Heather Hill Dead: ‘Young and the Restless’ Director Was 85

Heather Hill, the longtime Young and the Restless director who collected six Daytime Emmys for her work on the CBS soap opera, has died. She was 85.

Hill died Friday at her home in Las Vegas, a family spokesperson announced.

Hill was nominated for the Outstanding Drama Series Directing Team Emmy every year from 1988 through 2000, winning in 1988, ’89, ’96, ’97, ’98 and ’99. She shared three of those wins and one nom with her husband, Randall Hill.

Born in Rye, New York, Hill graduated from Rye Country Day School before beginning her TV career in New York in the 1970s as a production assistant on the CBS soap opera Love of Life . She quickly advanced through the ranks to become an assistant director and then a director.

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