Nikki Faber is a principal character on Spin City, portrayed by Connie Britton.
Character[]
Nikki is a smart, sweet and witty woman. She works with accounting for the Winston Administration, despite having aimed to avoid that field, stating she would find it boring. However, her job entails a lot of political maneuvering and networking, which is outside the purview of a regular accounting position, which Nikki enjoys. She works in an almost all-male office, and keeps the guys in check when necessary. Nikki forms a friendship and strong alliance with the other woman in the office, Janelle, and later when Janelle works for the mayor, Nikki and Janelle become friends with Mike's fiery new secretary, Stacey. Generally, Nikki gets along well with everyone, and also forms a close friendship with Carter when he joins the administration. Nikki and Mike have a good friendship from the off and later develop feelings for each other.
Story[]
Nikki was born in Boston, Massachusetts somewhere in the late sixties and relocated to New York at age thirteen. She was selected by Randall sometime after he became the Mayor of New York City. She enjoys her job, but mostly focuses on her personal life, specifically her desire to get married and have children, finding it difficult to meet someone in the city that's not completely insane. Because she's so interested in finding a relationship, Nikki often dates moochers who don't appreciate her, although it usually never lasts long. When Carter is hired, they quickly hit it off and develop a sweet friendship, often teasing each other. Nikki helps Carter with his protest against the ban on gay marriage, where they will demonstrate how easy it is for them to get married in a hetero ceremony despite not being in love. The protest is a success as it generates the media attention Carter hoped for, despite them not going through with the nuptials as it was affecting Nikki emotionally. Despite her willingness to go through with it, he didn't want her to feel bad and also thought them getting to the altar with a priest presiding over a ceremony enough to prove the point.[4] When Carter later dates famous fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi, Nikki gets a chance to model one of Mizrahi's designs, but Mike's damage control of the mayor's failing marriage sees him accidentally knock her over on the runway.[5]
One Sunday when Mike calls everyone in for damage control on a situation, Nikki brings her nephew whom she's sitting, and it inspires her to challenge the guys to take care of a cocktail napkin for 24 hours to prove they can be responsible father's. All of them except Carter fail, with James having been sabotaged by Stuart.[6] When Ashley leaves Mike for a job in D.C., Nikki is the one to reach out to him to try and support him. Mike is hesistant to show emotions, although it's clear he is in pain. When it finally gets to be too much, he seeks out Nikki who comforts him.[7]
Relationships[]

Nikki and Mike are good friends and colleagues from the start. They often banter at the office and Nikki parrys Mike's irreverance deftly, which often irks but secretly impresses him. He also flirts with her on occasion, and she is the one Mike trusts with his emotions if he ever reluctantly shows them, seen when Ashley leaves him. Mike is protective of Nikki, which borders on jealousy when she's dating someone. Although everyone in the office is casually crushing on Mike, Nikki develops real feelings for him at one point, unable to deal with it, and confides in Carter and Stacey about it. She especially dislikes when Mike briefly starts seeing Heidi Klum. When Stacey finally tells an oblivious Mike, he hurries off to be with her, but finds her with a new beau, Arthur. Unaware that Mike knows how Nikki feels and reciprocates, Nikki becomes increasingly serious with Arthur while Mike now watches her jealously from afar. When Mike tries to impress Nikki by donating a kidney to a child, he kisses her while on anaesthesia and she is baffled. She eventually breaks up with Arthur as she's in love with Mike and they finally start a relationship.
Trivia[]
- One of Nikki's grandmothers lives in (and is possibly from) Jacksonville, FL
- Nikki's mother's birth name is Shaughnessy[8]
- BIRTHDAY
- In Season 2, Nikki states that her birthday is in July.[2] However, in Season 3 Stacey mentions that Nikki is a Taurus, which would make her birthday April/May.[9]
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Notes and references[]
- ↑ Grand Illusion — The priest states her full name
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bye, Bye, Birdie
- ↑ The Pope Of Gracie Mansion
- ↑ Grand Illusion
- ↑ The Mayor Who Came To Dinner
- ↑ The Rivals
- ↑ Bye Bye Love
- ↑ Criss Cross
- ↑ It Happened One Night