Lindsay Hartley is an American actress and singer. She was born Lindsay Nicole Korman in Palm Springs, California, and is of Russian Jewish, as well as Greek and Italian, descent. Singing since age eleven, Hartley was a national pre-teen talent winner of the Young Miss America Beauty Pageant. At the age of fourteen, she was cast in her first professional role, playing Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, at the Mc Callum Theatre in Palm Desert, California. At sixteen, Hartley and her family relocated to Las Vegas, Nevada, where she graduated a year early from high school and headlined as the lead vocalist in the Las Vegas Sands Hotel afternoon show Viva Las Vegas. Shortly after attending the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Hartley had the great honor to move to New York City and perform on Broadway, in the hit musical Grease!. Hartley has won several national vocal competitions, including The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Award-Vocal/Opera, Hartley is most notably know for portraying the hopeless romantic Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald on the NBC soap opera Passions, from 1999-2008.
In 2000, she was not only nominated for the Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Female Newcomer, she wrote the song Kiss Me for her character, which she performed that year on the show. In 2009, Soap Opera Digest announced that Hartley would join the cast of Days of Our Lives, another NBC soap opera. The following year, Hartley signed on to play the new character of Cara Castillo on All My Children. She was also cast as DC Comics character Mad Harriet during Smallville’s tenth and final season. In 2013, Hartley once again played the role of Dr. Cara Castillo on the new All My Children being revived by Prospect Park.
After landing her first lead in a Hallmark movie titled, On Paper, Hartley joined the cast of Queens of Drama. Since then, Lindsay has been cast as the lead in numerous Lifetime thrillers which prompted her to write them. In 2017, Lindsay starred in the first movie she wrote that debuted on Lifetime, Deadly Exchange. Lindsay has been writing non-stop and recently had her eighth movie green-lit for production. Engrossed in the world of acting and writing, Lindsay was intrigued by the work of directors. With a strong need to collaborate, in June of 2019, Lindsay directed her first thriller, Forgotten Abduction, debuting on The Lifetime Channel this year!
Lindsay lives in Los Angeles with her daughter, Isabella Hartley.
