Known For
Acting
Born
Feb 13, 1944
Place of Birth
Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Credits
126 titles
Stockard Channing
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 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
Filmography
Practical Magic 2
Aunt Frances
Knuckles
Wendy Whipple
Maryland
Cathy
Angry Neighbors
Chloe
Death to 2021
Penn Parker
The Grease Story
Betty Rizzo
The Guest Book
Jill
The Fabulous Allan Carr
Self (archive)
Behind Closed Doors with Natalie Morales
Rizzo (archive footage)
Difficult People
Bonnie Kessler
The Mysteries of Laura
Brenda Phillips
Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America
Narrator
Pulling Strings
Virginia
17th Precinct
Detective Sergeant Mira Barkley
Chautauqua: An American Narrative
Narrator (voice)
Sundays at Tiffany's
Vivian Claremont
Multiple Sarcasms
Pamela
The Cleveland Show
The Good Wife
Veronica Loy
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's
Self
The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies
Narrator (voice)
Sparkle
Sheila
Through Deaf Eyes
Narrator
The Time, the Place, the Motion: Remembering Grease
Self – Betty Rizzo
Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman
Self
Out of Practice
Dr. Lydia Barnes
3 Needles
Olive Cowie
Meerkat Manor
Narrator
Must Love Dogs
Dolly
Red Mercury
Penelope
The Kennedy Mystique: Creating Camelot
Narrator (voice)
Jack
Anne
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!
Self (uncredited)
Home of the Brave
Narrator (voice)
Abby Singer
Stockard Channing (uncredited)
Bright Young Things
Mrs. Melrose Ape
The Piano Man's Daughter
Lily Kilworth
Anything Else
Paula Chase
Le Divorce
Margeeve Walker
Hitler: The Rise of Evil
Klara Hitler
Behind the Red Door
Julia
Life or Something Like It
Deborah Connors
The Matthew Shepard Story
Judy Shepard
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Margarethe Fisher Van Den Meer
New York Firefighters: The Brotherhood of September 11
Walking with Beasts
The Business of Strangers
Julie Styron
Out of the Closet, Off the Screen: The Life of William Haines
Narrator (voice)
When Billie Beat Bobby
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)