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JEANNE COOPER
(Katherine Chancellor)
Emmy-nominated actress Jeanne Cooper celebrated a record 30 years on The Young and the Restless in January 2004. As the longest-running cast member on the show, Cooper has garnered five Daytime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series and received a nominatino in 2005 as Outstanding Supporting Actress. In 1989, she received a Soap Opera Digest Award and the Soap Opera Digest Editor's Award for her portrayal of Genoa City grande dame Katherine Chancellor. Cooper was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2004 Daytime Emmy Awards.
Cooper earned her first Emmy nomination in 1961 for an episode of Ben Casey and received a star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1993. Her recurring role on L.A. Law, playing the mother to her real-life son, Corbin Bernsen, earned her another Emmy nomination for "Outstanding Guest Performer in a Drama Series" in 1987. Bernsen recently joined his mother on Y&R, making several guest appearances as a priest.
In 1984, footage of Cooper's real-life facelift was televised on Y&R as her character underwent the surgery at the same time. It was the first time an "extreme makeover" had been broadcast in daytime.
An accomplished film and television actress, Cooper was born and raised in Taft, Calif. She attended the College of the Pacific and performed in the Civic Light Opera Company and Revue Theatre in Stockton before graduation from the famed Pasadena Playhouse School.
Her professional career began with the film The Redhead From Wyoming with Maureen O'Hara in 1953, followed by The Man From Alamo with Glenn Ford, There Was a Crooked Man, The Boston Strangler with Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda and George Kennedy, Tony Rome with Frank Sinatra, The All-American Boy with Jon Voight, The Glory Guys, Kansas City Bomber and Let No Man Write My Epitaph with Shelley Winters.
She has starred on television in Playhouse 90, The Twilight Zone and Perry Mason, The Untouchables, Maverick and Bracken's World.
Her stage credits include starring roles in "On The Town," "The Miracle Worker," "Plain and Fancy," and the touring production of "Plaza Suite." She also starred in "Love Letters" at the Canon Theatre in Beverly Hills, California.
Most recently, Cooper starred in the film Tomorrow Man and the telefilms Gentle Ben and Gentle Ben 2: Danger on the Mountain. She is currently in pre-production on two films, Three Day Test and Over the Hedge, which will be produced by Bernsen's film company, Public Filmworks.
She is also the spokesperson for "No2Debt," a company that helps people reclaim their lives by getting out from under the burden of debt.
Cooper is the mother of three children, Caren, Collin and Corbin, and grandmother to eight. Jeanne has blonde hair, blue eyes, and stands 5' 3 1/2" tall. Her birthday is October 25. - Actor/Actress/Director: Jeanne Cooper
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