Kathryn Hays (July 26, 1934 – March 25, 2022) was an American actress best remembered for playing Kim Hughes on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns from 1972 to 2010.

Kay Piper, the only child of Roger and Daisy (Hays) Piper, was born on July 26, 1934, in Princeton, Illinois. Hays was reared by her mother, a bookkeeper, and banker, and her stepfather, salesman Arnold Gottlieb when her parents split shortly after her birth.

She was also in films like Ride Beyond Vengeance and Counterpoint. Later in her career, she appeared in Law & Order and Special Victims Unit.

In 1972, she was cast as Kim Sullivan Hughes on CBS’s As the World Turns. Hays played the role of Leslie Jackson Bauer Norris Bauer R. N. #2 on The Guiding Light. In May 2020, she appeared in an episode of The Locher Room, a series of YouTube episodes reuniting various soap actors.

Kathryn Hays children: Meet daughter Shari Hays Wells

Kathryn Hays was raised in Joliet. She attended Northwestern University and worked as a model. She changed her name to Kathryn Hays (using her mother’s maiden name as her last name) in 1962.

In 1957, Hays married Sidney Steinberg, with whom she had a daughter, Sherri. Hays married actor Glenn Ford in 1966; the pair separated in 1969.

Shari Hays Wells is the daughter of Kathryn Hays and an American actress. Shari Hays’ mother, Kathryn, is an American actress best known for her role as Kim Hughes on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns, which she played from 1972 to 2010.

Shari’s birth date and specific location are unknown because this information has not been made public. Shari, like her mother, works in the entertainment industry.

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