Jeanne Cooper won an Emmy in 2008 for best actress in a drama series. She played grande dame Katherine Chancellor for nearly four decades on the CBS soap opera “The Young and the Restless.” (Frederick M. Brown / Getty Images)
Ann B. Davis (1926-2014) -- The Emmy-winning actress played the housekeeper Alice on the “The Brady Bunch.” (ABC Photo Archives / ABC via Getty Images)
Actress Phyllis Frelich starred on Broadway in “Children of a Lesser God,” for which she won a Tony in 1980. After a long illness, Frelich has died at 70. (Justin Walters / Associated Press)
Kate O’Mara (1939-2014) -- British actress best known as Joan Collins’ TV sister in the 1980s prime-time soap “Dynasty.” (Gary Stone / Getty Images)
Elaine Stritch (1925-2014) -- The Tony Award-winning actress also portrayed Alec Baldwin’s mother in the NBC sitcom “30 Rock.” (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)
Susan Tyrrell, photographed in 1991, “always played these sort of battered, sensual, sexy, vulnerable women; sort of a beat-up Marilyn Monroe,” her “Fat City” co-star Stacy Keach said. (George Wilhelm / Los Angeles Times)
