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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 She…
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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.
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Stockard Channing's Filmography
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Practical Magic 2
as Franny
Angry Neighbors
as Chloe
Death to 2021
as Penn Parker
The Grease Story
as Betty Rizzo
The Fabulous Allan Carr
as Self (archive footage)
Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America
as Narrator
Pulling Strings
as Virginia
17th Precinct
as Detective Sergeant Mira Barkley
No Poster
Chautauqua: An American Narrative
as Narrator (voice)
Sundays at Tiffany's
as Vivian Claremont
Multiple Sarcasms
as Pamela
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's
as Self
The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies
as Narrator (voice)
Sparkle
as Sheila
No Poster
Through Deaf Eyes
as Narrator
The Time, the Place, the Motion: Remembering Grease
as Self – Betty Rizzo
Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman
as Self
3 Needles
as Olive Cowie
Must Love Dogs
as Dolly
Red Mercury
as Penelope
Batman Beyond: School Days and Spellbound
as Barbara Gordon (voice)
No Poster
The Kennedy Mystique: Creating Camelot
as Narrator (voice)
Jack
as Anne
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!
as Self (uncredited)
Home of the Brave
as Narrator (voice)
Abby Singer
as Stockard Channing (uncredited)
Bright Young Things
as Mrs. Melrose Ape
The Piano Man's Daughter
as Lily Kilworth
Anything Else
as Paula Chase
Le Divorce
as Margeeve Walker
Behind the Red Door
as Julia
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
The Business of Strangers
as Julie Styron
Out of the Closet, Off the Screen: The Life of William Haines
as Narrator (voice)
When Billie Beat Bobby
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
So You Want to Be President?
as Narrator
The Truth About Jane
as Janice
Where the Heart Is
as Thelma 'Sister' Husband
Isn't She Great
as Florence Maybelle
Other Voices
as Dr. Gover
The Venice Project
as Chandra Chase
Practical Magic
as Aunt Frances
The Baby Dance
as Rachel Luckman
An Unexpected Life
as Barbara Whitney
Twilight
as Lt. Verna Hollander
Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde
as Narrator (voice)
An Unexpected Family
as Barbara Whitney
The Prosecutors
as Ingrid Maynard
The First Wives Club
as Cynthia Swann Griffin
Moll Flanders
as Mrs. Allworthy
Lily Dale
as Corella
Edie & Pen
as Pen
Up Close & Personal
as Marcia McGrath
Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree
as Miss Adelaide
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
as Carol Ann
Smoke
as Ruby McNutt
Michael the Visitor
as Narrator (voice)
David's Mother
as Bea
Six Degrees of Separation
as Ouisa
No Poster
Lincoln
as Clara Harris (voice)
Bitter Moon
as Beverly (uncredited)
Married to It
as Iris Morden
Meet the Applegates
as Jane Applegate
Staying Together
as Nancy Trainer
Perfect Witness
as Liz Sapperstein
Tidy Endings
as Marion
A Time of Destiny
as Margaret
Echoes in the Darkness
as Susan Reinert
The Room Upstairs
as Leah Lazenby
The Men's Club
as Nancy
Heartburn
as Julie
Not My Kid
as Helen Bower
Without a Trace
as Jocelyn Norris
Safari 3000
as J.J. Dalton
Table Settings
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
as Mona Mondieu
Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story
as Kitty O'Neil
The Cheap Detective
as Bess
Grease
as Rizzo
A Different Approach
Lucan
as Mickey MacElwaine
The Big Bus
as Kitty Baxter
Sweet Revenge
as Vurlla Kowsky
The Fortune
as Freddie Bigard
No Poster
The Lion Roars Again
as Self
The Girl Most Likely To...
as Miriam Knight
Up the Sandbox
as Judy Stanley (uncredited)
The Hospital
as E.R. Nurse (uncredited)