Mark Mortimer, the actor who played Nick Hudson on NBC’s long-running daytime drama “Another World,” died Sept. 23, 2026, at 59. His family confirmed the death in an online obituary.
The obituary said death came “after a fearless journey with cancer.” It did not specify further details about his illness. Mortimer had been diagnosed with cancer in 2024.
Trade and national entertainment outlets widely reported the death, remembering him chiefly for the role that introduced him to television audiences in the 1990s.
Three Years in Bay City
Mortimer was the third actor to play Nick Hudson on “Another World,” following actors Justin Chambers and Kevin McClatchy. The part has been described as a long-lost member of Bay City’s central Hudson family.
He made his acting debut in 1996, joining the cast as Nick, and logged 81 episodes on the NBC soap over three years. His run carried him to the serial’s final episode in 1999, when the show ended its network run. Viewers who stayed with “Another World” to the end still recognize his face from the show’s closing stretch, and NBC’s decision to shut the serial down cut short the work of performers like him.
His screen work after daytime was limited. He appeared on the sitcom “Spin City” and in the 2005 film “Nowhere Man.” Acting then fell away almost entirely as he put his energy into business and family, leaving a camera career that fit inside roughly a decade.
Mortimer was born April 15, 1967, in Yorkville, Ill.
A Builder and a Dad
Mortimer married Christie Mortimer in 2000. He lived in the Greater Chicago area and most recently worked in the building industry as a founder of Inside Out Construction in Batavia, Ill. Three things identified him once acting ended: a construction company he had built, a marriage of 25 years, and a daughter whose school nights set her father’s calendar.
Rather than trace one career, the family’s tribute walked through a series of reinventions. It named him an Army veteran, a model, an actor, an entrepreneur and a builder, and it sketched a man who chased new ventures, changed direction easily and worked out details as he went along. Of all the titles he collected, the obituary said, the two he prized were husband and dad.
Much of the obituary was given over to his relationship with his daughter, Hunter. The greatest gift of her parents’ lives is how the family described her, and the tribute laid out a bond grounded in honesty and trust. Mortimer, by that account, was present and deliberate about it: every night, when Hunter was small, he was the one who put her to bed; as she got older, he arranged his working life so he would not miss her childhood.
“She was the schedule,” the obituary said.
Faith and a Foundation
The illness, his family wrote, never became the defining element of his story. He met the end of his life with the same faith that had shaped it, according to the tribute, which added that he did not ground his confidence in any expectation that events would break his way. His belief in Jesus and in the promise of Heaven held it instead, the family wrote — a conviction that, in the obituary’s telling, gave him peace as his life drew to a close.
Mortimer and his wife, Christie, founded the Integrative Access Foundation, created to give people facing cancer access to integrative therapies that might otherwise be financially out of reach. The family’s account ties the foundation to his 2024 diagnosis.
His wife, Christie, survives him, as do his daughter, Hunter; his mother, Sharlene; and his father, Emil. Six siblings also survive him: Michael, Michele, Martin, Melissa, David and Tyler.
