Stephen: (on his Christmas tradition) We celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve because my wife’s mom is Swedish and that’s the Swedish way. We also have Christmas Day, so we have two Christmases. We put the stockings up on the hearth, and the kids open the stockings on Christmas morning.
Stephen (on returning to Days Of Our Lives): The only odd thing was getting acclimated to wearing the patch again. I had forgotten how weird it was to be walking around and feeling like I exist with half a face.
Stephen: (on designing his own eye patch) The first time around on Days they had given me the drug-store kind with the elastic band. I wanted something cooler. I found a leather shop on Hollywood Boulevard, gave them a design and said, ‘Please do this in leather’. After that, the costume department duplicated that original when ever I needed another.
Stephen’s first acting job was in a musical called Take Me Along.
Stephen often gets mistaken for Brad Pitt.
Stephen helped Mary Beth Evans set up her pie selling business. Filming her while making a pie, he was the sound guy, grip, gaffer and cameraman, and edited and put the music to it.
Owns his own Santa Claus suit, and traditionally played Santa in a scene on Days of Our Lives. Additionally, he will occasionally play Santa at fan events where he loves to read the story “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.”
Wore a green contact lens in his left eye during a 1989 storyline where Steve temporarily had a glass eye. Nichols chose to do this to make the eye look more artificial.
Learned sign language for an 1988 storyline where Kayla became deaf. As part of the story, he learned to sign the lyrics to the Bette Midler song “The Rose.”
Was the voice of the a recent IKEA television ad campaign.
Is a fan of the blues, and plays blues harmonica and the guitar.
During part of his tenure as Steve Johnson, Nichols had the second-highest “Q” rating (a measure of familiarity and appeal) on television, following Bill Cosby.
Is the patch Steven Johnson needs really necessary? No. It became an urban myth during the time Nichols played Steve Johnson that his eye-patch was real, or that it had affected his vision. In actuality, Nichols saw an eye doctor regularly to be sure the patch did no damage to his eyes.
His production company, VanAaron Productions is named for his elder daughter Vanessa and his son Aaron.
Has three children: Vanessa and Aaron from his second marriage, and Dylan with current wife Lisa.
Hair: Blonde
Height: 6’ (in his boots)
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