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, which said it came “after a fearless journey with cancer.” The notice did not specify further details about his illness. Mortimer had been diagnosed with cancer in 2024.
Trade and national entertainment outlets reported the death widely, and he is remembered chiefly for the 1990s television role.
Third Actor to Play Nick
Mortimer was the third actor to take the Nick Hudson role, after Justin Chambers and Kevin McClatchy. The character was described as a long-lost member of Bay City’s central Hudson family.
Mortimer was born April 15, 1967, in St. Charles, Illinois. He made his acting debut in 1996, joining the “Another World” cast as Nick. He appeared in 81 episodes of the NBC soap over three years, and his run carried to the serial’s final episode in 1999, when the show’s network run ended. He was a familiar face from the show’s last chapter, and his work was cut short at the serial’s end.
His screen work after daytime was limited. His film credits include “Sin City” and 2005’s “The Nowhere Man.” He then largely withdrew from acting and redirected his energy to business and family. His on-camera career was concentrated in roughly a decade.
A Builder and a Foundation
Mortimer married Christie Mortimer in 2000, and the couple started a company together, Inside Out Construction. They had one daughter, Hunter Mortimer. He lived in the Greater Chicago area, and his most recent work came in the building industry as the founder of Inside Out Construction, based in Batavia, Illinois.
Mortimer and his wife, Christie, also founded the Integrative Access Foundation, which was created to give people facing cancer access to integrative therapies that might otherwise be financially out of reach, according to the family’s announcement.
Acquaintances who met him after the soap knew a construction company, a marriage lasting a quarter of his life and a daughter whose school nights set her father’s calendar.
A Life of Reinventions
The family’s tribute framed his biography as a sequence of reinventions rather than a single career, listing his roles as Army veteran, model, actor, entrepreneur and builder. The family described his path as “from serving in the United States Army to modeling, acting, and eventually to entrepreneurship,” and wrote, “He was never afraid to reinvent himself or pursue a new idea.”
The tribute portrayed a man drawn to new ventures and comfortable changing direction, with the details worked out as he went. The obituary said he prized two titles above the rest: husband and dad.
The obituary devoted much of its length to his relationship with his daughter. The family called Hunter the greatest gift of her parents’ lives and described a bond grounded in honesty and trust. He was present and deliberate, the tribute said, handling bedtime every night when Hunter was small. As she got older, he arranged his working life so as not to miss her childhood. “She was the schedule,” the obituary said.
Faith at the End
The family wrote in a section on faith that his illness was never the defining element of his story. The tribute said he met the end of his life with the same faith that had shaped it, and that his confidence did not rest on an expectation that events would break his way. His confidence rested on a belief in Jesus and in the promise of Heaven, the family wrote. The obituary said that conviction was a source of peace as his life drew to a close.
His wife, Christie; his daughter, Hunter; his mother, Sharlene; and his father, Emil, survive him. Six siblings also survive him: Michael, Michele, Martin, Melissa, David and Tyler.