Hillary B. Smith

Hillary B. Smith is an American actress whose career has centered on daytime soap operas. Born in Boston, she studied at Sarah Lawrence College, where she took part in Broadway and off Broadway shows, among them The Heidi Chronicles. Her first soap role came in 1982, as Kit McCormick on The Doctors, and in 1983 she took over as Margo Hughes on As the World Turns, a part she kept until 1989. She originated Nora Gannon Buchanan on One Life to Live in 1992 and stayed with the ABC serial until it was canceled in 2012, returning for its short-lived 2013 reboot. That role won her a Daytime Emmy in 1994 for lead actress in a drama series. She also appeared on the NBC sitcom Something Wilder from 1994 to 1995 and produced the web soap Venice: The Series, winning a 2014 Daytime Emmy as a producer, and was a supervising producer on Beacon Hill.