Hillary Bailey Smith (born May 25, 1957) is an American actress, best known for her daytime soap opera roles as Margo Hughes on ''

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'' and Nora Hanen Buchanan on ''

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''.

Life and career

Smith was born as Hillary Bailey in Boston, Massachusetts. She attended

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and

Sarah Lawrence College Sarah Lawrence College is a private liberal arts college in Yonkers, New York. The college models its approach to education after the Oxford/Cambridge system of one-on-one student-faculty tutorials. Sarah Lawrence scholarship, particularly ...

. At Sarah Lawrence as a senior, she performed in

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and

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productions, including '' The Heidi Chronicles''. She married Philip Webster Smith, III in 1983. She met her husband at age 14 and married him a few years later after the two reconnected at a friend's wedding. They have two children, a daughter, Courtney and a son, Philip. (As an infant, Smith's son played her on-screen son briefly on ''

''.) Smith is best known for her roles in the daytime soap operas. She made her soap debut in 1982, as Kit McCormick on '' The Doctors'' and one year later, taking over the role of Margo Hughes on ''

'', a role she played from 1983 to 1990. After taking

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from acting after the birth in 1988 of her son, Smith returned to daytime television, originating the role of Nora Hanen Buchanan on the ABC soap opera, ''

''. She played Nora from 1992 until the series' cancellation in 2012. She later returned to show in the 2013 The Online Network short-lived reboot. Smith won the

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in 1994 for her performance in ''One Life to Live''. From 1994 to 1995, Smith also has starred as lead in the NBC sitcom '' Something Wilder''. Smith appeared and produced web soap-type series '' Venice: The Series''. As producer, in 2014 she has won Daytime Emmy. In 2014, Smith was the supervising producer for the soap opera

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'', and was nominated for a 2015 Daytime Emmy for Outstanding New Approaches Drama Series. In late January 2017, it was reported by

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and ''

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'' that Smith would reprise her role as Nora on ''

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''.

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, Hillary B. 1957 births Living people 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American actresses Actresses from Massachusetts American stage actresses American television actresses American soap opera actresses Daytime Emmy Award winners Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series winners Pine Manor College alumni Sarah Lawrence College alumni Dana Hall School alumni