Katherine Chancellor's Photo Scrapbook | Played by Jeanne Cooper

Actress: Jeanne Cooper (1973-present)

Nicknames: Kay (by friends)
Mrs. C (by Esther Valentine)
Old Fossil (by Jill Foster Abbott)

Occupation: Owner of Chancellor Industries
Former Owner of Jabot Cosmetics
Former Legal Trustee for Forrester Creations

Spouse: Patrick Murphy


Past Marriages:

1. Gary Reynolds (deceased)
2. Phillip Robert Chancellor II (deceased)
3. Derek Thurston (divorced)
4. Rex Sterling (divorced; first time)
5. Rex Sterling (widowed; second time)

Relatives: Mackenzie Browning (grandaughter)

Children: Brock Reynolds (son with Gary)
Unknown (daughter with Arthur)

Friends: Nikki Newman, Amber Moore, Victor Newman

Enemies: Jill Foster Abbott

Her reputation in town: A loved, well-respected business woman.

Most memorable scenes: Having a real face-lift on television, killing Phillip when she drove off a cliff in a drunken rage, switched Jill's baby at birth

Unforgettable lines: "Jill...pack your things! And get out!"

Defining episodes: Had psychic, Sylvia Brown, come to Genoa City to help her remember that she had switched Jill's baby at birth, her on-air face lift, her many fights with daughter, Jill Foster Abbott.

Young and Restless character history

Katherine (or Kay to her closest friends) is a wealthy pillar of the Genoa City community. She owns Chancellor Industries and, through that, also owns Jabot Cosmetics. Kay's net worth is estimated to be over a billion dollars. She is widely considered the grande dame and matriarch of Genoa City.

Katherine has two children, Brock Reynolds and Jill Foster Abbott. Brock is Katherine's oldest child, with her ex-husband Gary Reynolds. Brock was briefly married to to his half-sister, Jill, before they knew they were related.

Jill is Katherine's daughter with ex-flame Arthur Hendricks. Jill and Katherine have spent most of their time on the show feuding with each other.

Kay's rivalry with Jill has been a key plot element since the 1970's, when Jill had an affair with Kay's then-husband, Phillip Chancellor II, resulting in Jill becoming pregnant with his son. Phillip subsequently died from injuries related to a car crash caused by a drunken Kay (she was presumed dead but was then found to be alive in the crash); however, he married Jill on his deathbed. After Phillip's death, Kay moved to have Phillip's marriage to Jill declared invalid (Kay had been drunk when she signed divorce papers), putting Jill and Kay at odds from that moment on. After years of torment from Kay, Jill turned the tables on her in 1999 when she discovered a letter penned by the now-deceased Phillip, naming Jill as the sole owner of the Chancellor Estate. Jill evicted Kay, who then found a legal loophole which resulted in Kay and Jill being forced to live at the Estate together.

Kay and Jill were mortified when, in 2003, they discovered that they were in fact mother and daughter. The revelation caused Kay to have a stroke. Yet there was a greater sadness attached to this newly-revealed family connection. For years, Jill's son Billy and Kay's granddaughter Mackenzie Browning had been in love. Finally, the two were married. However, the mother-daughter connection between Kay and Jill meant that Mackenzie and Billy were first cousins. A horrified Jill managed to inform the newlyweds of the shocking news before the marriage was consummated. Heartbroken, Billy and Mackenzie had their union annulled, and the two separately left town. Jill helped her mother to recover and the two eventually resolved their differences.

Despite several obstacles along the way, the two former enemies have begun to form a true mother-daughter bond. Nevertheless, their feud was decades old. It remains to be seen if Kay and Jill can continue to be cordial, but recent events have caused their deeply-rooted enmity for one another to resurface. Kay began to have disturbing nightmares involving a baby. She soon determined that they were actually fragments of a repressed memory. Eventually Kay recalled that years ago - unable to accept the fact that Jill had given birth to a child with her deceased husband Phillip - she kidnapped the baby, and gave him to another woman, who was to place the child with a different family. The woman then gave Kay a different baby that Jill raised as her son Phillip Chancellor III. While Jill adamantly refused to believe this at first, DNA testing of Phillip's remains confirmed that he was not Jill's biological son. It was then revealed that Jill's real son was, in fact, new-in-town Cane Ashby, who had recently married Amber Moore. Cane divorced Amber after discovering she had married him for his money. Kay, however, formed a bond with Amber after being trapped with her under the Clear Springs wreckage in October 2007.

Katherine was furious upon learning her daughter Jill was planning on eloping with Ji Min. She offered Ji Min a bribe not to marry her daughter, but Ji Min declined. He was murdered shortly after and the investigation is still ongoing.

On January 25, 2008, she collapsed while talking to Amber. She was then examined at her home by her physician and he delivered her the news on January 30, 2008 that she had a mini-stroke. She decided to retire, leaving Chancellor Industries to Jill, and Jabot Cosmetics to Nikki Newman.

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