Stockard Channing

Born: 1944-02-13 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Known For: Acting

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.

Filmography

2026

Practical Magic 2 as Aunt Frances

2024

Knuckles as Wendy Whipple

2023

Maryland as Cathy

2022

Angry Neighbors as Chloe

2021

Death to 2021 as Penn Parker

2011

17th Precinct as Detective Sergeant Mira Barkley
Chautauqua: An American Narrative as Narrator (voice)

2010

Sundays at Tiffany's as Vivian Claremont
Multiple Sarcasms as Pamela

2009

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
The Good Wife as Veronica Loy
The Cleveland Show
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's as Self
The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies as Narrator (voice)

2007

Sparkle as Sheila
Through Deaf Eyes as Narrator

2006

Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman as Self

2005

Meerkat Manor as Narrator
Out of Practice as Dr. Lydia Barnes
Must Love Dogs as Dolly
3 Needles as Olive Cowie
Red Mercury as Penelope

2004

Jack as Anne
The Kennedy Mystique: Creating Camelot as Narrator (voice)
Home of the Brave as Narrator (voice)

2003

Hitler: The Rise of Evil as Klara Hitler
Le Divorce as Margeeve Walker
Anything Else as Paula Chase
Bright Young Things as Mrs. Melrose Ape
Abby Singer as Stockard Channing (uncredited)
Behind the Red Door as Julia
The Piano Man's Daughter as Lily Kilworth

2002

Life or Something Like It as Deborah Connors
The Matthew Shepard Story as Judy Shepard
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister as Margarethe Fisher Van Den Meer
New York Firefighters: The Brotherhood of September 11

2001

Walking with Beasts
A Girl Thing as Dr. Beth Noonan
When Billie Beat Bobby as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Business of Strangers as Julie Styron
Out of the Closet, Off the Screen: The Life of William Haines as Narrator (voice)
So You Want to Be President? as Narrator

2000

Where the Heart Is as Thelma 'Sister' Husband
Isn't She Great as Florence Maybelle
The Truth About Jane as Janice
Other Voices as Dr. Gover

1999

The West Wing as Abigail 'Abbey' Bartlet
Batman Beyond as Commissioner Barbara Gordon (voice)
Where Are They Now? as Self
The Venice Project as Chandra Chase

1998

Practical Magic as Aunt Frances
Twilight as Lt. Verna Hollander
The Baby Dance as Rachel Luckman
An Unexpected Life as Barbara Whitney

1997

King of the Hill as Mrs. Holloway (voice)
The View as Self
Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde as Narrator (voice)

1996

The First Wives Club as Cynthia Swann Griffin
Up Close & Personal as Marcia McGrath
Moll Flanders as Mrs. Allworthy
Edie & Pen as Pen
An Unexpected Family as Barbara Whitney
Lily Dale as Corella
The Prosecutors as Ingrid Maynard

1995

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar as Carol Ann
Smoke as Ruby McNutt
Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree as Miss Adelaide
Michael the Visitor as Narrator (voice)

1994

Inside the Actors Studio as Self
David's Mother as Bea

1993

Intimate Portrait as Self
Six Degrees of Separation as Ouisa

1992

Bitter Moon as Beverly (uncredited)
Lincoln as Clara Harris (voice)

1991

Married to It as Iris Morden

1990

Meet the Applegates as Jane Applegate

1989

Staying Together as Nancy Trainer
Perfect Witness as Liz Sapperstein

1988

A Time of Destiny as Margaret
Tidy Endings as Marion

1987

Echoes in the Darkness as Susan Reinert
The Room Upstairs as Leah Lazenby
Echoes in the Darkness as Susan Reinert

1986

Heartburn as Julie
The Men's Club as Nancy

1985

Not My Kid as Helen Bower

1983

Without a Trace as Jocelyn Norris

1982

Nature as Narrator (voice)
Safari 3000 as J.J. Dalton

1980

The Stockard Channing Show as Susan Goodenow

1979

Just Friends as Susan Hughes
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh as Mona Mondieu
Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story as Kitty O'Neil

1978

Grease as Betty Rizzo
The Cheap Detective as Bess
A Different Approach

1977

Lucan as Mickey MacElwaine

1976

The Big Bus as Kitty Baxter
Sweet Revenge as Vurlla Kowsky

1975

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self - Guest
The Fortune as Freddie Bigard
The Lion Roars Again as Self

1974

NOVA as Self - Bible Reader

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

Sesame Street as Mad Painter's Victim
Love, American Style as Marsha Sue
Medical Center

1962

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
The Merv Griffin Show as Self

1956

Tony Awards as Self - Winner

1953

The Oscars as Self

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame as Leah Lazenby

1944

Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee