Melody Thomas Scott has been charming daytime audiences as the lovable Nikki Reed Newman since 1979. Now, the award-winning actress is being honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The fan favorite actress was announced to be getting a star by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce today, with the star being unveiled in 2026.
Scott is celebrating 46 years in daytime and is half of the supercouple pairing with Victor Newman portrayed by award winner Eric Braeden.
Scott’s professional career began in 1964 when she played a young Marnie in the Alfred Hitchcock film, Marnie. She made her television debut a year later in 1965 as Samantha in the series Wagon Train. Scott then made appearances on Ironside, Secrets, Code R, Fish, The Waltons, Charlie’s Angels, Makin’ It, Blly, and The Rockford Files before joining The Young and the Restless in 1979.
Scott married her husband, award winning television producer Edward ‘Ed’ Scott in 1985. The couple met on the set of The Young and the Restless, where he worked on and off until his retirement on June 4 of this year.
In 2024, the duo were awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Daytime Emmys where the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences recognized them for their decades of work on The Young and the Restless and outstanding contributions to the daytime drama genre.
Scott’s co-star Braeden received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame back in 2007.
In 2020 Scott released a memoir Always Young and Restless: My life on and off America’s #1 Daytime Drama.
The book is described as: The renowned actress behind the character Nikki Newman of The Young and the Restless tells all in this scintillating memoir, divulging the insider details of her dramatic life and sixty-year career.
Melody Thomas Scott admits she is nothing like her Young and the Restless role, who has seen it all in her forty-year tenure on America’s highest-rated daytime serial. But the high drama, angst, and catastrophes aren’t confined to her character’s plotlines. In this captivating memoir, Melody reveals behind-the-scenes tales of her own riveting journey to stardom.
As Nikki went from impoverished stripper to resourceful, vivacious heroine—with missteps as gripping as her triumphs—Melody became a household name, enthralling global audiences. Her road to stardom was also her road to personal freedom, marked by an escape fit for cinema. In Always Young and Restless, Melody tells of her troubled, untraditional upbringing for the first time.
Learn how she suffered at home with her grandmother, a compulsive hoarder, whose cruelty as her guardian is shockingly extreme, and endured abuse at the hands of industry men; what it was like to act in feature films with Alfred Hitchcock, John Wayne, and Clint Eastwood; and how she took control of her life and career in a daring getaway move. And of course, Melody divulges juicy on-and-off-set details of what it’s like to be one half of the show’s most successful supercouple, “Niktor.” In witty, warm prose, meet the shining, persevering heart of an American icon—and prepare to be moved by a life story fit for a soap opera star.
