Kathryn Hays

Kathryn Hays joined ATWT in 1972. She plays Kim Hughes.

Among her additional television credits are guest-starring roles in more than 50 series, including High Chaparral and Star Trek, for which she received Emmy Award nominations, and The Road West, opposite Barry Sullivan. She also starred in the daytime musical special After Hours: Getting to Know You on the CBS Television Network.

Hays' numerous feature film credits include leading roles in Counterpoint (with Charlton Heston and Miximillian Schell), The Savage Land (with George C. Scott), Yuma (with Clint Walker), Ride Beyond Vengeance and Lady Bug, Lady Bug.

On Broadway, she had featured roles in Mary, Mary (with Barbara Bel Geddes and Barry Nelson), and The Irregular Verb to Love (with Claudette Colbert and Cyril Ritchard).

Kathryn and Don Hastings, also of ATWT, toured with a musical concert act, Hastings and Hays on Love, and were both part of the cast of an Off-Broadway production of Algonquin Sampler.

Hays' additional theater credits include appearances in musicals with the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera and a starring role in the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera production of the Stephen Sondheim musical Follies, which was videotaped as a permanent part of the Lincoln Center Library of the Performing Arts collection of American Musicals. She also appeared in A Little Night Music at the Equity Library Theatre in New York City and in regional productions of Same Time Next Year (as Doris), in Sullivan, IL, Good News (at the North Shore Music Festival), Dames at Sea (at the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey), Can-Can (in Monroe, LA), Show Boat (with the Kenley Stock Circuit), and a touring production of Two by Two.

She was born in Princeton, IL, took theater classes at the nearby Northwestern University while still in high school, and attended junior college in Joliet, IL.

Hays, who has a married daughter named Sherri, lives in Manhattan. She was born on July 26.

Related links:

  • Kathryn Hays' Internet Movie Database Filmography
  • Michael Logan Interviews Kathryn Hays (12/2/97)
  • The Hays of Our Lives by Michael Logan (11/24/97)
  • As the World Turns : The Complete Family Scrapbook
  • Interview With Kathryn Hays (November 1998)
  • ATWT News & Previews Main Page
    This page last updated 1/7/99.