicole gets into a fight with Jennifer on the stairs of the Town Square and Nicole falls down going into labor. Nicole gives birth to her stillborn son and seeing the opportunity she blames Jennifer in pushing her. A month later the truth comes out and seeing she is left with nothing, she tries to commit suicide but Rafe and Daniel step in just in time to stop her.
Nicole's first love, Eric Brady, returns to Salem as a priest. He offers her a job as his secretary at the church, which Nicole accepts. As the two continue working together, Nicole's old feelings for Eric resurface. Knowing that he is a priest and cannot be with her, Nicole aches about not being with him.
In June 2013, Eric is drugged and seduced by Kristen DiMera. Due to coincidences that happened that night, such as Nicole finding a delirious Eric in his hotel room shortly after Kristen leaves, Eric is led to believe that it was Nicole who raped him. He confronts her about the matter. While Nicole admits her feelings towards him during the confrontation, she repeatedly denies any wrongdoing. Eric does not believe her, concluding that Nicole acted on her feelings.
Dismayed by Eric's false accusation, Nicole does not want to have anything to do with Eric. After Eric is suspended from the priesthood due to the sex scandal, Nicole forgives him, and together with Daniel, they work together to prove Eric's innocence.
Knowing that Eric would deny her help due to her feelings for him, Nicole fabricates a fake romance with Daniel, assuring Eric she is over him. The lie shocks both Daniel and Eric. Daniel is initially reluctant at first, as Nicole had made up the lie before informing him, but he agrees to play along, blindsiding Eric. Since finding out about Nicole's new romance, Eric begins to have dreams about Nicole and is unsure how he feels about her.
As Nicole and Eric begin spending more time together to clear his name, Eric's old feelings for Nicole resurface. This becomes especially apparent after Nicole's photo shoot, when Eric reminisces about an old photo shoot with Nicole during her modeling days with Countess Wilhelmina. Nicole and Eric's relationship becomes more mutual, leaving both of them confused and unsure how to react.
On January 13, 2014, Nicole and Eric are kidnapped by Kristen's potion doctor, as the two have gotten too close to the truth about the night Eric was drugged. The doctor tied them together in the basement of Daniel's apartment complex. He initially was going to wipe their memories with his drugs, but instead opens a gas line in the basement and leaves Nicole and Eric to die, either by asphyxiation or an eventual explosion. It is in this dire situation Eric confesses he loves Nicole. She was engaged to Eric briefly but they broke up and now she is currently engaged to Daniel.
Sadly, on New Year's Eve of 2015, Brady, his stepbrother Eric, Jennifer Horton, and Daniel are involved in a tragic car accident due to Eric driving drunk. The accident leaves Daniel brain dead, and Brady in need of a heart transplant. With Maggie's permission, Daniel is taken off of life support and his heart is donated to Brady. Eric is later sent to prison for causing Daniel's death, leaving Nicole heartbroken.
In 2016, Chloe Lane attempts a second surrogacy for Nicole after a failed first attempt. In a snowstorm with Chloe, Nicole unknowingly delivers her own child conceived through in vitriol fertilization. Chloe tells her to name the baby before losing consciousness. Nicole names the baby girl Holly and later learns the child belongs to her and the late Daniel Jonas. This makes Maggie Horton the baby's paternal grandmother.
Nicole was in a relationship with Deimos Kiriakis and then they were engaged and then she dumped him. In October 2018, it is revealed that Nicole has been living in Nashville Tennessee at Sarah Horton's old apartment with Holly Jonas. When Eric arrives to confess his love for her, she reveals she is married to Xander, who is blackmailing her with a recording that reveals her as Deimos' killer. When Nicole escapes Xander's hold, she travels to a warehouse to meet with Eric; there, she becomes trapped, and is revealed to have died following an explosion.
When she suddenly reappears, she is revealed to be Kristen in a mask and wig, using Nicole's identity to try and seduce Brady into taking her back. She also tries to steal the DiMera family business from under her brother Stefan, which fails when Stefan blocks her from regaining ownership of Nicole's former company. Xander subsequently steals the mask after getting fed up with Kristen, who resorts to posing as her doppelganger until she can get it back. Her plan ultimately backfired after she was exposed at John and Marlena's anniversary party.
In September 2019, Nicole is discovered alive and living in Chicago. It is revealed that she willingly let Kristen DiMera steal her identity to protect Holly. Eric swears to bring them both back home now that Kristen's scheme has unraveled.
On July 14, 2020, Nicole and Eric are married at Brady's Pub.Notable Possessions
- Duke the Bear: Duke is the name of a stuffed bear that Rafe shares with Nicole Walker. It is a symbol of their bond. Rafe imagined Duke talking to him at one point. When Rafe's girlfriend Ava Vitali found out Rafe and Nicole slept together. She decapitated Duke with a pair of scissors in a jealous rage. Ava felt guilty, and that guilt eventually manifested itself in a dream where Ava imagined a life sized Duke attacking her in her bedroom. Duke was voiced by Galen Gerring and the life sized version was portrayed by Chuck Saculla.
Quotes
- (to Daniel, about her and Jennifer almost getting into a fight) "I didn't start this; Little Miss Muffet did."
- (to Daniel, about her and Jennifer almost getting into a fight) "Somebody needs to teach her a lesson!"
- (to EJ) "Yes, yes, sex is amazing with you!"
- (to Daniel, after he declares his love for Jennifer) "Oh, just like you love all your patients?"
- (to EJ, after Sami kisses him) "Wow. You know, lucky for you, EJ, I have some breath spray and some anti-bacterial."
- (to Sami, who Nicole doesn't know is pregnant) "Is it just me, or did you gain weight?"
- (to Kate) "I know you're the same old slut you've always been."
(to Sami, who calls Nicole rude) "Touchy, are we? Or are you just hormonal?"
- (to Arianna, about a Snow Leopard giving birth to cubs) "They're pre-empting me because some cat had kittens?!"
- (to Daniel, after he says that he doesn't love her, even though she was his patient) "Well, you didn't have to fix me!"
- (to Sami, about her relationship with Lucas) "Take it from me, Sami. Lucas is a horn-dog. I mean, when we were married, we had this nasty date, and I-"
- (to Chloe, who asks what she was supposed to do (about Lucas)) "Apparently, not Lucas."
- (to Sami and Chloe, about Lucas) "Why Lucas would want either one of you losers is beyond me."
- (to Sami, when she denies her feelings for EJ) "What are we, 5 years-old here? C'mon Sami, EJ told me everything."
(to EJ, after finding out he cheated on her with Sami) "You honestly expect me to believe that you slept with this woman, even though you detest her, because you were sad?"
- (to Stefano) "Maybe you shouldn't throw around the word "morrrrronic" (in Stefano's accent).
- (to EJ, when he tries reconciling with her) "You had me EJ, heart and soul."
- (to Sami, about the kids) "Oh, get a life Sami. I don't even know which brat I was holding anyway...I don't know if it was EJ's or Lucas's. Good thing you didn't have triplets. Can't tell the fathers without a program."
(to Jennifer, about the choice between Jack and Daniel) "I'm sorry, but your track record proves that you're not very good at making decisive choices." (to Jennifer, about her relationship with EJ) "At least I have a man to go home to. You managed to chase two off."
- (to Jennifer, about Daniel and Jack's rejections) "I'm not surprised. I mean, I see how you are in your professional life; very bland, and boring. I can only imagine how it is behind those closed doors."
- (to EJ) "What kind of Brit are you? I thought you'd have a room full of tea, or something'."
References
- ↑ According to the April 8, 2016 episode.
