| Jennifer Brooks | |||||||||||
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| Dorothy Green as Jennifer Brooks | |||||||||||
| The Young and the Restless | |||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Dorothy Green | ||||||||||
| Duration | 1973-1977 | ||||||||||
| First appearance | March 26, 1973 | ||||||||||
| Last appearance | September 13, 1977 | ||||||||||
| Cause/reason | Died | ||||||||||
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| Family | Elizabeth Brooks (married into) | ||||||||||
| Alias(es) | Jennifer Elizabeth (birth name) | ||||||||||
| Gender | Female | ||||||||||
| Cause of death | Heart Attack | ||||||||||
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Jennifer Brooks (born Jennifer Elizabeth) was a fictional character on The Young and the Restless, portrayed by Dorothy Green from 1973 to 1977.
Biography[]
In 1973, Jennifer was married to Stuart Brooks, the affluent publisher of the Genoa City Chronicle. Together they had four daughters— Leslie , Lorie, Chris and Peggy. The Brooks Family was one of Genoa City’s two original core families. Leslie was a gifted pianist and the most reserved, Lorie the vivacious aspiring author, Chris a college student full of idealism, and Peggy the youngest, still in high school.
Jennifer was a devoted homemaker who centered her life around her husband and daughters, ensuring their home ran smoothly and warmly. When she learned that her daughter Chris had fallen for medical student Snapper Foster, she was delighted. Though Stuart distrusted Snapper’s ambition and later resented his affair with Sally McGuire, Jennifer admired the young man’s determination to rise above his family’s poverty. She was quietly pleased when Snapper proposed to Chris.
In 1974, Jennifer’s focus turned from Chris to Leslie when Leslie suffered a breakdown during a concert and disappeared. While Stuart searched desperately, Jennifer tried to keep their family together. Relief came when a doctor at a New York sanitarium recognized Leslie from a concert flyer. Reunited at last, Jennifer and Stuart moved their daughter to a private facility near Genoa City so she could recover under their care. After Leslie endured months of therapy, she returned to Genoa City healthy and renewed her relationship with Brad Eliot. Much to the Jennifer's delight, Brad proposed to Leslie and encouraged her to return to her concert career.
In 1975, Jennifer's own love life took an unexpected turn when Bruce Henderson came back into her life and talked Jennifer into leaving Stuart. As Jennifer was breaking the news to her daughters, Stuart suffered a heart attack.
Jennifer later got breast cancer and had a double mastectomy. She left Bruce and returned to Genoa City where she and Stuart reconciled. When Lorie started dating Bruce's son, Mark Henderson, Jennifer revealed to Lorie that Bruce was her biological father. Lorie discovered it was true and vowed to never forgive her mother, but she and her sisters kept Jennifer's secret for Stuart's sake. In 1977, Jennifer died of a heart attack in her sleep.
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