Person
Jeanne Cooper
Born 25 October 1928 Died 8 May 2013, aged 84 Taft, California, U.S. TMDB ↗
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.
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22age in their first credit on record (1951)
58years on screen and counting
12credits in 1957, their busiest year
105dated credits on record
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Movie credits
Age: 81 Dead Air
2009as Paranoid Caller #1
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Age: 80 Donna on Demand
2009as Virginia Hart
Age: 76 Carpool Guy
2005as Mrs. Lunsford
Age: 72 The Tomorrow Man
2001
Age: 65 Beyond Suspicion
1993as Renata
Age: 63 Frozen Assets
1992as Zach Shepard's mother
Age: 48 The San Pedro Bums
1977as Mrs. McClory
Age: 46 Sweet Hostage
1975as Mrs. Withers
Age: 44 The All-American Boy
1973as Nola Bealer
Age: 43 Kansas City Bomber
1972as Vivien
Age: 41 There Was a Crooked Man...
1970as Prostitute
Age: 39 The Boston Strangler
1968as Cloe
Age: 39 Tony Rome
1967as Lorna Boyd
Age: 38 Mosby's Marauders
1967as Ma Prentiss
Age: 34 Black Zoo
1963as Edna Conrad
Age: 33 The Intruder
1962as Vi Griffin
Age: 33 House of Women
1962as Helen Jennings
Age: 33 13 West Street
1962as Mrs. Quinn
Age: 33 Red Nightmare
1962as Helen Donavan
Age: 32 Let No Man Write My Epitaph
1960as Fran
Age: 30 Unwed Mother
1958as Mrs. Horton
Age: 29 Plunder Road
1957as Fran Werner
Age: 28 Rock All Night
1957as Mabel
Age: 28 5 Steps to Danger
1956as Helen Bethke
Age: 28 The Country Husband
1956as Shirl
Age: 27 Sizeman and Son
1956as Receptionist
Age: 27 Calling Homicide
1956as Darlene Adams
Age: 27 The Houston Story
1956as Madge
Age: 26 The Naked Street
1955as Evelyn, Latzi's fiancée (uncredited)
Age: 24 Shadows of Tombstone
1953as Marge
Age: 24 The Man from the Alamo
1953as Kate Lamar
Age: 24 The Redhead from Wyoming
1953as Myra
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TV credits
Age: 65 Touched by an Angel
1994as Estelle
Age: 65 The Nanny
1993as Jeanne Cooper
Age: 65 Diagnosis: Murder
1993as Jeanne Cooper
Age: 57 L.A. Law
1986as Gladys Becker
Age: 45 Kolchak: The Night Stalker
1974 Age: 45 Kolchak: The Night Stalker
1974as Dr. Kline
Age: 45 Run, Joe, Run
1974
Age: 44 Doc Elliot
1973
Age: 44 The Young and the Restless
1973as Katherine Chancellor
Age: 44 Hawkins
1973as Mrs. Hamilton
Age: 43 Emergency!
1972
Age: 42 Cannon
1971
Age: 41 McCloud
1970
Age: 41 Nanny and the Professor
1970
Age: 40 Bracken's World
1969as Grace Douglas
Age: 39 Lancer
1968
Age: 39 Hawaii Five-O
1968as Ann
Age: 39 The Outsider
1968
Age: 38 Mannix
1967
Age: 38 Cimarron Strip
1967
Age: 38 Ironside
1967 Age: 38 Ironside
1967as Mrs. Talley
Age: 37 The Monroes
1966
Age: 36 The Loner
1965as Marge
Age: 36 Laredo
1965
Age: 36 The Big Valley
1965as Martha
Age: 36 The Big Valley
1965as Elaine Jason
Age: 36 Branded
1965
Age: 35 Daniel Boone
1964as Amy Barr
Age: 35 Daniel Boone
1964as Addie Ogilvie
Age: 35 The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964as Mother Fear
Age: 34 Mr. Novak
1963as Louise Sargent
Age: 34 Channing
1963as Margaret Dellafield
Age: 34 The Dakotas
1963
Age: 33 Stoney Burke
1962
Age: 33 The Virginian
1962as Julia Montgomery
Age: 32 The New Breed
1961as Helen
Age: 32 Ben Casey
1961
Age: 32 Dr. Kildare
1961as Marian Colby
Age: 32 87th Precinct
1961
Age: 31 Surfside 6
1960
Age: 31 Thriller
1960as Ethel Bankstrom
Age: 31 The Tall Man
1960
Age: 30 The Twilight Zone
1959as Miss Smith
Age: 30 Rawhide
1959as Mrs. Clara Wilson
Age: 30 Rawhide
1959as Kate Merrill
Age: 29 77 Sunset Strip
1958
Age: 29 The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen
1958as Gene Taylor
Age: 29 Bronco
1958
Age: 29 Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958as Myra
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Age: 29 Jefferson Drum
1958as Phoebe West
Age: 28 Maverick
1957 Age: 28 Maverick
1957as Virginia Cory
Age: 28 Perry Mason
1957as Laura Beaumont
Age: 28 Perry Mason
1957as Thelma Bell
Age: 28 Perry Mason
1957as Ethel Belan
Age: 28 Perry Mason
1957as Mary Browne
Age: 28 Perry Mason
1957as Miriam Fielding
Age: 28 M Squad
1957as Julia Gifford
Age: 28 Sugarfoot
1957as Rachel Barnes
Age: 28 Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
Age: 27 Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956as Lucy
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Age: 27 State Trooper
1956
Age: 27 Matinee Theater
1955
Age: 26 Highway Patrol
1955as Louise Douglas
Age: 26 Cheyenne
1955
Age: 26 Gunsmoke
1955as Lily
Age: 26 The Millionaire
1955as Vicki Delbridge
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Age: 24 I Led 3 Lives
1953as Comrade Sally
Age: 24 General Electric Theater
1953as Cigarette Girl
Age: 24 I Led Three Lives
1953
Age: 22 Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Age: 22