Stockard Channing

Feb 13, 1944 (81 years old) in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Stockard Channing (born Susan Antonia Williams Stockard) is an American stage, film and television actress. She is known for her roles as First Lady Abbey Bartlet on the NBC television series The West Wing; Betty Rizzo in the film Grease; Aunt Frances in Practical Magic, Cynthia Swann Griffin in The First Wives Club, Dolly in Must Love Dogs, and Ouisa Kittredge in both the stage and fim versions of Six Degrees of Separation - the film version earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

She also starred as Susan Goodenow in the actor-titled series The Stockard Channing Show, and as Mickey MacElwaine in both the movie and TV series Lucan.

Known For

NOVA

Self - Bible Reader

King of the Hill

Mrs. Holloway (voice)

Love, American Style

Marsha Sue

Sesame Street

Mad Painter's Victim

The West Wing

Abbey Bartlet

The Good Wife

Veronica Loy

Intimate Portrait

Self

Nature

Narrator (voice)

Tony Awards

Self - Nominee/Performer

Medical Center

Credits

Knuckles 2024

Wendy Whipple

★ 7.4
Maryland 2023

Cathy

★ 6.5
Angry Neighbors 2022

Chloe

★ 4.2
Death to 2021 2021

Penn Parker

★ 6
The Grease Story 2017

Betty Rizzo

★ 8.4
The Guest Book 2017

Jill

★ 7
Behind Closed Doors with Natalie Morales 2015

Rizzo (archive footage)

★ 9
The Mysteries of Laura 2014

Brenda Phillips

★ 7.2
Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America 2014

Narrator

★ NR
Pulling Strings 2013

Virginia

★ 6.9
17th Precinct 2011

Detective Sergeant Mira Barkley

★ 4
Sundays at Tiffany's 2010

Vivian Claremont

★ 6.5
Multiple Sarcasms 2010

Pamela

★ 6.1
The Cleveland Show 2009

★ 5.9
The Good Wife 2009

Veronica Loy

★ 7.6
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's 2009

Self

★ 8
The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies 2009

Narrator (voice)

★ 5.2
Sparkle 2007

Sheila

★ 5.9
Through Deaf Eyes 2007

Narrator

★ 7
Out of Practice 2005

Dr. Lydia Barnes

★ 7.6
3 Needles 2005

Olive Cowie

★ 6.3
Meerkat Manor 2005

Narrator

★ 7.5
Must Love Dogs 2005

Dolly

★ 5.9
Red Mercury 2005

Penelope

★ 4
The Kennedy Mystique: Creating Camelot 2004

Narrator (voice)

★ 1
Jack 2004

Anne

★ 4.9
Home of the Brave 2004

Narrator (voice)

★ 10
Abby Singer 2003

Stockard Channing (uncredited)

★ 4.5
Bright Young Things 2003

Mrs. Melrose Ape

★ 6.3
The Piano Man's Daughter 2003

Lily Kilworth

★ NR
Anything Else 2003

Paula Chase

★ 6.2
Le Divorce 2003

Margeeve Walker

★ 5
Hitler: The Rise of Evil 2003

Klara Hitler

★ 7.1
Behind the Red Door 2003

Julia

★ 5.7
Life or Something Like It 2002

Deborah Connors

★ 5.7
The Matthew Shepard Story 2002

Judy Shepard

★ 5.8
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister 2002

Margarethe Fisher Van Den Meer

★ 6.4
Walking with Beasts 2001

★ 7.8
The Business of Strangers 2001

Julie Styron

★ 5.7
Out of the Closet, Off the Screen: The Life of William Haines 2001

Narrator (voice)

★ 5.8
When Billie Beat Bobby 2001

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

★ 5.5
A Girl Thing 2001

Dr. Beth Noonan

★ 4.2
The Truth About Jane 2000

Janice

★ 6.3
Where the Heart Is 2000

Thelma 'Sister' Husband

★ 7.1
Isn't She Great 2000

Florence Maybelle

★ 4.8
Other Voices 2000

Dr. Gover

★ 3.6
The West Wing 1999

Abbey Bartlet

★ 8.3
The Venice Project 1999

Chandra Chase

★ NR
Where Are They Now? 1999

Self

★ 7.5
Batman Beyond 1999

Commissioner Barbara Gordon (voice)

★ 8.1
Practical Magic 1998

Aunt Frances

★ 6.8
The Baby Dance 1998

Rachel Luckman

★ 6.1
An Unexpected Life 1998

Barbara Whitney

★ 4.5
Twilight 1998

Lt. Verna Hollander

★ 6.1
Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde 1997

Narrator (voice)

★ NR
King of the Hill 1997

Mrs. Holloway (voice)

★ 7.3
An Unexpected Family 1996

Barbara Whitney

★ 5.6
The Prosecutors 1996

Ingrid Maynard

★ NR
The First Wives Club 1996

Cynthia Swann Griffin

★ 6.7
Moll Flanders 1996

Mrs. Allworthy

★ 6.1
Lily Dale 1996

Corella

★ 2
Edie & Pen 1996

Pen

★ 5.6
Up Close & Personal 1996

Marcia McGrath

★ 6.3
Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree 1995

Miss Adelaide

★ 5.5
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar 1995

Carol Ann

★ 7.4
Smoke 1995

Ruby McNutt

★ 7.2
Michael the Visitor 1995

Narrator (voice)

★ 8
David's Mother 1994

Bea

★ 8
Six Degrees of Separation 1993

Ouisa

★ 6.4
Intimate Portrait 1993

Self

★ 4.5
Lincoln 1992

Clara Harris (voice)

★ 7.2
Bitter Moon 1992

Beverly (uncredited)

★ 7.1
Married to It 1991

Iris Morden

★ 5.9
Meet the Applegates 1990

Jane Applegate

★ 5.5
Staying Together 1989

Nancy Trainer

★ 5.3
Perfect Witness 1989

Liz Sapperstein

★ 7
Tidy Endings 1988

Marion

★ 1
A Time of Destiny 1988

Margaret

★ 4.8
Echoes in the Darkness 1987

Susan Reinert

★ 7.5
The Room Upstairs 1987

Leah Lazenby

★ 4
The Men's Club 1986

Nancy

★ 4.2
Heartburn 1986

Julie

★ 6
Not My Kid 1985

Helen Bower

★ 7.3
Without a Trace 1983

Jocelyn Norris

★ 5.6
Nature 1982

Narrator (voice)

★ 8.1
Safari 3000 1982

J.J. Dalton

★ 5.1
The Stockard Channing Show 1980

Susan Goodenow

★ 5
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh 1979

Mona Mondieu

★ 5.6
Stockard Channing: In Just Friends 1979

★ NR
Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story 1979

Kitty O'Neil

★ 7
The Cheap Detective 1978

Bess

★ 6.2
Grease 1978

Betty Rizzo

★ 7.4
A Different Approach 1978

★ 6.3
Lucan 1977

Mickey MacElwaine

★ NR
The Big Bus 1976

Kitty Baxter

★ 5.2
Sweet Revenge 1976

Vurlla Kowsky

★ 5.8
The Fortune 1975

Freddie Bigard

★ 5.3
The Lion Roars Again 1975

Self

★ NR
NOVA 1974

Self - Bible Reader

★ 7
The Girl Most Likely To... 1973

Miriam Knight

★ 6.6
Up the Sandbox 1972

Judy Stanley (uncredited)

★ 5.8
The Hospital 1971

E.R. Nurse (uncredited)

★ 6.6
Sesame Street 1969

Mad Painter's Victim

★ 7.1
Love, American Style 1969

Marsha Sue

★ 6
Medical Center 1969

★ 6.1
Tony Awards 1956

Self - Nominee/Performer

★ 4.6
The Oscars 1953

Self

★ 6.9
Hallmark Hall of Fame 1951

Leah Lazenby

★ 8.6

Stockard Channing

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