Nikki Ann Sanderson (born 28 March 1984) is an English actress and former glamour model who is best known for playing Candice Stowe in the television soap opera Coronation Street, Dawn Bellamy in Heartbeat and Maxine Minniver in Hollyoaks. During her time at Coronation Street and since, she has also forged a career as a glamour model and television presenter on programmes such as CD:UK, Junior Eurovision and Ministry of Mayhem. Prior to this, she had appeared in children's drama Children's Ward and in 2004, the hit fitness DVD Coronation Street - Funk fit. Sanderson starred in the 2010 UK tour of The Vagina Monologues.
Sanderson dated her former Coronation Street co-star Danny Young from 2005 to February 2009. In late 2013, Sanderson, along with her Hollyoaks co-star and on-screen boyfriend Jeremy Sheffield, appeared in character as their Hollyoaks characters Maxine and Patrick in a series of government "This is Abuse" adverts, highlighting the issues of domestic violence, following on from the domestic violence storyline their characters previously addressed in the soap opera. In the adverts, first broadcast in November, Patrick reads the private messages on Maxine's mobile phone, he then intimidates her into changing her clothes on the night of a party, insisting that the clothes she is wearing make her look "cheap", Patrick then kisses her and threatens that she not to do anything that would make them look foolish, the advert ends with the on screen graphic "Abuse in relationships isn't always physical".