Stockard Channing
Actor
- Born
- February 13, 1944 (age 82) · Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Stockard Channing (born Susan Antonia Williams Stockard; February 13, 1944) is an American actress. Her accolades include three Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, and a nomination for an Academy Award.
Channing played Betty Rizzo in the film Grease (1978) and First Lady Abbey Bartlet in the NBC television series The West Wing (1999–2006). She also originated the role of Ouisa Kittredge in the stage and film versions of Six Degrees of Separation; the 1993 film version earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.
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Channing won the 1985 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the Broadway revival of A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, and won Emmy Awards for The West Wing and The Matthew Shepard Story, both in 2002. She won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2005 for her role in Jack. Her film appearances include The Fortune (1975), The Big Bus (1976), The Cheap Detective (1978), Heartburn (1986), To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995), Up Close & Personal (1996), Practical Magic (1998), and Woody Allen's Anything Else (2003). She also played the recurring role of Veronica Loy on the CBS drama The Good Wife (2012–16).
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Known for
Grease
June 16, 1978
Practical Magic
October 16, 1998
Bitter Moon
September 2, 1992
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
September 8, 1995
The First Wives Club
September 20, 1996
Where the Heart Is
April 27, 2000
Anything Else
August 27, 2003
Life or Something Like It
April 24, 2002
Smoke
June 9, 1995
Must Love Dogs
July 21, 2005
Six Degrees of Separation
December 8, 1993
Death to 2021
December 27, 2021
Acting91
- 2026Practical Magic 2 as Franny
- 2022Angry Neighbors as Chloe
- 2021Death to 2021 as Penn Parker
- 2017The Grease Story as Betty Rizzo
- 2017The Fabulous Allan Carr as Self (archive footage)
- 2014Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America as Narrator
- 2013Pulling Strings as Virginia
- 201117th Precinct as Detective Sergeant Mira Barkley
- 2011Chautauqua: An American Narrative as Narrator (voice)
- 2010