Nicole Walker

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

Character's background
Nicole is one of the two daughters of Paul Mendez and Fay Walker. She first appeared in Salem in February 1998.

Nicole had a traumatic puberty, being forced by her father to appear, while underaged, in a pornographic film. She later tried to put her past behind her and began a successful modeling career. Nicole was romanced by Eric Brady and the two quickly became engaged. She was simultaneously pursued by the wealthy Lucas Roberts, who decided that he needed to be married in order to gain custody of his biological son Will Roberts. Although Nicole was in love with with Eric, she took an offer from Kate Roberts to marry Lucas for $5 million as she was hungry for wealth and power.

After a cancer scare and a brief rekindling of her relationship with Eric, she divorced Lucas and schemed her way into the arms of Victor Kiriakis (much to the dismay of Kate Roberts). Nicole and Victor married, but the honeymoon period was brief. It wasn't long before Nicole plotted Victor's death, and her subsequent inheritance of the Kiriakis fortune. She paid Larry Welch to assassinate Victor, but it ended up not happening. She then teamed up with Jan Spears, and Victor's death was linked with the Salem Stalker killings.

Nicole then turned her pursuit to Victor's grandson, Brady Black. Thinking she had finally found her true love, she was ready to settle down. But Nicole was unable to stop her manipulative and deceptive behavior and when she found out that Brady's long-time love Chloe Lane was still alive, the web of deceit started once again. When Brady eventually found out what Nicole had been hiding from him, he ended their relationship. Before Nicole left town for Los Angeles in February 2006, she allegedly had 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.

Return
In 2008, Nicole returned to Salem claiming to still be married to Victor. However, Nicole found out that she was still married to her first husband,Trent Robbins. She had thought that their marriage had been annulled; as a consequence, her marriages to both Lucas and Victor were invalid. Nicole hired E.J. Wells to represent her in her divorce from Victor. When Trent was murdered in September 2008, Nicole became a prime suspect. While working together, E.J. sometimes used Nicole to make Sami jealous. After being dumped by Sami, E.J. and Nicole had sex in an elevator (during which time he called out "Sami"). Soon after the elevator romp, Nicole discovered she was pregnant. Sadly, Nicole miscarried their daughter, but didn't tell E.J. about it, and pretended she was still pregnant. In January, E.J. proposed to Nicole.

In January 2009 Sami gave birth to her and EJ´s second child together, a baby girl, but Nicole who was angry at Sami because she was pregnant with EJ's baby and Nicole was not, switched EJ and Sami's baby with the baby she was going to adopt from a teenage girl named Mia.

Nicole is dismayed to overhear EJ on the phone with Roman, who reveals that Sami is coming home.