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