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NIKI STEVENS

Nikki Stephens as played by Kate French in Showtime's THE L WORD

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Played by
:
Kate French

Occupation: Actress

Family: Never mentioned.

She is often seen with a big entourage.

Personality type: Fun-loving, rebellious, naive

L word(s) that best describes [character]: Like a 'puppy' (by Tina)
Signature look: Glam, aviator sunglasses Niki......Lindsay

Endearing trait(s): Her feisty attitude and rebellion and her youthful girly charm
Annoying trait(s): Irresponsible, tardy, whiny

Strengths: Determination

Hangups: Can be very immature and naive. Can exhibit Diva-like behaviour. Showed up late to the set of Lez Girls which caused problems for the production. According to Kate French, at one point, Niki was strongly considering outing herself as a lesbian to the public but when she took her career into consideration, decided it was best that she remain in the closet. Is very easily persuaded by her management and agent to maintain a heterosexual public image.




POSSIBLE MOTIVES FOR
MURDERING
JENNY SCHECTER
Possible motive: To get back at Jenny
Cause: Ilene Chaiken's quill.
Possible motive:She is in love with Shane and had to get rid of Jenny.
Cause: Bad crack.
Possible motive: Niki used to date Jenny, cheated with Shane, who is now with Jenny. Shane and Niki still have have sex and an obvious attraction, while shane is still with Jenny. Jenny finds out...In the final episode they find her mysteriously, and she was coming to talk to Jenny about controlling Shane, whom she wants to be with.
Cause: Jenny does want to let Shane go, so it becomes physical, Jenny endsus dead in the pool. When Alice comes out to find Jenny, Nike hides. The cops discover her later.
Possible motive: Jenny outs her in a magazine article and she loses a lucrative movie deal.
Cause: Being previously close to Jenny, Niki knew she had a phobia of pink cartoon characters, so she enlists all of her deadbeat friends to dress up in Plushy Pink Panther costumes and prance in uniform steps around the pool, molting a little fur and raising a jazzy eyebrow here and there. With no escape evident, Jenny senses a literary opportunity, grabs her laptop from the side of the pool and begins to write about Jerry's experience of the Puce Pool Panthers. Niki meanwhile had remotely accessed Jenny's laptop and senses her plan might not be working, so she hops out of the bushes and shoots her. Dancing like extras from The Kids From Fame, the Panthers disappear with Niki, consoling her that the Pink Panther idea wasn't that ****, it's just that the gun was probably more effective.
Possible motive: She wants to get back at Jenny.
Cause: Jenny
calling her over for a night of rough revenge sex, only to tell her she's a spoiled, selfish brat.
Possible Bowel motive: Season six is going to be ******.
Cause: IC
Possible motive: Niki only wanted to baptize her : (
Cause: Niki believes in God and the EARTH!
Possible motive: Jenny raged at her for seducing Shane, pushed her, screamed, cried, threatened to ruin her acting career with the illicit videotape that she someone caged a copy of.
Cause: Pushed Jenny back; Jenny falls, hits her head on the table corner. Covers it up for her career.

ROMANTICALLY LINKED TO...
Jenny Schecter
Jenny Schecter
How/where they meet: Lez Girls
About the relationship:

OTHER "LINKS" FROM THE CHART:

  • Shane McCutcheon (she ended up having sex with Niki on a balcony and Jenny discovered the two of them together)


CHARACTER BACK STORY
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SEXUAL HERSTORY:
  • Had 2 girlfriends before Jenny. One of them, Jimmy, she described as being a boi.
  • Has said that she tends to always be attracted to older women.
  • Considers f***ing ( sleeping) around 'just f***king around' and not a big deal as she believes one 'can still be loyal to someone in [their] heart'
  • Told Shane on the Pink Ride that people in her circle of friends often have casual sexual relationships with eachother
  • Slept with Greg, her male co-star from Lez Girls when she was with Jenny but told Jenny that it had 'meant nothing' to her and that she had been drunk at the time and was feeling a lot of pressure to appear straight as she is considered a heterosexual sex symbol in the film industry.
  • Began a sexual relationship on the set of Lez Girls (in which she played the lead role of 'Jesse'), with the director and writer of the film, Jenny Schecter.
  • When she was angry that Jenny had not been returning her calls, she did not attend the Lez Girls wrap party and instead stayed at a bar just up the street. Shane was also at the bar. They started talking and Niki tells Shane that she is sick of having to perform 'like some trained monkey' and they both said cheers to "Not giving a ****". Eventually one thing lead to another and they ended up having sex on a guard rail with Shane performing oral sex on Niki. While in the act, Jenny, who had been looking for Niki since she noticed that Niki had not been at the Wrap Party for Lez Girls, found them and was shocked. Both Niki and Shane try to apoligise and explain themselves but Jenny ignored them and her final words to them were "This the ultimate betrayal..you've broken my heart", however, it is not entirely clear to whom the words were directed at.
  • Shane cheated on Jenny with Niki in episode 607.

SEASON ONE HIGHLIGHTS:
  • Did not appear
SEASON TWO HIGHLIGHTS:
  • Did not appear
SEASON THREE HIGHLIGHTS:
  • Did not appear
    Did
SEASON FOUR HIGHLIGHTS:
  • Did not appear
    S
SEASON FIVE HIGHLIGHTS:
  • Won the lead role of Jesse for Jenny Schecter's movie 'Lez Girls'.
  • Was outed by Alice during Alice's gig as a talk-show co-host.
  • Being Jazz handed by Jenny.

CHARACTER BEST

LINES


  • "Oh my God! Poor Tiffy!"


  • "Jenny, it's a purple penis!"
  • '"Tina, it's not like we're gonna be having sex on the side of the road"
  • "If you really wanna win an Oscar, you have to play ugly, retarded or a lesbian"


HOTTEST/BEST SCENES

  • Turkish Oil Wrestling at SheBar.
  • Closet hook-up with Jenny
  • The PP scene in the tent, episode 510.
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