She is also the longest tenured actress on the show because as of 2024, Melody has played the role of Nikki for 45 years.

On FebruThe Young and the Restless featured a stand-alone episode to honor Scott's 40-year history with the serial.

She was a celebrity guest on The $25,000 Pyramid for a week in June 1985. Scott has said, 'It's a miracle for an actor to have a job last 35 years. Over time, her character reformed and became an important part of Genoa City society, as she married Victor Newman ( Eric Braeden). She was a replacement for the previous Nikki, who had lasted six months. In 1979, at the age of 23, she left The Waltons to take over the role of Nikki Reed, a poor girl from the wrong side of the tracks, on the daytime serial The Young and the Restless, choosing the part over a sitcom pilot that in the end was not picked up. After parts in television and movies in the mid-1970s (most notably in John Wayne's final film, The Shootist, in 1976, in which she becomes the last actress to exchange lines with Wayne), she was offered parts on nighttime series such as, The Rockford Files, Charlie's Angels, and a recurring role on The Waltons. Her first film credit was as a child actress in the 1964 Alfred Hitchcock movie Marnie. Scott was born Melody Ann Thomas in Los Angeles. Melody Thomas Scott (born Melody Ann Thomas, April 18, 1956) is an American actress best known for playing Nikki Newman on the soap opera The Young and the Restless.

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