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