Stockard Channing
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1944-02-13 (81 years old)
Place of Birth
Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
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).
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Known For
Acting
(2026)
Practical Magic 2
as Aunt Frances
(2022)
Angry Neighbors
as Chloe
(2021)
Death to 2021
as Penn Parker
(2017)
The Grease Story
as Betty Rizzo
(2014)
Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America
as Narrator
(2013)
Pulling Strings
as Virginia
(2011)
17th Precinct
as Detective Sergeant Mira Barkley
(2010)
Sundays at Tiffany's
as Vivian Claremont
(2010)
Multiple Sarcasms
as Pamela
(2009)
The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies
as Narrator (voice)
(2009)
(2007)
Sparkle
as Sheila
(2007)
Through Deaf Eyes
as Narrator
(2005)
Must Love Dogs
as Dolly
(2005)
3 Needles
as Olive Cowie
(2005)
Red Mercury
as Penelope
(2004)
Jack
as Anne
(2004)
Home of the Brave
as Narrator (voice)
(2004)
The Kennedy Mystique: Creating Camelot
as Narrator (voice)
(2003)
Anything Else
as Paula Chase
(2003)
Le Divorce
as Margeeve Walker
(2003)
Bright Young Things
as Mrs. Melrose Ape
(2003)
Abby Singer
as Stockard Channing (uncredited)
(2003)
Behind the Red Door
as Julia
(2003)
The Piano Man's Daughter
as Lily Kilworth
(2002)
Life or Something Like It
as Deborah Connors
(2002)
The Matthew Shepard Story
as Judy Shepard
(2002)
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
as Margarethe Fisher Van Den Meer
(2001)
When Billie Beat Bobby
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
(2001)
A Girl Thing
as Dr. Beth Noonan
(2001)
The Business of Strangers
as Julie Styron
(2001)
Out of the Closet, Off the Screen: The Life of William Haines
as Narrator (voice)
(2000)
Where the Heart Is
as Thelma 'Sister' Husband
(2000)
The Truth About Jane
as Janice
(2000)
Isn't She Great
as Florence Maybelle
(2000)
Other Voices
as Dr. Gover
(1999)
The Venice Project
as Chandra Chase
(1998)
Practical Magic
as Aunt Frances
(1998)
Twilight
as Lt. Verna Hollander
(1998)
The Baby Dance
as Rachel Luckman
(1998)
An Unexpected Life
as Barbara Whitney
(1997)
Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde
as Narrator (voice)
(1996)
The First Wives Club
as Cynthia Swann Griffin
(1996)
Up Close & Personal
as Marcia McGrath
(1996)
Moll Flanders
as Mrs. Allworthy
(1996)
The Prosecutors
as Ingrid Maynard
(1996)
Edie & Pen
as Pen
(1996)
Lily Dale
as Corella
(1996)
An Unexpected Family
as Barbara Whitney
(1995)
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
as Carol Ann
(1995)
Smoke
as Ruby McNutt
(1995)
Michael the Visitor
as Narrator (voice)
(1995)
Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree
as Miss Adelaide
(1994)
David's Mother
as Bea
(1993)
Six Degrees of Separation
as Ouisa
(1992)
Bitter Moon
as Beverly (uncredited)
(1992)
Lincoln
as Clara Harris (voice)
(1991)
Married to It
as Iris Morden
(1990)
Meet the Applegates
as Jane Applegate
(1989)
Perfect Witness
as Liz Sapperstein
(1989)
Staying Together
as Nancy Trainer
(1988)
A Time of Destiny
as Margaret
(1988)
Tidy Endings
as Marion
(1987)
Echoes in the Darkness
as Susan Reinert
(1987)
The Room Upstairs
as Leah Lazenby
(1986)
Heartburn
as Julie
(1986)
The Men's Club
as Nancy
(1985)
Not My Kid
as Helen Bower
(1983)
Without a Trace
as Jocelyn Norris
(1982)
Safari 3000
as J.J. Dalton
(1979)
Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story
as Kitty O'Neil
(1979)
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
as Mona Mondieu
(1978)
Grease
as Betty Rizzo
(1978)
The Cheap Detective
as Bess
(1978)
(1977)
Lucan
as Mickey MacElwaine
(1976)
The Big Bus
as Kitty Baxter
(1976)
Sweet Revenge
as Vurlla Kowsky
(1975)
The Fortune
as Freddie Bigard
(1975)
The Lion Roars Again
as Self
(1973)
The Girl Most Likely To...
as Miriam Knight
(1972)
Up the Sandbox
as Judy Stanley (uncredited)
(1971)
The Hospital
as E.R. Nurse (uncredited)