About
Stockard Channing
Overview
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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Known for
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| 2026 | Practical Magic 2 | Actor | Aunt Frances | N/A N/A |
| 2023 | Maryland | Actor | Cathy | 68 Fair |
| 2022 | Angry Neighbors | Actor | Chloe | 58 Average |
| 2021 | Death to 2021 | Actor | Penn Parker | 59 Average |
| 2017 | The Grease Story | Actor | Betty Rizzo | 59 Average |
| 2014 | Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2013 | Pulling Strings | Actor | Virginia | 60 Fair |
| 2011 | 17th Precinct | Actor | Detective Sergeant Mira Barkley | N/A N/A |
| 2010 | Sundays at Tiffany's | Actor | Vivian Claremont | 59 Average |
| 2010 | Multiple Sarcasms | Actor | Pamela | 58 Average |
| 2009 | Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2009 | The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2007 | Sparkle | Actor | Sheila | 59 Average |
| 2007 | Through Deaf Eyes | Actor | Narrator | 58 Average |
| 2005 | Out of Practice | Actor | Dr. Lydia Barnes | 70 Good |
| 2005 | 3 Needles | Actor | Olive Cowie | 59 Average |
| 2005 | Meerkat Manor | Actor | Narrator | 70 Good |
| 2005 | Must Love Dogs | Actor | Dolly | 58 Average |
| 2005 | Red Mercury | Actor | Penelope | 58 Average |
| 2004 | The Kennedy Mystique: Creating Camelot | Actor | Narrator (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 2004 | Jack | Actor | Anne | 58 Average |
| 2004 | Home of the Brave | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2003 | Christmas in Rockefeller Center | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2003 | Abby Singer | Actor | Stockard Channing (uncredited) | 58 Average |
| 2003 | Bright Young Things | Actor | Mrs. Melrose Ape | 59 Average |
| 2003 | The Piano Man's Daughter | Actor | Lily Kilworth | 60 Fair |
| 2003 | Anything Else | Actor | Paula Chase | 60 Fair |
| 2003 | Le Divorce | Actor | Margeeve Walker | 56 Average |
| 2003 | Hitler: The Rise of Evil | Actor | Klara Hitler | 59 Average |
| 2003 | Hitler: The Rise of Evil | Actor | Klara Hitler | 70 Good |
| 2003 | Behind the Red Door | Actor | Julia | 58 Average |
| 2002 | Life or Something Like It | Actor | Deborah Connors | 57 Average |
| 2002 | The Matthew Shepard Story | Actor | Judy Shepard | 58 Average |
| 2002 | Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister | Actor | Margarethe Fisher Van Den Meer | 58 Average |
| 2001 | Walking with Beasts | Actor | 73 Good |
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| 2001 | The Business of Strangers | Actor | Julie Styron | 58 Average |
| 2001 | Out of the Closet, Off the Screen: The Life of William Haines | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2001 | When Billie Beat Bobby | Actor | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 58 Average |
| 2001 | A Girl Thing | Actor | Dr. Beth Noonan | 58 Average |
| 2000 | The Truth About Jane | Actor | Janice | 59 Average |
| 2000 | Where the Heart Is | Actor | Thelma 'Sister' Husband | 65 Fair |
| 2000 | Isn't She Great | Actor | Florence Maybelle | 57 Average |
| 2000 | Other Voices | Actor | Dr. Gover | 58 Average |
| 1999 | The Venice Project | Actor | Chandra Chase | 58 Average |
| 1998 | Practical Magic | Actor | Aunt Frances | 65 Fair |
| 1998 | The Baby Dance | Actor | Rachel Luckman | 58 Average |
| 1998 | An Unexpected Life | Actor | Barbara Whitney | 58 Average |
| 1998 | Twilight | Actor | Lt. Verna Hollander | 59 Average |
| 1997 | Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde | Actor | Narrator (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 1996 | An Unexpected Family | Actor | Barbara Whitney | 58 Average |
| 1996 | The Prosecutors | Actor | Ingrid Maynard | N/A N/A |
| 1996 | The First Wives Club | Actor | Cynthia Swann Griffin | 63 Fair |
| 1996 | Moll Flanders | Actor | Mrs. Allworthy | 59 Average |
| 1996 | Lily Dale | Actor | Corella | 58 Average |
| 1996 | Edie & Pen | Actor | Pen | 58 Average |
| 1996 | Up Close & Personal | Actor | Marcia McGrath | 59 Average |
| 1995 | Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree | Actor | Miss Adelaide | 58 Average |
| 1995 | To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar | Actor | Carol Ann | 67 Fair |
| 1995 | Smoke | Actor | Ruby McNutt | 65 Fair |
| 1995 | Michael the Visitor | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 58 Average |
| 1994 | David's Mother | Actor | Bea | 59 Average |
| 1993 | Six Degrees of Separation | Actor | Ouisa | 60 Fair |
| 1992 | Lincoln | Actor | Clara Harris (voice) | 59 Average |
| 1992 | Bitter Moon | Actor | Beverly (uncredited) | 66 Fair |
| 1991 | Married to It | Actor | Iris Morden | 58 Average |
| 1990 | Meet the Applegates | Actor | Jane Applegate | 58 Average |
| 1989 | Staying Together | Actor | Nancy Trainer | 58 Average |
| 1989 | Perfect Witness | Actor | Liz Sapperstein | 58 Average |
| 1988 | Tidy Endings | Actor | Marion | 58 Average |
| 1988 | A Time of Destiny | Actor | Margaret | 58 Average |
| 1987 | Echoes in the Darkness | Actor | Susan Reinert | 59 Average |
| 1987 | Echoes in the Darkness | Actor | Susan Reinert | N/A N/A |
| 1987 | The Room Upstairs | Actor | Leah Lazenby | 58 Average |
| 1986 | The Men's Club | Actor | Nancy | 58 Average |
| 1986 | Heartburn | Actor | Julie | 59 Average |
| 1985 | Not My Kid | Actor | Helen Bower | 58 Average |
| 1983 | Without a Trace | Actor | Jocelyn Norris | 58 Average |
| 1982 | Safari 3000 | Actor | J.J. Dalton | 58 Average |
| 1980 | The Stockard Channing Show | Actor | Susan Goodenow | 69 Fair |
| 1979 | The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh | Actor | Mona Mondieu | 58 Average |
| 1979 | Stockard Channing: In Just Friends | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 1979 | Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story | Actor | Kitty O'Neil | 59 Average |
| 1978 | The Cheap Detective | Actor | Bess | 59 Average |
| 1978 | Grease | Actor | Betty Rizzo | 72 Good |
| 1978 | A Different Approach | Actor | 58 Average |
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| 1977 | Lucan | Actor | Mickey MacElwaine | N/A N/A |
| 1976 | The Big Bus | Actor | Kitty Baxter | 57 Average |
| 1976 | Sweet Revenge | Actor | Vurlla Kowsky | 59 Average |
| 1975 | The Fortune | Actor | Freddie Bigard | 58 Average |
| 1975 | The Lion Roars Again | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 1973 | The Girl Most Likely To... | Actor | Miriam Knight | 59 Average |
| 1972 | Up the Sandbox | Actor | Judy Stanley (uncredited) | 58 Average |
| 1971 | The Hospital | Actor | E.R. Nurse (uncredited) | 59 Average |