Stockard Channing
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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 Wikipedia article Stockard Channing, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
Practical Magic 2 (2026)
as Aunt Frances
Practical Magic (1998)
as Aunt Frances
Grease (1978)
as Rizzo
Bitter Moon (1992)
as Beverly (uncredited)
The First Wives Club (1996)
as Cynthia Swann Griffin
Where the Heart Is (2000)
as Thelma 'Sister' Husband
Life or Something Like It (2002)
as Deborah Connors
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995)
as Carol Ann
Must Love Dogs (2005)
as Dolly
Up Close & Personal (1996)
as Marcia McGrath
Moll Flanders (1996)
as Mrs. Allworthy
Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
as Ouisa
Heartburn (1986)
as Julie
Sundays at Tiffany's (2010)
as Vivian Claremont
Anything Else (2003)
as Paula Chase
Death to 2021 (2021)
as Penn Parker
Le Divorce (2003)
as Margeeve Walker
Twilight (1998)
as Lt. Verna Hollander
Smoke (1995)
as Ruby McNutt
The Big Bus (1976)
as Kitty Baxter
Angry Neighbors (2022)
as Chloe
Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman (2006)
as Self
The Matthew Shepard Story (2002)
as Judy Shepard
Isn't She Great (2000)
as Florence Maybelle
The Hospital (1971)
as E.R. Nurse (uncredited)
The Cheap Detective (1978)
as Bess
The Girl Most Likely To... (1973)
as Miriam Knight
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979)
as Mona Mondieu
The Men's Club (1986)
as Nancy
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On! (2004)
as Self (uncredited)
The Fortune (1975)
as Freddie Bigard
Pulling Strings (2013)
as Virginia
Batman Beyond: School Days and Spellbound (2004)
as Barbara Gordon (voice)
Echoes in the Darkness (1987)
as Susan Reinert
When Billie Beat Bobby (2001)
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Meet the Applegates (1990)
as Jane Applegate
The Lion Roars Again (1975)
as Self
Edie & Pen (1996)
as Pen
Behind the Red Door (2003)
as Julia
The Truth About Jane (2000)
as Janice
Bright Young Things (2003)
as Mrs. Melrose Ape
The Fabulous Allan Carr (2017)
as Self (archive footage)
Lily Dale (1996)
as Corella
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (2002)
as Margarethe Fisher Van Den Meer
Jack (2004)
as Anne
The Business of Strangers (2001)
as Julie Styron
The Time, the Place, the Motion: Remembering Grease (2006)
as Self – Betty Rizzo
Up the Sandbox (1972)
as Judy Stanley (uncredited)
Abby Singer (2003)
as Stockard Channing (uncredited)
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's (2009)
as Self
The Piano Man's Daughter (2003)
as Lily Kilworth
A Time of Destiny (1988)
as Margaret
Without a Trace (1983)
as Jocelyn Norris
Table Settings (1982)
Actor
The Baby Dance (1998)
as Rachel Luckman
The Room Upstairs (1987)
as Leah Lazenby
Not My Kid (1985)
as Helen Bower
Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree (1995)
as Miss Adelaide
Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story (1979)
as Kitty O'Neil
Multiple Sarcasms (2010)
as Pamela
Married to It (1991)
as Iris Morden
Staying Together (1989)
as Nancy Trainer
Home of the Brave (2004)
as Narrator (voice)
Perfect Witness (1989)
as Liz Sapperstein
Out of the Closet, Off the Screen: The Life of William Haines (2001)
as Narrator (voice)
Lucan (1977)
as Mickey MacElwaine
Other Voices (2000)
as Dr. Gover
The Prosecutors (1996)
as Ingrid Maynard
Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde (1997)
as Narrator (voice)
3 Needles (2005)
as Olive Cowie
An Unexpected Life (1998)
as Barbara Whitney
So You Want to Be President? (2001)
as Narrator
David's Mother (1994)
as Bea
An Unexpected Family (1996)
as Barbara Whitney
A Different Approach (1978)
Actor
Lincoln (1992)
as Clara Harris (voice)
The Kennedy Mystique: Creating Camelot (2004)
as Narrator (voice)
Sweet Revenge (1976)
as Vurlla Kowsky
Tidy Endings (1988)
as Marion
The Venice Project (1999)
as Chandra Chase
Sparkle (2007)
as Sheila
Red Mercury (2005)
as Penelope
Michael the Visitor (1995)
as Narrator (voice)
The Grease Story (2017)
as Betty Rizzo
17th Precinct (2011)
as Detective Sergeant Mira Barkley
New York Firefighters: The Brotherhood of September 11 (2002)
Actor
The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies (2009)
as Narrator (voice)
Safari 3000 (1982)
as J.J. Dalton
Chautauqua: An American Narrative (2011)
as Narrator (voice)
Through Deaf Eyes (2007)
as Narrator
Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America (2014)
as Narrator