Mark Mortimer, an actor best known for playing Nick Hudson on the NBC daytime drama “Another World,” died Sept. 23, 2026, at 59.
His family confirmed the death in an online obituary, which said the death came “after a fearless journey with cancer.” The obituary 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.
The Third Nick Hudson
Mortimer was the third actor to play Nick Hudson on “Another World,” following actors Justin Chambers and Kevin McClatchy. The role is a long-lost member of Bay City’s central Hudson family.
He made his acting debut in 1996, when he joined the cast as Nick. The part ran three years and 81 episodes on the NBC soap, and it took him all the way to the serial’s closing installment in 1999, the year the network ended the show.
Daytime proved to be the bulk of his screen résumé. 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.
Viewers who stayed with “Another World” to the end still recognize him from its closing stretch. He is one of the actors whose run the network cut off when NBC shut the serial down in 1999.
Veteran, Model and Builder
Mortimer was born April 15, 1967, in St. Charles, Ill.
He 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.
The family’s tribute presented his biography as a sequence of reinventions rather than a single career, 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.
Three things identified him once the acting stopped. A construction company carried his name, a marriage took up a quarter of his life, and his daughter’s school nights dictated what went on her father’s calendar.
Putting His Daughter First
Much of the obituary was given over 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, one that Mortimer built on purpose: every night, when Hunter was small, he was the parent 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.
A Foundation for Cancer Patients
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 illness, the family wrote, never took over the story of his life. The same faith that had shaped that life carried him through its final stretch, the tribute said, and his confidence did not rest on the expectation that events would break his way. The family wrote that his belief in Jesus and in the promise of Heaven held him up instead — a conviction that, in the obituary’s telling, gave him peace as his life drew to a close.
Six siblings — Michael, Michele, Martin, Melissa, David and Tyler — survive Mortimer, along with his wife, Christie; their daughter, Hunter; his mother, Sharlene; and his father, Emil.
