Julie Cooper
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Julie Cooper-Nichol is a fictional character on the FOX television series The O.C., played by Melinda Clarke.
Originally born in Riverside, Julie Cooper always imagined living the high life. Pregnant at 18 with her first daughter, Marissa Cooper, Jimmy Cooper did the honorable thing of marrying her. Later, she had a second daughter, Kaitlin.
When Jimmy stole money from his clients' trust funds, Julie soon divorced him, claiming she and her daughters deserved better. After dating Caleb Nichol, she was dumped by his daughter for him, and had a passionate love affair with her daughter's ex-boyfriend, Luke Ward. Once she married Caleb, she became the most powerful woman in Newport. Her husband made her CEO of his company, the Newport Group, and in order to give it a new look, Julie decided to launch a magazine, Newport Living.
Her fame would soon come back to haunt her, however, when her ex-lover Lance came back into her life. He threatened to release a copy of an adult video she had participated years earlier, if she did not give him $500,000. When her husband Caleb dismissed her concerns and didn't pay him, Lance released the tape at a party originally intended for the magazine launch.
Outraged and embarrassed, Caleb filed for divorce. According to the marriage agreement, Julie was entitled to a sum of 3 million dollars if and only if she had been married for a period of one year. When Caleb tried to file for the divorce the two had only been married for a period of 11 months and 27 days. In addition to the divorce, Caleb fired Julie as CEO of his company. This was done shortly after he received pictures of Julie kissing Lance at his motel. The timing of Caleb's attacks would essentially leave her with nothing from the marriage.
Left with the possibility of being out on the street with two daughters, Julie began to devise plans to secure her life and position. Lance had offered to kill Caleb, but Julie refused the offer knowing that neither of them were killers. When Caleb pushed her too far, Julie was forced to finish the job herself and attempted to give him an overdose of sleeping pills in his drink. But she found herself unable to go through with it. Minutes later, he died anyway because of a heart attack. By the end of the second season and start of the third, she seemed to be returning to a relationship with her ex-husband Jimmy. The reunion would prove ill-fated, as Jimmy's financial woes separated the two once again, effectively leaving Julie a widow.
As her eldest daughter's graduation approached, her youngest, Kaitlin, returned from boarding school and announced that she would be staying in Newport. Marissa had decided to spend the next year working with her father on a yacht, and they thought it would be better if Julie had at least one daughter to care for. As Marissa and Ryan were driving to the airport, a drunken Volchok - Marissa's ex-boyfriend - forced Ryan to lose control of his vehicle, thus leading to Marissa's death.
Julie currently lives in Dr Robert's mansion, moving there from a trailer park outside of Newport Beach - vastly different from where viewers first saw her. She is in the process of forming a new business venture with friend (and one-time stepdaughter) Kirsten Cohen. Her recent relationship with Dr. Neil Roberts has started a nascent romantic affair between the two that has lead to their engagement.
| The O.C. | ||
| Episode List | [Official Website] | ||
| Current Main Characters | Ryan Atwood | Kirsten Cohen | Sandy Cohen | Seth Cohen Julie Cooper | Kaitlin Cooper | Summer Roberts | Taylor Townsend | |
| Former Main Characters | Marissa Cooper (S1 - S3) | Jimmy Cooper (S1) | Luke Ward (S1) | Caleb Nichol (S2) | |
| Recurring Characters |
Dawn Atwood | Trey Atwood | Lance Baldwin | Rebecca Bloom Carter Buckley | Reed Carlson | Sophie Cohen | Theresa Diaz Lindsay Gardner | Johnny Harper | Alex Kelly | Charlotte Morgan Hailey Nichol | Matt Ramsey | Jess Sathers | Anna Stern Zach Stevens | Veronica Townsend | Oliver Trask | Kevin Volchok | |
| Places | Newport Beach, Orange County, California | |
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