One Life to Live
If The Conduit Can Do It
Tuesday 12 August 2008 on ABC

Cord is mad at Tina for including Sarah in the mess she was in, but Sarah defends her mother and explains that she did everything to protect her. Tina and Cord profess their love for one another, but both agree that they can't be together after all the trouble they went through. Nora keeps...

Hillary's two children a son and a daughter were born in 1986. (edit) In 1988 at the Soap Opera Digest Awards she was nominated for Outstanding Actress in a Supporting Role on a Daytime Serial for As the World Turns. (edit) In 1988 and 1989 she was nominated at the Soap Opera Digest Awards for Outstanding Heroine: Daytime for As the World Turns. (edit) In 1994 and 2001 she was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress at the Soap Opera Digest Awards for One Life to Live. (edit)

Hillary: I just always wanted to be an actor, ever since I was a little, little, little, little kid. Before kindergarten even, I just always wanted to be an actress - I don't know why. I guess it's that over achiever/youngest child syndrome. (edit) (On co-star and friend, Catherine Hickland)
Hillary: I saw her as this bouncy, blonde, kind of fun airhead puppy that came in to play with us. And she's hardly that. She's bouncy and fun, but she's not an airhead puppy by any stretch of the imagination. She and I are very, very close friends. (edit) (On what soap character she would play if she had the chance)
Hillary: I'd love to play Lindsay, Starr or GH's Tracy Quatermaine - someone just a little bit disturbed. (edit) Hillary: After my audition, I never thought I'd get the role. As originally conceived, Nora was supposed to be a little bit like Katharine Hepburn. But I had my own definite idea of what I wanted her to be - more like Lauren Bacall. So I walked into the audition, and like Sinatra, I did it my way. After I finished my reading, the powers-that-be all sat there with their mouths hanging open. You could hear a pin drop. So, with this experience safely behind me, I headed home, confident that I wouldn't be hearing from One Life To Live. But here I am. (edit) Hillary: After years of not being wanted...you have to get the rejection before you get acceptance. What really sold this to me was that the years I put in the west coast weren't for nothing. It was proof that everything you do in life is a building block for the next step in life. You have to be careful how you handle that block, and treat every block with respect. (edit)

Star
As The World Turns Margo Montgomery Hughes (#2) (1983-1990)	No Soap, Radio Karen
One Life to Live Nora Hanen	Something Wilder Annie Bergman
The Doctors (1963) Kit McCormick (1982)

Guest Star
1 Day With... Hillary Bailey Smith Herself	Disneyland Acting Sheriff (30 min)
JoJo's Circus Hi There, Small Fry! / My Dinner With the Tightropes Mrs. Tightrope	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Identity Amelia Stanton
Soapography Budig/H. Smith Herself	Soap Talk Episode 39.02 Herself