Hays was the lone child of Roger and Daisy (Hays) Piper when she was born Kay Piper on July 26, 1934, in Princeton, Illinois. Shortly after her birth, her parents divorced, and Hays was reared by her mother, a banker and bookkeeper, and her stepfather, a salesman named Arnold Gottlieb.
She was raised in Joliet. She worked as a model and attended school at Northwestern University. She changed her name to Kathryn Hays in 1962, using her mother’s maiden name as her last name.
In 1957, Hays married Sidney Steinberg, with whom she had a daughter named Sherri. Actor Glenn Ford and Hays wed in 1966; they divorced in 1969. Wolfgang Lieschke, her third husband, worked in the advertising business.
Hays frequently made appearances on episodic TV at the beginning of her career. Hays said on such performances in an interview with the website We Love Soaps in 2010 “A career launch at the time was ideal. It was a time when female guest stars on primetime programs were nearly universally seen. The star runner would be a male. It would be a really rich part to play the major plot.”
Who is Kathryn Hays’ ex-husband Wolf Lieshke?
Wolf Lieshke was well-known as Kathryn Hays’ ex-husband. His ex-wife, an actress from the United States, died at the age of 88.
