Hillary Bailey Smith (born May , ) is an American actress, best known
for her daytime soap opera roles as Margo Hughes on As the World Turns
and Nora Hanen Buchanan on One Life to Live.Smith was born as Hillary
Bailey in Boston, Massachusetts. She attended Dana Hall School, Pine
Manor College and Sarah Lawrence College. At Sarah Lawrence as a
senior, she performed in off Broadway and Broadway productions,
including The Heidi Chronicles. She married Philip Webster Smith, III
in . She met her husband at age 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 As the World
Turns.)Smith is best known for her roles in the daytime soap operas.
She made her soap debut in , as Kit McCormick on The Doctors and one
year later, taking over the role of Margo Hughes on As the World
Turns, a role she played from to .After taking maternity leave from
acting after the birth in of her son, Smith returned to daytime
television, originating the role of Llanview District Attorney Nora
Hanen Buchanan on ABC soap opera One Life to Live. Character she has
played from until the series' cancelation in . She later returned to
show in the The Online Network short-lived continue. Smith won the
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in ,
for her performance in One Life to Live. From to , Smith also has
starred as lead in the NBC sitcom Something Wilder.
for her daytime soap opera roles as Margo Hughes on As the World Turns
and Nora Hanen Buchanan on One Life to Live.Smith was born as Hillary
Bailey in Boston, Massachusetts. She attended Dana Hall School, Pine
Manor College and Sarah Lawrence College. At Sarah Lawrence as a
senior, she performed in off Broadway and Broadway productions,
including The Heidi Chronicles. She married Philip Webster Smith, III
in . She met her husband at age 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 As the World
Turns.)Smith is best known for her roles in the daytime soap operas.
She made her soap debut in , as Kit McCormick on The Doctors and one
year later, taking over the role of Margo Hughes on As the World
Turns, a role she played from to .After taking maternity leave from
acting after the birth in of her son, Smith returned to daytime
television, originating the role of Llanview District Attorney Nora
Hanen Buchanan on ABC soap opera One Life to Live. Character she has
played from until the series' cancelation in . She later returned to
show in the The Online Network short-lived continue. Smith won the
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in ,
for her performance in One Life to Live. From to , Smith also has
starred as lead in the NBC sitcom Something Wilder.
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