Lindsay Hartley

Lindsay Hartley is an American actress who became known for several long-running soap opera characters. Born in Palm Springs, California, she began singing at 11, won a national pre-teen talent title at the Young Miss America Beauty Pageant, and at 18 earned a part in a Broadway staging of Grease. Her daytime breakthrough came in 1999, when she was cast as Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald on the NBC serial Passions, a role that brought a 2000 nomination for Outstanding Female Newcomer at the Soap Opera Digest Awards. She went on to play Arianna Hernandez on Days of Our Lives, appearing from 2009 until the character was written out in 2010, and Cara Castillo on All My Children, a part she started in 2010 and returned to for the revived version in 2013. Other television work included Mad Harriet during Smallville's final season and filling in as Sam McCall on General Hospital on three later occasions. She has acted in Lifetime made-for-television movies.