Stockard Channing

Acting

February 13, 1944 (82 years old)

Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Female

89 Movies

41 TV Shows

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.

Grease

1978 7.4

as Betty Rizzo

Age 34 (now 82)

The West Wing

1999 8.3

as Abigail 'Abbey' Bartlet

Age 55 (now 82) 68 eps

68 eps

Practical Magic

1998 6.8

as Aunt Frances

Age 54 (now 82)

Six Degrees of Separation

1993 6.4

as Ouisa

Age 49 (now 82)

Batman Beyond

1999 8.2

as Commissioner Barbara Gordon (voice)

Age 54 (now 82) 30 eps

30 eps

Where the Heart Is

2000 7.1

as Thelma 'Sister' Husband

Age 56 (now 82)

Smoke

1995 7.2

as Ruby McNutt

Age 51 (now 82)

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

1995 7.4

as Carol Ann

Age 51 (now 82)

Anything Else

2003 6.2

as Paula Chase

Age 59 (now 82)

Up Close & Personal

1996 6.3

as Marcia McGrath

Age 52 (now 82)

The First Wives Club

1996 6.7

as Cynthia Swann Griffin

Age 52 (now 82)

The Good Wife

2009 7.6

as Veronica Loy

Age 65 (now 82) 11 eps

11 eps

Must Love Dogs

2005 6.0

as Dolly

Age 61 (now 82)

The Big Bus

1976 5.3

as Kitty Baxter

Age 32 (now 82)

Life or Something Like It

2002 5.7

as Deborah Connors

Age 58 (now 82)

The Girl Most Likely To...

1973 6.6

as Miriam Knight

Age 29 (now 82)

Practical Magic 2

2026

as Aunt Frances

Age 82

Angry Neighbors

2022 4.1

as Chloe

Age 78 (now 82)

Death to 2021

2021 6.0

as Penn Parker

Age 77 (now 82)

The Grease Story

2017 8.4

as Betty Rizzo

Age 73 (now 82)

The Fabulous Allan Carr

2017 4.5

as Self (archive)

Age 73 (now 82)

Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America

2014

as Narrator

Age 70 (now 82)

Pulling Strings

2013 6.9

as Virginia

Age 69 (now 82)

17th Precinct

2011 4.0

as Detective Sergeant Mira Barkley

Age 67 (now 82)

Chautauqua: An American Narrative

2011

as Narrator (voice)

Age 67 (now 82)

Sundays at Tiffany's

2010 6.5

as Vivian Claremont

Age 66 (now 82)

Multiple Sarcasms

2010 5.9

as Pamela

Age 66 (now 82)

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

2009 8.0

as Self

Age 65 (now 82)

The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies

2009 6.2

as Narrator (voice)

Age 64 (now 82)

Sparkle

2007 5.7

as Sheila

Age 63 (now 82)

Through Deaf Eyes

2007 7.3

as Narrator

Age 63 (now 82)

The Time, the Place, the Motion: Remembering Grease

2006

as Self – Betty Rizzo

Age 62 (now 82)

Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman

2006 7.6

as Self

Age 62 (now 82)

3 Needles

2005 6.0

as Olive Cowie

Age 61 (now 82)

Must Love Dogs

2005 6.0

as Dolly

Age 61 (now 82)

Red Mercury

2005 5.3

as Penelope

Age 61 (now 82)

The Kennedy Mystique: Creating Camelot

2004 1.0

as Narrator (voice)

Age 60 (now 82)

Jack

2004 4.8

as Anne

Age 60 (now 82)

Home of the Brave

2004 10.0

as Narrator (voice)

Age 59 (now 82)

Abby Singer

2003 6.8

as Stockard Channing (uncredited)

Age 59 (now 82)

Bright Young Things

2003 6.3

as Mrs. Melrose Ape

Age 59 (now 82)

The Piano Man's Daughter

2003 10.0

as Lily Kilworth

Age 59 (now 82)

Anything Else

2003 6.2

as Paula Chase

Age 59 (now 82)

Le Divorce

2003 5.0

as Margeeve Walker

Age 59 (now 82)

Behind the Red Door

2003 5.4

as Julia

Age 58 (now 82)

Life or Something Like It

2002 5.7

as Deborah Connors

Age 58 (now 82)

The Matthew Shepard Story

2002 5.6

as Judy Shepard

Age 58 (now 82)

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

2002 6.5

as Margarethe Fisher Van Den Meer

Age 58 (now 82)

New York Firefighters: The Brotherhood of September 11

2002

Age 57 (now 82)

The Business of Strangers

2001 5.6

as Julie Styron

Age 57 (now 82)

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

2001 5.7

as Narrator (voice)

Age 57 (now 82)

When Billie Beat Bobby

2001 5.4

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Age 57 (now 82)

So You Want to Be President?

2001

as Narrator

Age 56 (now 82)

The Truth About Jane

2000 6.2

as Janice

Age 56 (now 82)

Where the Heart Is

2000 7.1

as Thelma 'Sister' Husband

Age 56 (now 82)

Isn't She Great

2000 5.0

as Florence Maybelle

Age 55 (now 82)

Other Voices

2000 4.0

as Dr. Gover

Age 55 (now 82)

The Venice Project

1999 7.0

as Chandra Chase

Age 55 (now 82)

Practical Magic

1998 6.8

as Aunt Frances

Age 54 (now 82)

The Baby Dance

1998 6.3

as Rachel Luckman

Age 54 (now 82)

An Unexpected Life

1998 4.9

as Barbara Whitney

Age 54 (now 82)

Twilight

1998 6.1

as Lt. Verna Hollander

Age 54 (now 82)

Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde

1997 7.0

as Narrator (voice)

Age 53 (now 82)

An Unexpected Family

1996 5.8

as Barbara Whitney

Age 52 (now 82)

The Prosecutors

1996 8.0

as Ingrid Maynard

Age 52 (now 82)

The First Wives Club

1996 6.7

as Cynthia Swann Griffin

Age 52 (now 82)

Moll Flanders

1996 6.1

as Mrs. Allworthy

Age 52 (now 82)

Lily Dale

1996 3.7

as Corella

Age 52 (now 82)

Edie & Pen

1996 6.0

as Pen

Age 52 (now 82)

Up Close & Personal

1996 6.3

as Marcia McGrath

Age 52 (now 82)

Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree

1995 6.2

as Miss Adelaide

Age 51 (now 82)

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

1995 7.4

as Carol Ann

Age 51 (now 82)

Smoke

1995 7.2

as Ruby McNutt

Age 51 (now 82)

Michael the Visitor

1995 8.0

as Narrator (voice)

Age 50 (now 82)

David's Mother

1994 8.3

as Bea

Age 50 (now 82)

Six Degrees of Separation

1993 6.4

as Ouisa

Age 49 (now 82)

Lincoln

1992 7.3

as Clara Harris (voice)

Age 48 (now 82)

Bitter Moon

1992 7.1

as Beverly (uncredited)

Age 48 (now 82)

Married to It

1991 6.0

as Iris Morden

Age 47 (now 82)

Meet the Applegates

1990 5.6

as Jane Applegate

Age 46 (now 82)

Staying Together

1989 5.2

as Nancy Trainer

Age 45 (now 82)

Perfect Witness

1989 7.2

as Liz Sapperstein

Age 45 (now 82)

Tidy Endings

1988 4.0

as Marion

Age 44 (now 82)

A Time of Destiny

1988 5.4

as Margaret

Age 44 (now 82)

Echoes in the Darkness

1987 7.5

as Susan Reinert

Age 43 (now 82)

The Room Upstairs

1987 4.8

as Leah Lazenby

Age 42 (now 82)

The Men's Club

1986 4.0

as Nancy

Age 42 (now 82)

Heartburn

1986 6.0

as Julie

Age 42 (now 82)

Not My Kid

1985 7.5

as Helen Bower

Age 40 (now 82)

Without a Trace

1983 5.3

as Jocelyn Norris

Age 38 (now 82)

Safari 3000

1982 5.4

as J.J. Dalton

Age 38 (now 82)

Table Settings

1982 5.0

Age 38 (now 82)

The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh

1979 5.7

as Mona Mondieu

Age 35 (now 82)

Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story

1979 7.0

as Kitty O'Neil

Age 35 (now 82)

The Cheap Detective

1978 6.4

as Bess

Age 34 (now 82)

Grease

1978 7.4

as Betty Rizzo

Age 34 (now 82)

A Different Approach

1978 6.5

Age 33 (now 82)

Lucan

1977 7.0

as Mickey MacElwaine

Age 33 (now 82)

The Big Bus

1976 5.3

as Kitty Baxter

Age 32 (now 82)

Sweet Revenge

1976 5.7

as Vurlla Kowsky

Age 32 (now 82)

The Fortune

1975 5.4

as Freddie Bigard

Age 31 (now 82)

The Lion Roars Again

1975 8.0

as Self

Age 30 (now 82)

The Girl Most Likely To...

1973 6.6

as Miriam Knight

Age 29 (now 82)

Up the Sandbox

1972 5.9

as Judy Stanley (uncredited)

Age 28 (now 82)

The Hospital

1971 6.6

as E.R. Nurse (uncredited)

Age 27 (now 82)