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Jeanne Cooper

Acting · Born October 25, 1928 · Taft, California, U.S.

Wilma Jeanne Cooper (born October 25, 1928 in Taft, California), known as Jeanne Cooper, is an American actress best known for her portrayal of Katherine Chancellor on the daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless. Although she was not in the series when the show debuted in March 1973, she made her onscreen debut in November of that year, and remains the longest-tenured actor on The Young and the Restless. She is the mother of Corbin Bernsen.

Movies with Jeanne Cooper

• There Was a Crooked Man... (1970) — Prostitute
• The Boston Strangler (1968) — Cloe
• Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) — Fran
• Plunder Road (1957) — Fran Werner
• The Intruder (1962) — Vi Griffin
• The Man from the Alamo (1953) — Kate Lamar
• 13 West Street (1962) — Mrs. Quinn
• 5 Steps to Danger (1956) — Helen Bethke
• The Redhead from Wyoming (1953) — Myra
• The San Pedro Bums (1977) — Mrs. McClory
• The Naked Street (1955) — Evelyn, Latzi's fiancée (uncredited)
• Tony Rome (1967) — Lorna Boyd

TV shows with Jeanne Cooper

• The Young and the Restless (1973) — Katherine Chancellor
• Bracken's World (1969) — Grace Douglas