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Stockard Channing

Stockard Channing

Acting
Born: Feb 13, 1944
From: Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Credits: 30 titles

Biography

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. 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). Description above from the …

Filmography

Title Character Year Rating
Death to 2021 Penn Parker 2021 5.959
Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America Narrator 2014
Multiple Sarcasms Pamela 2010 5.9
Sparkle Sheila 2007 5.7
Red Mercury Penelope 2005 5.333
3 Needles Olive Cowie 2005 5.95
Anything Else Paula Chase 2003 6.165
Bright Young Things Mrs. Melrose Ape 2003 6.266
The Matthew Shepard Story Judy Shepard 2002 5.574
Life or Something Like It Deborah Connors 2002 5.68
The Business of Strangers Julie Styron 2001 5.537
When Billie Beat Bobby Narrator (voice) (uncredited) 2001 5.412
Where the Heart Is Thelma 'Sister' Husband 2000 7.104
Practical Magic Aunt Frances 1998 6.775
Twilight Lt. Verna Hollander 1998 6.132
The First Wives Club Cynthia Swann Griffin 1996 6.709
Up Close & Personal Marcia McGrath 1996 6.278
Moll Flanders Mrs. Allworthy 1996 6.081
Smoke Ruby McNutt 1995 7.203
Six Degrees of Separation Ouisa 1993 6.418
Married to It Iris Morden 1991 6.0
Staying Together Nancy Trainer 1989 5.231
Heartburn Julie 1986 6.0
Without a Trace Jocelyn Norris 1983 5.283
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh Mona Mondieu 1979 5.679
Grease Betty Rizzo 1978 7.371
The Cheap Detective Bess 1978 6.35
The Big Bus Kitty Baxter 1976 5.332
The Fortune Freddie Bigard 1975 5.4
The Hospital E.R. Nurse (uncredited) 1971 6.611
Quick Facts
Known forActing
Credits30
Born1944
FromManhattan, New York …