Stockard Channing
Birthday: 1944-02-13 | Place of Birth: Manhattan, New York City, New York, USAStockard 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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Acting
Role
as Cathy
as Chloe
as Penn Parker
as Betty Rizzo
as Virginia
as Detective Sergeant Mira Barkley
as Narrator (voice)
as Pamela
as Sheila
as Vivian Claremont
as Narrator
as Olive Cowie
as Dolly
as Dr. Lydia Barnes
as Narrator
as Penelope
as Anne
as Mrs. Melrose Ape
as Narrator (voice)
as Julia
as Klara Hitler
as Lily Kilworth
as Margeeve Walker
as Paula Chase
as Deborah Connors
as Judy Shepard
as Margarethe Fisher Van Den Meer
