Updated On: 09 April, 2022 04:29 PM IST | Mumbai | ANI
Hays began her professional acting career in the early 1960s with appearances on series like `Hawaiian Eye`, `Surfside 6`, `Naked City` and `Route 66`

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Veteran actor Kathryn Hays known for her pivotal roles in `Star Trek` and `As The World Turns` has passed away at the age of 87. Deadline confirmed that Hays died on March 25 in Fairfield, Connecticut.
Hays started playing the trouble-making homewrecker Kim Sullivan in `As the World Turns` for 38 years, starting in 1972. In addition to her long-running role on the American television soap opera, she is remembered by fans of the original `Star Trek` for her memorable guest role of Gem in the 1968 episode `The Empath`. She played the beautiful alien who gives the episode its title.