Catherine Hickland (born February 11, 1956)[1][2] is an American film, stage, and television actress, as well as a singer, author and cosmetics-company CEO and hypnotist.

From 1998 to 2008, she appeared in the U.S. soap opera One Life to Live, playing the character of Lindsay Rappaport, reprising the role again in 2009 and 2012.

She enrolled at Florida Atlantic University, but dropped out after two years to take a job as a flight attendant for National Airlines.

[5] After six months, she made a commercial for the airline and left for Los Angeles to study acting.

From 1998 to 2009, Hickland portrayed Lindsay Rappaport on One Life to Live, reprising her role towards the end of the show's run in 2012.

[1][8] Hickland's first book, The 30 Day Heartbreak Cure - A Guide to Getting Over Him and Back Out There One Month From Today was published in December 2008 by Simon & Schuster.

[11] On June 27, 1992, Hickland married All My Children star Michael E. Knight,[12] with whom she lived in Manhattan until their divorce in 2006.