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Full detailed profile on Katherine Chancellor Played by Jeanne Cooper on The Young and the Restless Daytime Soap Opera.
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Katherine Chancellor
Actor: Jeanne Cooper Who played Katherine Chancellor over the yearsJeanne Cooper (1973 - present) Useful information on Katherine Chancellor* Resides at the Chancellor Estate at 12 Foothill Road. |
CURRENT & PAST OCCUPATION
Current: Owner of Chancellor Industries
KATHERINE CHANCELLOR'S HISTORY
Katherine Chancellor appeared in 1973 as the wife of Chancellor Industries mogul Phillip Chancellor II. After years of feeling neglected, Katherine became an alcoholic and had repeated affairs with the help. After Kay met Jill Foster at the salon she frequented, she hired Jill to become her paid companion. Although Jill tried everything to pull Kay out of the depths of the bottle, it wasn't until Katherine found out that Jill and her husband were having an affair that she sought help. She then encouraged her son Brock to propose to Jill in order to pull her away from Phillip. However, Jill found out that she was pregnant with Phillip's child and had her marriage to Brock annulled without consummation.
When Kay refused to give Phillip a divorce, he set off to the Dominican Republic and obtained it himself. However, tragedy struck after a drunken Kay met Phillip at the airport. During the ride home, Katherine became furious when Phillip continued to push her away and ended up losing control of the car causing it to sail off of a cliff! On his deathbed, Phillip and Jill married just before he passed. From that moment forward, Kay and Jill were brutal enemies.
Katherine's next true love came after Jill hired a bum to seduce Kay, but the plan backfired when Rex Sterling, Danny Romalotti's father, really fell in love with Kay! However their love story didn't last� After Katherine's lifelong friend and maid, Esther Valentine, fell in love with a conman, Rex came upon Norman Peterson robbing Kay's safe and Norma shot Rex dead! Kay was devastated but managed to forgive Esther for bringing Norman into their lives.
Katherine's next challenge arrived after Jill found Phillip's will stating that he wanted Jill to have the Chancellor Estate! Although Kay didn't lose the property, Jill was awarded half of everything and moved into the estate, which sent Kay back to the bottle and on the hunt to find herself.
Emotionally devastated, Katherine was found wandering the streets of Genoa City by runaway Mackenzie Browning. Mac brought Kay to the GC homeless shelter and the two became close friends. After Mac shared a letter with Kay from her dad, a man Mac had never met, Katherine realized that Brock had written it and that Mac was her granddaughter! Finally having someone to live for, Kay brought Mac back to the mansion, managed to get word to Brock, and worked hard to put her new family together.
Her world took a traumatic turn in 2003, when Kay found out that Jill was her biological daughter! Not able to deal with the stress of the new revelation or with Jill's animosity that Kay had thrown her away at birth, Katherine hit the bottle again. Even though her family confronted her with an intervention, it wasn't until Kay had a dream about Rex returning from the dead to help her that Katherine finally admitted herself into a rehab to get well.
In late 2006, Katherine threw herself back into the corporate world when she bought Jabot Cosmetics just as the company was about to go belly up. Unbeknownst to her, she ended up selling the company to the House of Kim without knowing that Jack was the secret owner! Shortly after, Katherine lost her lifelong friend John Abbott to a stroke. After her grandson Billy, Jill's son, returned to GC for John's funeral, Katherine and Jill seemed to be at each other's throats. To make things worse, Kay found out that Billy had a gambling addiction and thought it best to send him off to work for the House of Kim in Hong Kong. With the help of Jack, Billy moved overseas and Jill blamed Kay for pushing him away.
During the fall of 2006, Katherine began to have nightmares about a baby exchanging hands. Thinking they had something to do with Jill as a baby, Kay and Jill had a DNA test for fear that Jill wasn't really her daughter, but the test proved that the two were mother and daughter giving them both much relief. However, the nightmares didn't stop and after taking part in a reading with world-renowned psychic Silvia Browne, Katherine put the clues together and realized that, in a drunken rage of jealousy, years and years ago, Kay had switched Jill's baby at birth, not wanting her to have anything that belonged to her beloved Phillip.
With nothing more that the knowledge that Katherine had given the child to a woman named 'Violet,' along with a very large, very exquisite diamond ring, she went on the hunt to locate her daughter's real son and make up for the mistake that threatened to ruin Jill and Kay's relationship for good! Cane arrived in Genoa City looking for his biological mother and was found to be Jill's real son.
Katherine let Jill takeover the reigns at Chancellor after experiencing heart trouble. She began to write her memoirs with the help of Amber Moore. When on her way to drive Marge Cotroke to a rehab facility, they were in a car crash. Marge died, but everyone thought it was Katherine, who had really been taken in by the kindly Murphy. Katherine and Murphy fell in love, and when it was proven by DNA that she was alive, and that Jill was not her biological daughter, she finally returned home to plan her wedding to Murphy!
PAST MARRIAGES
Gary Reynolds (deceased)
Phillip Chancellor II (deceased)
Derek Thurston (divorced)
Brian Romalotti (AKA - Rex Sterling - divorced - first time)
Brian Romalotti (AKA - Rex Sterling - widowed - second time)
FLINGS & RELATIONSHIPS
John_Abbott (deceased)
Arthur Hendricks
Douglas Austin
Felipe Ramirez
Jerry Cashman (deceased)
Brent Davis (deceased)
Mitchell Sherman
Arthur Hendricks
Patrick Murphy
RELATIVES
None
CHILDREN
Brock Reynolds (son with Gary)
Mackenzie Browning (granddaughter)
PICTURES
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RELATED DAILY UPDATES
Tuesday, November 24 2009: A Whack Thanksgiving!
Pearl arrives at the Chancellor Estate with eats from Joe Jr. for Thanksgiving. Katherine and Murphy greet her, and Nina, Chloe, and Chance are in the living room. Chance tells Nina that he received an email from Phillip telling him he arrived safely. Billy arrives and notes that he's hoping the football game will take his mind off his screwed-up life. Jill greets him, and Chloe remarks that the game may not do the trick as Mackenzie appears in the doorway. Chance and Chloe, followed by Nina leave the room. Mac tells Billy that she's working at the shelter today. Billy says he's headed to Jack's house later. Mac answers the phone and calls Chance - it's Phillip! Everyone gathers round the receiver to shout 'Happy Thanksgiving'!
The doorbell at the Chancellor Estate rings and Jill answers - it's Paul. He tells her that someone has gone to great lengths to make sure they can't find Charlotte. Katherine appears and Jill blurts that her date is here, indicating Paul! They all go into the living room, where Murphy and Katherine hold court and toast to being thankful for one another. Jill raises her glass to the loved ones who came back to them this year. Chance says he's thankful for seeing his mom, meeting his dad, and for meeting Chloe and Delia too. Billy says that Delia is his daughter - and the only thing he's thankful for! Chloe tells him he could still have Mac if he'd appreciate what she's doing in bringing the baby into the world. Clueless Jill wants to know what she's talking about. Chloe says she thought everyone knew! Jill asks if Cane and Lily asked Mac, or if she offered. Billy won't discuss it, saying he's going to Jack's!
Katherine seeks out Mackenzie in the Chancellor house and tells her Chloe really didn't know that Jill was unaware of her decision. Mac muses that every time she makes a decision regarding this surrogacy something happens to make her second guess her choices. Katherine assures her that what she's doing is wonderful. Katherine walks out of the room and sees Paul leaving. She wonders what he's doing with Jill - she's sure no Nikki! He continues to leave until another voice stops him - Nina demands to know what he's up to!
Jill steps into the other room with Katherine and asks how she can support Cane in this baby scenario when she sees what it's doing to Billy?
Monday, November 23 2009: To Me, That's Not What It Is!
At the Club, Jack listens to the phone message from Nick which says their deal isn't going to happen. Katherine comes down the stairs and stops to dial her own phone. She calls Nick and asks him to meet her regarding business.
Nick and Katherine sit in the dining room at the Club. She tells him about the plan for Chancellor to go public, and says that the Newman family is at the top of her list of investors. Nick is honored. Katherine notes that not everyone is invited to join in on this. They discuss the implications with the SEC, and Kay compliments him on the way he handled the Caymans bank thing. Nick thanks Kay for the opportunity, saying he'll spread the word to the other Newmans. Katherine heads out, just as Adam walks in. Nick and Adam exchange a few barbs, and Nick mentions he was at a business meeting. Adam asks if it's anything he should know about. Nick says no, and leaves.
Katherine gets home and enthusiastically greets Murphy who is back from catching fish. Chloe comes into the room and jokes with Murphy that two little eyes were looking out at her from beside the ice cream! He goes off to shower, and Chloe discusses Billy and Mac's breakup with Katherine. She says that Chance thought her reaction was inappropriate and now she's probably getting dumped too. Katherine tells her that her flippant attitude is the source of her problems with Chance - she uses it to hide from him. Chloe notes that she's been doting on Chance all week. Kay says that was until Billy came along - she asks her what she really wants?! Katherine says Chance may be in love with her, but he demands total honesty from her. Katherine says it's sad for her to use sarcasm to hide from the one thing she really wants.
Murphy comes into the Chancellor living room after Chloe has gone. He sits down with Katherine and they discuss Phillip leaving. Kay muses that Chance admires him for what he's doing. They discuss Chance and Chloe. Murphy says some girls always go for the bad boy. Kay laughs and says she used to be one of them! Murphy doesn't get it. Katherine says it's just the feeling of being needed, or of feeling superior to the person you're with. Murphy asks if Katherine's younger self would have fallen for him. She says sadly she wouldn't have - it's experience that taught her to recognize the right man for her. They head upstairs.
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