Nico Blake (also Bradley) is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, played by Persephone Swales-Dawson.

Nico is the daughter and niece of established twins characters Dodger Savage (Danny Mac) and Sienna Blake (Anna Passey), the adoptive daughter of Sienna's boyfriend Ben Bradley (Ben Richards), and the granddaughter of Sienna and Dodger's parents Patrick Blake (Jeremy Sheffield) and Anna Blake (Saskia Wickham) and the niece of their half-brother Will Savage (James Atherton) and their half-sisters Liberty Savage (Abi Phillips/Jessamy Stoddart) and Minnie Minniver, and a half-sister and cousin of Dodger's daughter Myra-Pocahontas Savage-McQueen.

Nico's prominent storylines include: a fraught relationship with Sienna and Patrick; kidney failure from the "End of the Line" train crash; discovering that Dodger is actually her biological father; a relationship with Dylan Jenkins (James Fletcher); accidentally killing Ben's daughter, Carly Bradley (Sophie Wise) with a paperweight; her crush on Jason Roscoe (Alfie Browne-Sykes) and stalking his girlfriend Holly Cunningham (Amanda Clapham); coldly murdering Patrick, who is terminally ill, by smothering him; attempting to murder Theresa McQueen (Jorgie Porter) for her kidney; pushing Will off the hospital roof; stabbing Sienna; suffering a heart attack when she requires another kidney transplant; murdering Dylan's father Trevor Royle (Greg Wood) by stabbing him on his wedding day to Grace Black (Tamara Wall); bullying cancer patient Jade Albright (Kassius Nelson) with her friend Peri Lomax (Ruby O'Donnell), whom she later develops an unhealthy obsession with and holds hostage.

In 2020, Nico made several appearances as a hallucination to Liberty Savage (Jessamy Stoddart), who starts to suffer from postnatal depression after giving birth to baby Faith.

Dodger told Nico that he and Sienna were separated when they were young, and they didn't recognize that he ends up in pregnant his own twin sister.

When Will regains conscious he tells the police she pushed him, but before he can make a formal statement he is murdered by the Gloved Hand Killer.

But then Dylan tells her the reason he took the top was because he was a cross-dresser, Nico runs to hospital, but because Dr. S'avage alerted social services to what she did, she is taken into care.

Two weeks later Nico finally tells Maxine Minniver (Nikki Sanderson) the truth about Carly's death.

Nico then realizes that a mystery culprit was tormenting Dylan in his final days and presumes that it is Kyle Bigsby (Mitchell Hunt) so she punches him.

Nico then locks Sienna in her room and starts a fire in the flat in order to make Ben see how much she means to him.

His actions cause her to develop a crush on him, and when she sees his evidence board about the Gloved Hand Killers victims while returning his wallet, she decides to help.

Nico's crush on Jason grows stronger and this leads to her setting up his girlfriend, Holly, in order to spend time alone with him.

Nico then finds a bunch of flowers in her locker identical to the ones she saw Jason buying earlier, leading her to believe that he feels the same way, unaware they're actually from Alfie.

In January 2016, Nico is shocked when she discovers that Patrick is planning on framing Maxine for his murder and agrees to help.

Nico leaves Sienna to die but she is found by Grace Black (Tamara Wall) and Trevor and is taken to hospital and makes a full recovery.

Angry that Trevor almost ripped her family apart, she unexpectedly turns up at the church to give him a good luck hug before stabbing him in the chest.

Ben finds out that Nico is responsible for killing Trevor and confesses to the crime to protect his stepdaughter unaware of her other murders.

Nico returns a few weeks later and it is revealed that she is working with the police to send Maxine to prison for Patrick's murder, much to Sienna's shock.

When Tom becomes close with his foster sister Jade Albright (Kassius Nelson), Peri becomes jealous and starts bullying her, alongside Nico.

In a special Point of view week of episodes focusing entirely on Patrick's murder investigation, Peri discovers that Nico poisoned Tom.

Maxine and Warren, who now know that Nico is Patrick's real killer, convince Sienna to tell the police the truth.

She had been working with the police, including Ben's son Josh Bradley (Rupert Hill) to catch Nico.

Daniel Kilkelly from Digital Spy reported that Nico arrives in Hollyoaks and meets Dodger Savage (Danny Mac).

His scams include paying Nico's adoptive mother Denise (Janet Bamford) to trick Sienna into believing someone else is her daughter.

It also mentions that although Nico has a tendency to push people away, this is down to a fear of rejection and in reality she just wants "to be loved and to be a part of a real family" and that she is "looking for a place in the world.

[11] On 5 August 2014, it was announced that Nico would begin searching for her true father after deciding that he would be a better carer to live with due to Sienna's latest malicious act.

However, it was hinted that Nico's search could end in peril as she believes Sienna's lies about her father being called Ben Baxter and agrees to meet up with a man bearing that name.

A spokesperson told Digital Spy today: "Sienna and Dodger were estranged as children and each did not discover they had a twin until adulthood.

In an interview with Danny Mac, conducted at the Inside Soap Awards 2014, Daniel Kilkelly noted how some fans loved the twist with Dodger being Nico's father, whereas others hated it.

[21] In an interview with Digital Spy, Anna Passey commented that Persephone Swales-Dawson was "fabulous", and "believable as Sienna's daughter".