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