Deborah Adair

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Deborah Adair (born May 23, 1952 in Lynchburg, Virginia) is an American actress, best remembered for her performances in television.

Deborah Adair didn't start out as an actress, as she had earned a degree in advertising and marketing at University of Washington. She worked as a copywriter, commercial producer and assistant promotion manager for radio stations in Seattle, Washington. Her four-year marriage to a politician Gary Baker ended in 1978. She came to Hollywood and found an agent who helped her land small parts in several TV series. Her big break came in 1980 when she was cast as Jill Foster Abbott on The Young and the Restless. In 1983, she left The Young and the Restless to take the role of Tracy Kendall in Dynasty, a role she played from 1983 to 1984. She followed this with the regular role of Daisy Lloyd in Finder of Lost Loves in 1985. In 1986 she made a one-week return to The Young and the Restless to reprise her role as Jill, delighting fans who forever remember her as the "pretty Jill". She also appeared on Santa Barbara for a handful of episodes.

Adair married producer Chip Hayes in 1987. She worked for her husband on his primetime show Melrose Place (1992), playing the recurring role of Lucy Cabot over one season. She also originated the role of Kate Roberts on Days of our Lives becoming one of few actors to play in both a daytime soap opera and a nighttime soap opera at the same time. She left Melrose Place while continuing on Days of our Lives, a role for which she won the Best Supporting Actress Award at the Soap Opera Digest Award in 1994. In 1995, she retired from acting to be a full-time mom when she and her husband adopted two children.