Stockard Channing
Known for
Acting
Born
February 13, 1944 (age 82)
Birthplace
Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Biography
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 She...
Best known work
Grease
1978
Practical Magic
1998
Bitter Moon
1992
The First Wives Club
1996
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
1995
Where the Heart Is
2000
The Good Wife
2009
King of the Hill
1997
Anything Else
2003
Life or Something Like It
2002Filmography
2026
Practical Magic 2as Aunt Frances
2024
2023
2022
Angry Neighborsas Chloe
2021
Death to 2021as Penn Parker
2017
The Grease Storyas Betty Rizzo
2017
2017
The Fabulous Allan Carras Self (archive footage)
2015
2015
2014
2014
Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing Americaas Narrator
2013
Pulling Stringsas Virginia
2011
17th Precinctas Detective Sergeant Mira Barkley
2011
Chautauqua: An American Narrativeas Narrator (voice)
2010
Sundays at Tiffany'sas Vivian Claremont
2010
Multiple Sarcasmsas Pamela
2009
2009
2009
2009
2009
The Incredible Journey of the Butterfliesas Narrator (voice)
2007
Sparkleas Sheila
2007
Through Deaf Eyesas Narrator
2006
The Time, the Place, the Motion: Remembering Greaseas Self – Betty Rizzo