Kate Linder

Kate Linder has portrayed Esther Valentine on CBS' The Young and the Restless since April, 1982. The popular daytime drama has been the #1 rated soap opera every week for over 30 years. In 2008, Linder received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Linder has a busy feature film career as well, she was in the feature films Hysteria, Erased, Miss Meadows, Garry Marshall's Mother's Day, Voice from the Stone and The Charnel House. Linder also co-stars in Charlie Matthau's upcoming feature, Book of Leah, Echo Boomers and Shriver. Linder has been the celebrity spokesperson for The ALS Association for over a decade since her late brother-in-law's initial diagnosis and is especially active with The ALS Association's Golden West Chapter. She has lobbied Congress on their behalf and won several of their national and state volunteer awards for her service. Linder was a longtime board member for SAG-AFTRA and a former two-time Governor of the Television Academy. She is active with countless char