Jeanne Cooper Dies "Young and Restless" - The Miami Herald

class=”dateline”> LOS ANGELES – Jeanne Cooper, the TV star who played Katherine Chancellor for nearly four decades in the drama series “The Young and the Restless” has died . He was 84.

Cooper died Wednesday morning in his sleep, wrote his son, actor Corbin Bernsen, on Facebook. The family confirmed the death to CBS, according to a spokeswoman for the channel.

Bernsen wrote on Twitter on April 12 her mother faced “an uphill battle” for an undisclosed illness. In the following days wrote that he had improved and said he had removed the equipment that helped her breathe.

On Wednesday wrote that his mother continued as a warrior to the end: “It has been a pioneer all his life, that example, the boxer with whom I recently spoke. fought 12 rounds and a unanimous decision … won “.

Cooper entered

daytime series six months after its release in 1973, winning the title of the cast member with the most durable paper. Her role earned 11 Daytime Emmy nominations and a trophy for Best Actress in a Drama Series in 2008.

“God is witness that was a big part of my life,” he told The Associated Press in March when “Young and the Restless” on CBS, celebrated its 40th anniversary.

As the years passed, Cooper ideas forgot to leave the program and its fictional town of Genoa in Wisconsin.

“What would I do, I’m not good with crochet and my fingers would bleed,” he told the AP in September, when he was about to turn 84.

Cooper was born in the village of Taft in California in 1928. He began his career in 1953 with the film “The Redhead from Wyoming” starring Maureen O’Hara. His other film credits include “The Boston Strangler” in 1968 with Tony Curtis and “Tony Rome” with Frank Sinatra in 1967.

her television career participated in shows like “The Adventures of Kit Carson” in 1953, “The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse” in 1954 and “Bracken’s World” in 1969.

But his role as “The Young and the Restless” was the one who became a TV star intimately familiar to the public.

1984 coooper plastic surgery was done in the face in the program was broadcast in an episode in which her character also performed surgery. Cooper regretted not include it.

“opened the topic of reconstructive surgery for many people, for young people to do things,” he said. “Even now people come up to me to say ‘thank you very much for doing so. My mom or I have operated and is not just a cosmetic surgery.” That was an amazing experience in my life. “

Cooper’s marriage ended in divorce Harry Bernsen. The couple had three sons, Corbin, Caren and Collin, who survive the actress as his eight grandchildren.