Stockard Channing
85 movies · 24 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Feb 13, 1944 (age 82)
- Place of birth
- Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
- Also known as
- Susan Antonia Williams Stockard
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.
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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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Stockard Channing: movies and TV shows
Acting (109)
- 2026 Practical Magic 2
as Aunt Frances
- 2024
- 2023
- 2022 Angry Neighbors
as Chloe
- 2021 Death to 2021
as Penn Parker
- 2017 The Grease Story
as Betty Rizzo
- 2017
- 2015
- 2015
- 2014
- 2014 Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America
as Narrator
- 2013 Pulling Strings
as Virginia
- 2011 17th Precinct
as Detective Sergeant Mira Barkley
- 2011 Chautauqua: An American Narrative
as Narrator (voice)
- 2010 Sundays at Tiffany's
as Vivian Claremont
- 2010 Multiple Sarcasms
as Pamela
- 2009
- 2009
- 2009 The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies
as Narrator (voice)
- 2007 Sparkle
as Sheila
- 2007 Through Deaf Eyes
as Narrator
- 2005
- 2005 3 Needles
as Olive Cowie
- 2005
- 2005 Must Love Dogs
as Dolly
- 2005 Red Mercury
as Penelope
- 2004 Batman Beyond: School Days and Spellbound
as Barbara Gordon (voice)
- 2004 The Kennedy Mystique: Creating Camelot
as Narrator (voice)
- 2004 Jack
as Anne
- 2004 Home of the Brave
as Narrator (voice)
- 2003 Abby Singer
as Stockard Channing (uncredited)
- 2003 Bright Young Things
as Mrs. Melrose Ape
- 2003 The Piano Man's Daughter
as Lily Kilworth
- 2003 Anything Else
as Paula Chase
- 2003 Le Divorce
as Margeeve Walker
- 2003
- 2003 Behind the Red Door
as Julia
- 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
- 2002
- 2001
- 2001 The Business of Strangers
as Julie Styron
- 2001 Out of the Closet, Off the Screen: The Life of William Haines
as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 When Billie Beat Bobby
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- 2001
- 2001 So You Want to Be President?
as Narrator
- 2000 The Truth About Jane
as Janice
- 2000 Where the Heart Is
as Thelma 'Sister' Husband
- 2000 Isn't She Great
as Florence Maybelle
- 2000 Other Voices
as Dr. Gover
- 1999
- 1999 The Venice Project
as Chandra Chase
- 1999
- 1998 Practical Magic
as Aunt Frances
- 1998 The Baby Dance
as Rachel Luckman
- 1998 An Unexpected Life
as Barbara Whitney
- 1998 Twilight
as Lt. Verna Hollander
- 1997 Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde
as Narrator (voice)
- 1997
- 1996 An Unexpected Family
as Barbara Whitney
- 1996 The Prosecutors
as Ingrid Maynard
- 1996 The First Wives Club
as Cynthia Swann Griffin
- 1996 Moll Flanders
as Mrs. Allworthy
- 1996 Lily Dale
as Corella
- 1996 Edie & Pen
as Pen
- 1996 Up Close & Personal
as Marcia McGrath
- 1995 Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree
as Miss Adelaide
- 1995 To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
as Carol Ann
- 1995 Smoke
as Ruby McNutt
- 1995 Michael the Visitor
as Narrator (voice)
- 1994 David's Mother
as Bea
- 1993 Six Degrees of Separation
as Ouisa
- 1992 Lincoln
as Clara Harris (voice)
- 1992 Bitter Moon
as Beverly (uncredited)
- 1991 Married to It
as Iris Morden
- 1990 Meet the Applegates
as Jane Applegate
- 1989 Staying Together
as Nancy Trainer
- 1989 Perfect Witness
as Liz Sapperstein
- 1988 Tidy Endings
as Marion
- 1988 A Time of Destiny
as Margaret
- 1987 Echoes in the Darkness
as Susan Reinert
- 1987
- 1987 The Room Upstairs
as Leah Lazenby
- 1986 The Men's Club
as Nancy
- 1986 Heartburn
as Julie
- 1985 Not My Kid
as Helen Bower
- 1983 Without a Trace
as Jocelyn Norris
- 1982
- 1982 Safari 3000
as J.J. Dalton
- 1982
- 1980
- 1979 The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
as Mona Mondieu
- 1979
- 1979 Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story
as Kitty O'Neil
- 1978 The Cheap Detective
as Bess
- 1978 Grease
as Rizzo
- 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
- 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)
- 1969
- 1969
- 1969
- 1951
Talk shows and appearances (18)
- 2017
- 2009 Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
1 episode
- 2009
- 2006
- 2006
- 2004
- 1999 Where Are They Now?
2 episodes
- 1997 The View
1 episode
- 1994 Inside the Actors Studio
1 episode
- 1993 Intimate Portrait
1 episode
- 1975 Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1 episode
- 1975
- 1974 NOVA
2 episodes
- 1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
2 episodes
- 1962 The Merv Griffin Show
1 episode
- 1956 Tony Awards
7 episodes
- 1953 The Oscars
1 episode
- 1944 Golden Globe Awards
3 episodes