Smith was born as
Hillary Bailey in Boston, Massachusetts. She attended
Dana Hall School,
Pine Manor College and
Sarah Lawrence College. Smith won the
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1994 for her performance in
One Life to Live. Smith was a producer of the web soap
Venice: The Series, and also appeared as Guya. As a producer, Smith won a Daytime Emmy in 2014. In 2014, Smith was also a supervising producer for the soap opera
web series Beacon Hill, and was nominated for a 2015 Daytime Emmy for
Outstanding New Approaches Drama Series. In late January 2017, it was reported by
Soap Opera Digest and
Deadline Hollywood that Smith would reprise her role as Nora on
General Hospital. == Filmography ==