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