Nicole Walker

Nicole Walker (née Mendez; formerly Roberts, Kiriakis and Robbins) is a character on the Days of our Lives soap opera that has been portrayed by Arianne Zuker from 1998 to 2006 and 2008 to present.

Character history
Nicole is one of the two daughters of Paul Mendez and Fay Walker. Nicole has a younger sister named Taylor Raines who she isn't close with but she is very close to her half-brother Brandon Walker (Fay's son with Abe Carver).

Nicole is pursued by Lucas Roberts who has decided that he needs to be married in order to gain custody of his biological son Will Roberts. Although Nicole really wants to be with Eric Brady, she takes an offer from Kate Roberts to marry Lucas for $5 million.

After a cancer scare and briefly rekindling her relationship with Eric, she divorces Lucas and schemes her way into the arms of Victor Kiriakis (much to the dismay of Kate Roberts). Nicole and Victor marry, but the honeymoon period is brief. As it isn't long until Nicole is plotting Victor's death, and her subsequent inheritance of the Kiriakis fortune. She pays Larry Welch to assassinate Victor, this plot fizzles. She then teams up with Jan Spears, this venture is successful; Victor's death is linked with the Salem Stalker killings.

Nicole then turns her pursuit to Victor's grandson, Brady Black. Thinking she has finally found her true love, she is ready to settle down. Nicole is unable to stop her old behavior, when she finds out that Brady's long-time love Chloe Lane is alive, the web of deceit starts once again. When Brady eventually finds out what Nicole has been hiding from him, he ends their relationship. Before Nicole leaves town for Los Angeles in February 2006, she allegedly has a one-night stand with Roman Brady although it was never seen on screen. It was later mentioned on the show that she had met and wanted to marry "some soap actor" a nod to the fact that at the time Arianne Zuker was married to another former actor from Days of our Lives, Kyle Lowder.

In 2008, Nicole returns to Salem claiming to still be married to Victor. However, Nicole found out that she is still married to Trent Robbins at the time, thinking that marriage was annulled. This makes her marriages to both Lucas and Victor invalid. Trent is murdered in September 2008, making Nicole one of the prime suspects. Nicole hires E.J. Wells to represent her in her divorce from Victor. While working together, E.J sometimes used Nicole to get to his wife, Samantha. Later on, after being dumped by Samantha, EJ get comforted in an elevator by Nicole. Then, Nicole finds out, that she's pregnant with EJ's baby.