[1] Smith reprised the role when new regular episodes of OLTL began airing on Hulu, iTunes, and FX Canada via The Online Network in April 2013.

Nora was introduced as a guest character in 1992, by head writer Michael Malone and executive producer Linda Gottlieb.

Her first front-burner storyline was a six-week trial in which she defended Todd Manning and his fraternity brothers, who were accused of gang-raping college student Marty Saybrooke.

[6] The actress said in an interview with Soap Opera Digest, "When [then-Executive Producer] Linda Gottlieb told me [Nora] would be representing the rapists and would get them off, I was nauseated.

[6] Almost immediately after her debut, Nora became a centerpiece of the show, particularly for her involvement in the multiple-Emmy Award winning rape trial storyline.

[8] In January 2017, it was revealed that Smith would reprise her role as Nora on General Hospital, making her the first One Life to Live actress to cross over to another soap since the end of Prospect Park's lawsuit against ABC.

The case is finally closed and the two become best friends; slowly their relationship grows into romance after a kiss on New Year's Eve.

During Nora's recovery from a brain tumor, she is terrorized by former client Todd Manning, whom she had betrayed while defending him for Marty's rape, leading to his conviction.

Nora hopes to conceive a child to give Bo a reason to live; out of desperation, she turns to former lover, Sam Rappaport.

Sam dies in 2003, leaving behind a letter which reveals that Bo is the biological father of Nora’s son, Matthew.

When Daniel is set to be sworn in as Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, he is arrested for the murders of Paul Cramer and Jennifer Rappaport.

The matter is complicated when, on the night before Nora's wedding to Clint, Matthew catches his parents passionately kissing.

He attempts to blackmail them into giving consent for the surgery; they call his bluff and ultimately Matthew cannot intentionally hurt Clint by telling him what he saw.

Bo and Nora welcome their grandson, Drew Buchanan II, to their family on the series finale, which aired on January 13, 2012.

With Bo's encouragement, she begins hosting a radio call-in program as the “Nightbird.” Nora arrives in Port Charles, New York in March 2017, first appearing in an encounter Diane Miller.

Nora is the hired private lawyer for Valentin Cassadine in a child custody lawsuit for his daughter, Charlotte, against her biological mother Lulu Spencer Falconeri.