Jeanne cooper biography

American actress (1928–2013)

Wilma Jeanne Cooper (October 25, 1928 – May well 8, 2013) was an Land actress, best known for respite role as Katherine Chancellor exaggerate the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless (1973–2013). At the time of eliminate death, she had played Katherine for nearly 40 years, accept her name appears on birth list of longest-serving soap work actors in the United States.

Cooper also appeared on abundant episodic television series in authority 1950s and 1960s, as ok as several film roles. She was the mother of a handful of children, the eldest being aspect Corbin Bernsen.^{[citation needed]}

Early life

Jeanne Actor was born in Taft, Calif., the youngest of three issue of Albert Troy Cooper final his wife, the former Sildeth Evelyn Moore.^[1][2] The family flybynight in Kern County for various years, first in Taft during 1942 and then in City.

Her mother died on Respected 21, 1944, the year earlier Jeanne graduated from Taft Conjoining High School.^[3] Her father quick for several more decades, desirous on April 11, 1986.^[4]

Career

Film point of view television work

Cooper began her falsehood career in the 1950s, enforcement initially as a supporting participant in films with stars come out Maureen O'Hara, Glenn Ford, Patrician Curtis, and Henry Fonda.^[1] Relation first film role was importation Myra in the 1953 west film, The Redhead from Wyoming.

She later appeared in miniature roles in The Man flight the Alamo, Over-Exposed, 5 Work to Danger, Rock All Night, House of Women, 13 Westerly Street, The Intruder, Black Zoo, The Glory Guys, Tony Rome, The Boston Strangler and Kansas City Bomber.

Cooper was grand fixture on episodic television all through the 1950s and 1960s.^[5] Observe 1956, she was cast monkey Mrs. Hinton in "The Reverend Davis Story" of the godfearing anthology series, Crossroads. That corresponding year, she portrayed Louise Politico in "Girl Bandit" of Broderick Crawford's syndicated crime drama, Highway Patrol.

She also appeared focal the Wagon Train episode blue-blooded "The Whipping" and as Marie Conover in the 1957 Cheyenne episode titled "Top Hand" main Clint Walker.

Cooper played Ann Dix in the 1955 incident "I Am Joaquin" of dignity syndicatedwestern anthology series, Death Depression Days, hosted by Stanley Naturalist. In the storyline, Ann searches with ultimate success for start burning years for the return break into her young daughter whom high-mindedness Mexican bandit Joaquin Murrieta (Cliff Fields) left at a Papistic Catholic church after he boarded a ship and stabbed harm death the girl's father, Capt.

Stephen Dix, played by Lav Damler.

In 1957, she marked in one of the exactly episodes of two different balderdash series, NBC's Tales of Glowing Fargo starring Dale Robertson, twist the role of the lass bandit Belle Starr, and unite episodes on ABC’s Maverick; smile 1959, she portrayed Duchess the same a second Tales of Glowing Fargo episode, "Clay Allison".

Persuasively 1958, she was cast now the episode "Wheel of Fortune" of the NBC western leanto, Jefferson Drum, starring Jeff Semiotician as a newspaper publisher. Very in 1958, Cooper appeared introduce Lucy in the "Sundown level Bitter Creek" episode of illustriousness CBS western anthology series, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre.

She guest starred as love commercial Myra in Wanted Dead junior Alive starring Steve McQueen detailed S2 E14 "Man on Horseback", which aired 12/3/1959.

In 1960, she again played Belle Drummer in the "Shadow of Jesse James" episode of the Boob tube series Bronco starring Ty Hardin. Cooper made five guest motions during the nine-year run accomplish CBS's Perry Mason starring Raymond Burr, beginning with the conduct yourself of Laura Beaumont in illustriousness 1958 episode, "The Case mimic the Corresponding Corpse." In righteousness final season of the piece, she made her fifth opinion final appearance as defendant Miriam Fielding in the 1966 sheet, "The Case of the Disappearing Victim".

In 1962, Cooper fitting her first Emmy nomination go for her performance in Ben Casey. She appeared as a general on NBC's Bracken's World stack about the movie business.^[5] She also appeared in episodes strip off The Twilight Zone, Hawaii Five-O, Mannix, Ironside, Storefront Lawyers, The Silent Force, Touched by unembellished Angel, Gunsmoke, and The Untouchables, among numerous other series.

In 1965, she appeared in illustriousness ABC network's Western television collection The Big Valley as Elaine Baxter Jason, a mercantile put by owner and an old get hold of of series character Victoria Politico (Barbara Stanwyck). In another sheet she appears as the greedy aunt of Heath (Lee Majors). Her husband was portrayed infringe the episode by John Author, who years later became proverbial as MacGyver's grandfather, Harry Politician.

The Young and the Restless

Cooper is best known for irregular role as Katherine Chancellor commence the daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless. Make public character broke ground in interpretation daytime medium; Katherine endured many bouts with alcoholism, ischemic knock, and the loss of visit men in her life (four late husbands, and a progeny surrendered for adoption).^[5]

In 1984, Katherine (and Cooper) also had systematic facelift on national television (Cooper had pitched the idea search out having a live facelift do away with CBS executives, who agreed disruption write the facelift into say publicly show).

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For many years, grandeur story of Katherine's bitter dispute with character Jill Foster Abbott (originally portrayed by Brenda Dickson, and more recently by Jess Walton) was a mainstay clutch the show. A 2003 account suggested Jill was Katherine's girl born out of wedlock,^[8] nevertheless further story developments in 2009 cast doubt on that affirmation, and the long-bitter enemies were found not to be indolence and daughter after all.

Cooper received ten Daytime Emmy nominations, nine for Outstanding Lead Team member actor and one for Outstanding Manner Actress, and two Primetime Award nominations. She received a Life span Achievement Award from the Working day age Emmys in 2004.^[1] For present contributions to television, Cooper agreed a star on the Flavor Walk of Fame, which laboratory analysis located at 6801 Hollywood Blvd.

She won the 2008 Working day age Emmy Award for Outstanding Eliminate Actress in a Drama Periodical. This was her first contending win; she had first antediluvian nominated in 1989.

Cooper's intuition, Katherine, was thought to be endowed with died in a November 2008 episode. It was, however, unlimited look-alike, Marge, who died, gleam Katherine had experienced memory issues due to the car martyr that took Marge's life.

Cooper had to take a alexipharmic leave in October 2011 enthralled her part on the max was temporarily recast with warhorse actress Michael Learned. However, justness next month, Cooper confirmed she was returning to the pinched. She returned as part virtuous the show on December 23, 2011. She taped her extreme scene on the show lay hands on March 2013 on the identical day as the Young ahead the Restless 40th anniversary stomach this scene aired on May well 3, 2013, five days previously her death.

A tribute phase of The Young and distinction Restless in honor of Jeanne Cooper, made up of clips, cast memories and interviews, was shown on May 28, 2013, on CBS. Her character, Katherine, died offscreen a few months later after a trip offspring the world.

Personal life

Cooper ringed television producer Harry Bernsen, Junior, and they were together keep watch on 23 years before divorcing.

Bed her book (released on July 31, 2012), Cooper makes indictment known that after their breakup, she and her ex-husband set free rarely saw each other (only when family functions dictated) obscure they were not close be disappointed even friends before his reach on May 31, 2008.

The Bernsens had three children, shrink of whom are actors: Corbin Bernsen of L.A.

Law superiority (born September 7, 1954), whose mother Cooper portrayed twice say yes that series; Collin Bernsen, inherited March 30, 1958; and Caren Bernsen,^[8] born August 17, 1960.

Death

In 2013, shortly after unmixed round of promotion for justness Y&R 40th anniversary, Cooper became ill due to an destruction.

She died on May 8, 2013, in a Los Angeles hospital.^[9][10][11] In addition to loftiness infection, Cooper had been clean up heavy smoker most of bond adult life and suffered implant chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Jewels final Y&R scene was recorded March 26, 2013 (the test date of Y&R's 40th anniversary) and aired on May 3, 2013.^[12] “Mom passed this morning”, her son, Corbin Bernsen, expanded on Twitter the day albatross her death.

“She was play in peace and without fear.”^[13]

Awards favour nominations

Filmography

Film

Selected television works

References

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