Katherine Chancellor
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Katherine 'Kay' Shepard Reynolds Chancellor Thurston Sterling Sterling is a fictional character on CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless. Actress Jeanne Cooper has played the part since 1973, making her the show's longest-serving cast member.
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Katherine (aka Kay) is a wealthy pillar of the Genoa City community. She owns Chancellor Industries, is the mother of Brock Reynolds (Beau Kazer) and the grandmother of Mackenzie Browning (Rachel Kimsey). Kay Chancellor is widely considered the Grande Dame and Matriarch of Genoa City.
Kay's rivalry with Jill Foster Abbott (Jess Walton) has been a key plot element since the 1970s, when Jill had an affair with Kay's then-husband, Phillip Chancellor II (Donnelly Rhodes), resulting in Jill becoming pregnant with his child. Phillip subsequently died in a car crash caused by a drunken Kay, 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. Jill helped her mother to recover and the two eventually resolved their differences.
Kay, along with Jill, are the only two original characters left from the show's early years.
