Stockard Channing
Actor
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).
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Filmography
Practical Magic
as Aunt Frances 1998
Bitter Moon
as Beverly (uncredited) 1992
The First Wives Club
as Cynthia Swann Griffin 1996
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
as Carol Ann 1995
Where the Heart Is
as Thelma 'Sister' Husband 2000
Anything Else
as Paula Chase 2003
Life or Something Like It
as Deborah Connors 2002
Smoke
as Ruby McNutt 1995
Must Love Dogs
as Dolly 2005
Six Degrees of Separation
as Ouisa 1993
Death to 2021
as Penn Parker 2021
Up Close & Personal
as Marcia McGrath 1996
Twilight
as Lt. Verna Hollander 1998
Heartburn
as Julie 1986
Le Divorce
as Margeeve Walker 2003
The Big Bus
as Kitty Baxter 1976