Mark Mortimer

Mark Mortimer died on 23 September 2026 at the age of 59, surrounded by his family, after living with cancer since 2024. His obituary, published by Moss-Norris Funeral Home in Saint Charles, Illinois, described his illness as a fearless journey. The type of cancer was not made public.

News of his death was shared on social media by Alan Locher, host of The Locher Room, and was reported by Soap Opera News and Soap Opera Digest. Fans who had watched him on Another World left messages of sympathy. Visitation was held on 25 September 2026 at Moss-Norris Funeral Home, and the funeral service took place the next morning at Christ Community Church in South Elgin, Illinois. He was then taken back to New York to be buried at St. Charles/Resurrection Cemetery in Farmingdale. His family asked that memorial gifts go to the Integrative Access Foundation.

He was survived by his wife Christie, his daughter Hunter, his mother Sharlene Pearson, his father Emil and stepmother Belinda, his six siblings, his in-laws and many nieces and nephews.

Mark Christopher Mortimer was born on 15 April 1967 in Yorkville, Illinois, a small city southwest of Chicago. His mother was Sharlene Pearson and his father Emil Mortimer. He grew up with six siblings, Micheal, Michele, Martin, Melissa, David and Tyler.

As a young man he served in the United States Army. After leaving the service he worked as a model, which led him to acting.

Mortimer's best known role was Nick Hudson on Another World, the NBC daytime drama set in the fictional Bay City. The character had been played briefly by Justin Chambers in 1995 and then by Kevin McClatchy, and Mortimer took over the part on 24 December 1996. Nick's storylines in those years centred on his on and off romance with Sofia Carlino and his ties to the Hudson family. Mortimer stayed with the show until its final broadcast on 25 June 1999, when Another World ended after 35 years on the air.

After the soap he appeared in independent films, among them The Nowhere Man, Killing Cupid and Lethal. He then left acting behind for business. With his wife Christie and their partner Dave he built Inside Out Construction, also known as IOC Construction, which became a central part of the family's life for more than 20 years. His family described him as a builder in every sense, who valued hard work, loyalty and the people he worked with, many of whom became lifelong friends.

Mortimer met his wife, Christie, in 2000 at Hunter Mountain in New York. They were married for 25 years and lived in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles before settling again in the Chicago area, around Saint Charles, Illinois. After waiting 11 years to become parents they had a daughter, Hunter. His obituary said he put her to bed every night when she was small and later built his working life around being present for her.

He was a man of Christian faith, and his family said that faith gave him peace at the end of his life. After his cancer diagnosis in 2024, he and Christie founded the Integrative Access Foundation, created to give people facing cancer access to integrative and whole person therapies that might otherwise be financially out of reach. He also talked about his illness in conversations shared under the name Beyond the Diagnosis.

For soap opera fans, Mortimer remains the Nick Hudson of Another World's final years, the actor who carried the role to the end of a series that had run since 1964. His family hoped he would be remembered as much for what he built afterwards: a construction company that lasted more than two decades and a foundation that continues his effort to make integrative cancer care available to families who could not otherwise afford it.