
Stockard Channing
Known for department: Acting
Birthday: 1944-02-13
Place of birth: Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
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.
Known for

Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America
2014Narrator
Grease
1978Betty Rizzo
Smoke
1995Ruby McNutt
Where the Heart Is
2000Thelma 'Sister' Husband
Anything Else
2003Paula Chase
The First Wives Club
1996Cynthia Swann Griffin
Practical Magic
1998Aunt Frances
The Business of Strangers
2001Julie Styron
Six Degrees of Separation
1993Ouisa
Married to It
1991Iris Morden
Twilight
1998Lt. Verna Hollander
Up Close & Personal
1996Marcia McGrath
Heartburn
1986Julie
Staying Together
1989Nancy Trainer
The Cheap Detective
1978Bess
Death to 2021
2021Penn Parker
Sparkle
2007Sheila
Bright Young Things
2003Mrs. Melrose Ape
The Hospital
1971E.R. Nurse (uncredited)