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Deborah Adair (born Deborah Adair Miller on May 23, 1952 in Lynchburg, Virginia) is an American television actress, primarily known for her roles in soap operas. Adair attended the University of Washington where she earned a degree in advertising and marketing. She worked as a copywriter, commercial producer and assistant promotion manager for radio stations in Seattle, Washington. Adair was married to politician Gary Baker for four years, divorcing in 1978. Adair came to Hollywood and found an agent who helped her land small parts in several television series. Her big break came in 1980 when she was cast as Jill Foster Abbott on the daytime soap opera ''The Young and the Restless''. In 1983, she left ''The Young and the Restless'' to take the role of Tracy Kendall in the primetime soap opera ''Dynasty'', a role she played until 1984. She followed this with the regular role of Daisy Lloyd in another Aaron Spelling series, ''Finder of Lost Loves'', in 1984. In 1986, she made a one-week return to ''The Young and the Restless'' to reprise her role as Jill. She also appeared on the daytime soap opera ''Santa Barbara'' for a handful of episodes. Adair married television producer Chip Hayes in 1987. She worked with her husband on the primetime soap opera ''Melrose Place'', in which she played the recurring role of advertising executive Lucy Cabot from 1992-93. She also portrayed the role of Kate Roberts on ''Days of Our Lives'' in 1993 and became one of few actors to play in both a daytime soap opera and a nighttime soap opera. 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20030817133209/http://www.soapoperadigest.com/awards/1994/ )〕 In total, Adair has appeared in seven different projects produced by Aaron Spelling; ''Dynasty'', ''Matt Houston'', ''The Love Boat'', ''Finder of Lost Loves'', ''Hotel'' (in which she played four different roles between 1984–87), ''Melrose Place'' and the television movie ''Rich Men Single Women'' (1990). She has also appeared in a variety of other primetime series such as ''Murder, She Wrote'', ''Blacke's Magic'' and ''MacGyver''. She also played a supporting role as Kate Chase in the Emmy Award-nominated miniseries ''Lincoln'' (1988). In 1995, she retired from acting after she and her husband adopted two children, Lucy Taylor Hayes (December 19, 1995) and Jackson William Hayes (June 9, 1997). == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Deborah Adair」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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