Hilda Fay is an Irish actor. She is known to television viewers as the character Tracey McGuigan in long-running soap opera Fair City. She graduated from Trinity College, Dublin's Samuel Beckett Centre. She has appeared on stage in the Abbey Theatre's productions Little Gem and The Playboy of the Western World, toured the nation with Tivoli Theatre's The Vagina Monologues and has been in The Woman Who Walked into Doors at the Olympia. She participated in Celebrity Jigs 'n' Reels, and won the show. She was nominated in the category Best Actress in a Supporting Role in Television at the 6th Irish Film and Television Awards for her role in Whistleblower. She has also appeared in Finbar's Class, Ordinary Decent Criminal, Saltwater, Though the Sky Falls, Proof, Prosperity, On the Street Where You Live and The Clinic. She married her finance Alan Vale in 2007. She enjoys playing the piano.