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Stockard Channing

Stockard Channing

Actor · Born February 13, 1944 · Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

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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.

Acted in 94

2010s

  1. 2017

    The Grease Story

    Betty Rizzo

  2. 2015

    Behind Closed Doors with Natalie Morales

    Rizzo (archive footage) · 1 episode

  3. 2014
  4. 2013

    Pulling Strings

    Virginia

  5. 2011

    17th Precinct

    Detective Sergeant Mira Barkley

  6. 2010

2000s

  1. 2009
  2. 2007

    Sparkle

    Sheila

  3. 2005
  4. 3 Needles

    Olive Cowie

  5. Red Mercury

    Penelope

  6. 2004

    Batman Beyond: School Days and Spellbound

    Barbara Gordon (voice)

  7. 2003

    Abby Singer

    Stockard Channing (uncredited)

  8. The Piano Man's Daughter

    Lily Kilworth

  9. 2002
  10. The Matthew Shepard Story

    Judy Shepard

  11. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

    Margarethe Fisher Van Den Meer

  12. New York Firefighters: The Brotherhood of September 11

    Movie

  13. 2001

    Walking with Beasts

    TV

  14. The Business of Strangers

    Julie Styron

  15. A Girl Thing

    Dr. Beth Noonan · 4 episodes

  16. 2000
  17. Isn't She Great

    Florence Maybelle

  18. Other Voices

    Dr. Gover

1990s

  1. 1999
  2. The Venice Project

    Chandra Chase

  3. 1998
  4. The Baby Dance

    Rachel Luckman

  5. An Unexpected Life

    Barbara Whitney

  6. Twilight

    Lt. Verna Hollander

  7. 1997
  8. 1996

    An Unexpected Family

    Barbara Whitney

  9. The Prosecutors

    Ingrid Maynard

  10. Edie & Pen

    Pen

  11. 1995

    Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree

    Miss Adelaide

  12. 1994

    David's Mother

    Bea

  13. 1993
  14. 1992
  15. 1991
  16. 1990

    Meet the Applegates

    Jane Applegate

1980s

  1. 1989

    Staying Together

    Nancy Trainer

  2. Perfect Witness

    Liz Sapperstein

  3. 1988

    Tidy Endings

    Marion

  4. A Time of Destiny

    Margaret

  5. 1987

    Echoes in the Darkness

    Susan Reinert

  6. Echoes in the Darkness

    Susan Reinert · 2 episodes

  7. The Room Upstairs

    Leah Lazenby

  8. 1986
  9. 1985

    Not My Kid

    Helen Bower

  10. 1983

    Without a Trace

    Jocelyn Norris

  11. 1982
  12. Table Settings

    Movie

  13. 1980

    The Stockard Channing Show

    Susan Goodenow · 13 episodes

1970s

  1. 1979

    The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh

    Mona Mondieu

  2. Just Friends

    Susan Hughes · 11 episodes

  3. Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story

    Kitty O'Neil

  4. 1978
  5. A Different Approach

    Movie

  6. 1977

    Lucan

    Mickey MacElwaine

  7. 1976
  8. Sweet Revenge

    Vurlla Kowsky

  9. 1975
  10. 1973

    The Girl Most Likely To...

    Miriam Knight

  11. 1972
  12. 1971
Appearances26

2010s

  1. 2017
  2. 2014

    Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America

    Narrator

2000s

  1. 2009
  2. Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's

    Self

  3. The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies

    Narrator (voice)

  4. 2006

    The Time, the Place, the Motion: Remembering Grease

    Self – Betty Rizzo

  5. Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman

    Self

  6. 2005
  7. 2004

    Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!

    Self (uncredited)

  8. Home of the Brave

    Narrator (voice)

  9. 2001

    Out of the Closet, Off the Screen: The Life of William Haines

    Narrator (voice)

  10. So You Want to Be President?

    Narrator

1990s

  1. 1997
  2. Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde

    Narrator (voice)

  3. 1995

    Michael the Visitor

    Narrator (voice)

  4. 1994

    Inside the Actors Studio

    Self · 1 episode

  5. 1993