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Jill Foster Abbott (formerly Chancellor, Thurston, Brooks, and Sterling) is a fictional character on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless. Much of her history on the series revolves around her long-running conflict with businesswoman Katherine Chancellor (Jeanne Cooper). Their feud is one of the longest rivalries on any American soap opera.
only original character remaining on The Young and the Restless from the series' debut in March 1973, Jill was originated by Brenda Dickson, who played the role for seven years and left in February 1, 1980.
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Jill Foster Abbott (formerly Chancellor, Thurston, Brooks, and Sterling) is a fictional character on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless. Much of her history on the series revolves around her long-running conflict with businesswoman Katherine Chancellor (Jeanne Cooper). Their feud is one of the longest rivalries on any American soap opera.
Casting and awards
The only original character remaining on The Young and the Restless from the series' debut in March 1973, Jill was originated by Brenda Dickson, who played the role for seven years and left in February 1, 1980. Bond Gideon played Jill briefly before Deborah Adair took over for three years. On June 24, 1983, Dickson returned, reprising the role until March 18, 1987, when she was replaced by Jess Walton. Continuing in the role to this day, Walton has portrayed Jill longer than all the previous actresses combined.
Walton won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1997 for Lead Actress in a Drama Series for playing Jill, and was nominated in 1996 and 2000. She also won the Daytime Emmy for Supporting Actress in 1991 after a nomination in 1990. Dickson won a Soap Opera Digest Award in 1988 for Outstanding Villainess for the role, and Walton won one for Outstanding Lead Actress in 1994.
Fictional character biography
When the series debuts Jill is working as a manicurist and a hairdresser. Later, she becomes friends with Katherine Chancellor (Jeanne Cooper) and is employed as her paid companion. Jill and Katherine's friendship turns to animosity as they fight over men, including Katherine's husband Phillip Chancellor II (Donnelly Rhodes). Jill and Phillip engage in sex resulting in a pregnancy. Phillip divorces Katherine and plans to marry Jill. While giving Phillip a ride in her car, Katherine begs him for a second chance. He refuses. She slams her foot down on the gas pedal and the car plunges off the road and over a cliff. Phillip is rushed to the hospital where, on his deathbed, he marries Jill.
The marriage is declared invalid thanks to Katherine who then kicks the Fosters out of the Chancellor Estate. She offers Jill $1 million in exchange for the baby she is carrying. Jill agrees in order to ensure a better life for the child. She later rejects the offer and has the money returned after giving birth to her son, Phillip Chancellor III in 1976.
The next man Jill and Katherine fight over is Derek Thurston (Joe LaDue). Gets Derek drunk and then marries him. Derek eventually falls in love with Jill, though, which nearly drives Katherine to suicide. Katherine convinces Derek to stay with her, albeit in a platonic relationship, for one year. Jill then becomes romantically involved with Stuart Brooks (Robert Colbert). After seducing him, she fakes a pregnancy and they plan to marry. She alters her plans when Derek tells her he wants her back. Jill wants him to prove himself to her and arranges to marry Derek and Stuart on the same night, in case Derek fail. As a result of Katherine's scheme to hold onto her husband, Jill ends up marrying Stuart instead. Derek decides to go back to Katherine.
Jill's marriage ends after Stuart finds out she was never pregnant. She attempts to reunite with Derek now that Katherine is presumed dead. Just before they marry, Katherine reveals she is still alive and Jill loses Derek again.
In 1980 Jill goes to work for Jabot Cosmetics. Jabot's owner, John Bartholomew Abbott, Sr., is impressed by Jill's abilities, and quickly promotes her to Head of Merchandising. Around that time, she meets Jack Abbott, John's son. John and Jill become romantically involved. They break up after she cheats on him with his son. She files a sexual harassment suit against Jack when he will not be with her and he has to pay a $10,000 settlement. John and Jill later reunite and marry. She cheats on him again with Jack. This time Katherine gets a hold of pictures of their tryst. She shows them to John, who then suffers a stroke. He divorces Jill.
Not long after, Jill is found in her shower, bleeding from a gunshot wound. The three main suspects are John, Jack, and Katherine. Jack finally confesses to the crime in order to prevent his affair with Jill from becoming public. The real culprit is Sven, a masseur at the Genoa City Hotel. He had been rejected by Jill earlier in the night, and after getting drunk stole the gun from Gina's Restaurant. Sven kidnaps Jill and locks her in a meat freezer. Jack comes to her rescue. Sven escapes to Mexico, but Jack is cleared of all charges.
Jill and Katherine fight over Jill's son, Phillip Chancellor III, who is now a teenager. Phillip turns to drinking. He fights his alcoholism with help from both Katherine and Jill, along with Christine Blair (Lauralee Bell). His drinking leads to engage in a one night stand with Nina Webster (Tricia Cast). Nina becomes pregnant with Phillip's child. Phillip later dies in a car crash while he was driving under the influence.
John and Jill reunite again and remarry. They have a son together named Billy Abbott. They later divorce again.
In 2003, Jill learns that Katherine, not Liz Foster, is her birth mother. In addition to being mortified to learn that she is the daughter of her sworn enemy, this revelation presents another crisis for Jill. For years, her son Billy Abbott and Katherine's granddaughter Mackenzie Browning had been in love, in a passionate but platonic relationship. However, the mother-daughter connection between Katherine and Jill means that Mackenzie and Billy are first cousins. Unaware that they are blood relatives, the young couple is married, while a paralyzed Katherine could do nothing but watch. A horrified Jill and John try to stop the wedding, but they are too late. Eventually, Jill informs the newlyweds of the shocking news before the marriage is consummated. Heartbroken, Billy and Mackenzie have their union annulled, and the two separately leave town. Jill helps her mother to recover and the two eventually resolve their differences.
In early 2007, Katherine uncovers repressed memories of kidnapping Phillip III years ago just after he was born and switching him with another baby. Jill refuses to believe this at first, DNA testing of Phillip III's remains confirms that he was not Jill's biological son. Her true biological son is revealed to be Ethan "Cane" Ashby (Daniel Goddard), an Australian national whose visa has expired and is fighting deportation. As the true Phillip III, he is a native-born American citizen and is thus permitted to remain in Genoa City. Cane soon forms a strong bond with Jill and Katherine.
Jill begins a romantic relationship with William Bardwell (Ted Shackelford), the District Attorney, who has just inherited a fortune from his late uncle. Gloria Fisher (Judith Chapman), who wants Will for his money, drugs Ji Min Kim (Eric Steinberg) and Jill with libido pills and arranges for William to walk in on them. A broken-hearted William eventually marries Gloria.
Jill and Ji Min develop genuine feelings for each other. Katherine is furious with Jill upon learning that her daughter is planning on eloping with Ji Min. Mrs. Chancellor offers him a bribe not to marry her daughter, but he declines. Ji Min Kim is murdered in September 2007 by David Chow, before he can marry Jill, which devastates her.
In 2008 Katherine retires as CEO of Chancellor Industries and makes Jill her successor. Jill feels that Katherine is constantly looking over her shoulder, and second-guessing her decisions. This is especially true when it comes to Chancellor subsidiary Jabot Cosmetic's new CEO, Nikki Newman. In October 2008, for the first time Jill has both her sons Cane and Billy at home. Billy does not like that Jill has made Cane CEO of Jabot over him. In November 2008 Katherine Chancellor is believed to have died in a car crash. However, the true victim is her look-a-like Marge.
Due to the Abbott Family and Jeff and Gloria Bardwell, Chancellor losses control of Jabot, resulting in the firings of Jill and Cane. Jill and Victor Newman formulate a plan to destroy Jack Abbott and return control of Jabot back to Chancellor Industries.
In 2009, her granddaughter, Cordelia Katherine Valentine Mitchell Abbott was born.
A DNA test was done with Jill in order to prove Katherine is alive (and not look-a-like Marge). However, the results showed Jill was not related to Katherine which questions whether Jill really is Katherine's biological daughter after all.
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