Emmy Award-nominated actress Jeanne Cooper celebrated a record 35 years playing Katherine Chancellor on CBS's "The Young and the Restless" in January 2009. As the longest-running cast member on the show, Cooper has earned five Daytime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series and one for Outstanding Supporting Actress, winning the award for Lead Actress in 2008.
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 Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Performer in a Drama Series in 1987.
Her additional television credits include "Playhouse 90," "The Twilight Zone" and "Perry Mason," all on CBS, "The Untouchables," "Maverick" and "Bracken's World."
An accomplished film and television actress, Cooper was born and raised in Taft, California. She attended the College of the Pacific and performed in the Civic Light Opera Company and Revue Theatre in Stockton before graduation from the Pasadena Playhouse School.
Her professional career began with the film "The Redhead from Wyoming," followed by "The Man from Alamo," "There Was a Crooked Man," "The Boston Strangler," "Tony Rome," "The All-American Boy," "The Glory Guys," "Kansas City Bomber" and "Let No Man Write My Epitaph." Cooper starred in the film "Tomorrow Man" and the telefilms "Gentle Ben" and "Gentle Ben 2: Danger on the Mountain." She had a starring role in the independent feature "Carpool Guy," directed by and starring Bernsen, and recently appeared in two films, "Three Day Test" and "Over the Hedge," which was produced by Bernsen's film company, Public Filmworks.
Additionally, she is the spokesperson for "No2Debt.com," 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 of eight.
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 Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Performer in a Drama Series in 1987.
Her additional television credits include "Playhouse 90," "The Twilight Zone" and "Perry Mason," all on CBS, "The Untouchables," "Maverick" and "Bracken's World."
An accomplished film and television actress, Cooper was born and raised in Taft, California. She attended the College of the Pacific and performed in the Civic Light Opera Company and Revue Theatre in Stockton before graduation from the Pasadena Playhouse School.
Her professional career began with the film "The Redhead from Wyoming," followed by "The Man from Alamo," "There Was a Crooked Man," "The Boston Strangler," "Tony Rome," "The All-American Boy," "The Glory Guys," "Kansas City Bomber" and "Let No Man Write My Epitaph." Cooper starred in the film "Tomorrow Man" and the telefilms "Gentle Ben" and "Gentle Ben 2: Danger on the Mountain." She had a starring role in the independent feature "Carpool Guy," directed by and starring Bernsen, and recently appeared in two films, "Three Day Test" and "Over the Hedge," which was produced by Bernsen's film company, Public Filmworks.
Additionally, she is the spokesperson for "No2Debt.com," 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 of eight.