Mark Mortimer, the actor who played Nick Hudson on NBC’s long-running daytime drama “Another World,” died Sept. 23, 2026, at 59. He died of cancer.
His family confirmed the death in an online obituary, which said he died “after a fearless journey with cancer.” Mortimer had been diagnosed with cancer in 2024. Trade and national entertainment outlets widely reported the news, remembering him chiefly for the role that introduced him to television audiences in the 1990s.
From Model to Soap Actor
Mortimer was born April 15, 1967. Accounts of his birthplace differ: one report says he was born in St. Charles, Ill., and another says he was born in Yorkville, Ill. He launched his career as a model before his 1996 television debut.
He made his acting debut in 1996, joining the cast of “Another World” as Nick. He was the third actor to play Nick Hudson on the show, following actors Justin Chambers and Kevin McClatchy, in a role described as a long-lost member of Bay City’s central Hudson family. He logged 81 episodes on the NBC soap over three years. The serial’s final episode, in 1999, when the show ended its network run, still featured him in the part.
Daytime was followed by only a handful of credits. He appeared in the film “Sin City” and in 2005’s “The Nowhere Man,” then largely withdrew from acting, redirecting energy toward business and family. His entire on-camera career was concentrated in roughly a decade.
Business and Family Life
Mortimer married Christie Mortimer in 2000, and the couple went on to start Inside Out Construction together. 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. Hunter Mortimer, his one daughter, completed the household.
Rather than a single career, his family’s tribute laid out his biography as a sequence of reinventions, listing him as an Army veteran, a model, an actor, an entrepreneur and a builder. It described a man drawn to new ventures, comfortable changing direction and working out details as he went along. The obituary said that of all the titles he collected, the two he prized were husband and dad.
“She Was the Schedule”
The obituary gave much of its space 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. The tribute said Mortimer was present and deliberate: bedtime belonged to him every night while Hunter was small, and her later childhood shaped how he booked his work, because he refused to miss it. “She was the schedule,” the obituary said.
Faith Through the Diagnosis
The diagnosis came in 2024, and the family wrote that the illness never became the defining element of his story. In connection with that diagnosis, 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 faith that had shaped his life also carried him to its end, according to the tribute, which added that he did not ground his confidence in any expectation that events would break his way. His family wrote that his belief in Jesus and in the promise of Heaven anchored that confidence instead. The obituary described the conviction as the source of his peace as his life drew to a close.
Audiences who stayed with “Another World” to the finish still recognize Mortimer from the show’s last chapter. NBC closed the book on the serial in 1999, and he was one of the performers whose work was cut short by that decision. For people who knew him after that, the identifying details were a construction company, a marriage that lasted a quarter of his life, and a daughter whose school nights set her father’s calendar.
His wife, Christie, survives him, along with their daughter, Hunter; his mother, Sharlene; his father, Emil; and six siblings, Michael, Michele, Martin, Melissa, David and Tyler.
