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Jeanne Cooper

Acting

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

Died May 8, 2013

Biography

Wilma Jeanne Cooper was an American actress, best known for her role as Katherine Chancellor on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless (1973–2013). At the time of her death, she had played Katherine for nearly 40 years, and her name appears on the list of longest-serving soap opera actors in the United States.

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Awards & recognition

  • star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Filmography44 titles

The Twilight Zone

1959as Miss Smith

The Nanny

1993as Jeanne Cooper

Emergency!

1972

Perry Mason

1957as Mary Browne

Kolchak: The Night Stalker

1974as Dr. Kline

Have Gun, Will Travel

1957

Touched by an Angel

1994as Estelle

McCloud

1970

Hawaii Five-O

1968as Ann

The Intruder

1962as Vi Griffin

Rawhide

1959as Kate Merrill

Diagnosis: Murder

1993as Jeanne Cooper

L.A. Law

1986as Gladys Becker

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

1964as Mother Fear

The Young and the Restless

1973as Katherine Chancellor

Daniel Boone

1964as Addie Ogilvie

Wanted: Dead or Alive

1958as Myra

Ironside

1967as Mrs. Talley

Maverick

1957as Virginia Cory

There Was a Crooked Man...

1970as Prostitute

Mannix

1967

Stoney Burke

1962

The Boston Strangler

1968as Cloe

Thriller

1960as Ethel Bankstrom

Gunsmoke

1955as Lily

5 Steps to Danger

1956as Helen Bethke

The Man from the Alamo

1953as Kate Lamar

The Virginian

1962as Julia Montgomery

The Tomorrow Man

2001

Tony Rome

1967as Lorna Boyd

The Redhead from Wyoming

1953as Myra

The Big Valley

1965as Martha

The Naked Street

1955as Evelyn, Latzi's fiancée (uncredited)

Cheyenne

1955

Highway Patrol

1955as Louise Douglas

The Adventures of Kit Carson

1951

Kansas City Bomber

1972as Vivien

Cimarron Strip

1967

Rock All Night

1957as Mabel

House of Women

1962as Helen Jennings

Dead Air

2009as Paranoid Caller #1

Carpool Guy

2005as Mrs. Lunsford

The All-American Boy

1973as Nola Bealer

Donna on Demand

2009as Virginia Hart