Stockard Channing

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

Grease Not in library

Grease

1978

Practical Magic Not in library

Practical Magic

1998

Bitter Moon Not in library

Bitter Moon

1992

The First Wives Club Not in library

The First Wives Club

1996

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar Not in library

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

1995

Where the Heart Is Not in library

Where the Heart Is

2000

The Good Wife Not in library

The Good Wife

2009

Anything Else Not in library

Anything Else

2003

King of the Hill Not in library

King of the Hill

1997

Life or Something Like It Not in library

Life or Something Like It

2002

Acting

2026 Practical Magic 2 as Aunt Frances
2024 Knuckles as Wendy Whipple (5 episodes)
2023 Maryland as Cathy (3 episodes)
2022 Angry Neighbors as Chloe
2021 Death to 2021 as Penn Parker
2017 The Grease Story as Betty Rizzo
2017 The Guest Book as Jill (1 episode)
2015 Behind Closed Doors with Natalie Morales as Rizzo (archive footage) (1 episode)
2015 Difficult People as Bonnie Kessler (1 episode)
2014 Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America as Narrator
2014 The Mysteries of Laura as Brenda Phillips (2 episodes)
2013 Pulling Strings as Virginia
2011 17th Precinct as Detective Sergeant Mira Barkley
2011 Chautauqua: An American Narrative as Narrator (voice)
2010 Multiple Sarcasms as Pamela
2010 Sundays at Tiffany's as Vivian Claremont
2009 The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies as Narrator (voice)
2009 Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's as Self
2009 The Cleveland Show
2009 The Good Wife as Veronica Loy (11 episodes)
2009 Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest (1 episode)
2007 Sparkle as Sheila
2007 Through Deaf Eyes as Narrator
2006 Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman as Self
2005 Red Mercury as Penelope
2005 3 Needles as Olive Cowie
2005 Must Love Dogs as Dolly
2005 Meerkat Manor as Narrator (52 episodes)
2005 Out of Practice as Dr. Lydia Barnes (22 episodes)
2004 Jack as Anne
2004 Home of the Brave as Narrator (voice)
2004 The Kennedy Mystique: Creating Camelot as Narrator (voice)
2003 Anything Else as Paula Chase
2003 Bright Young Things as Mrs. Melrose Ape
2003 Behind the Red Door as Julia
2003 Abby Singer as Stockard Channing (uncredited)
2003 Le Divorce as Margeeve Walker
2003 The Piano Man's Daughter as Lily Kilworth
2003 Hitler: The Rise of Evil as Klara Hitler (2 episodes)
2002 The Matthew Shepard Story as Judy Shepard
2002 Life or Something Like It as Deborah Connors
2002 Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister as Margarethe Fisher Van Den Meer
2002 New York Firefighters: The Brotherhood of September 11
2001 The Business of Strangers as Julie Styron
2001 When Billie Beat Bobby as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
2001 Out of the Closet, Off the Screen: The Life of William Haines as Narrator (voice)
2001 So You Want to Be President? as Narrator
2001 Walking with Beasts
2001 A Girl Thing as Dr. Beth Noonan (4 episodes)
2000 Where the Heart Is as Thelma 'Sister' Husband
2000 The Truth About Jane as Janice
2000 Other Voices as Dr. Gover In Library
2000 Isn't She Great as Florence Maybelle
1999 The Venice Project as Chandra Chase
1999 Batman Beyond as Commissioner Barbara Gordon (voice) (30 episodes)
1999 Where Are They Now? as Self (2 episodes)
1999 The West Wing as Abbey Bartlet (68 episodes)
1998 Practical Magic as Aunt Frances
1998 Twilight as Lt. Verna Hollander
1998 The Baby Dance as Rachel Luckman
1998 An Unexpected Life as Barbara Whitney
1997 Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde as Narrator (voice)
1997 The View as Self (1 episode)
1997 King of the Hill as Mrs. Holloway (voice) (1 episode)
1996 The First Wives Club as Cynthia Swann Griffin
1996 Up Close & Personal as Marcia McGrath
1996 Moll Flanders as Mrs. Allworthy
1996 An Unexpected Family as Barbara Whitney
1996 Lily Dale as Corella
1996 Edie & Pen as Pen
1996 The Prosecutors as Ingrid Maynard
1995 Smoke as Ruby McNutt
1995 Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree as Miss Adelaide
1995 Michael the Visitor as Narrator (voice)
1995 To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar as Carol Ann
1994 David's Mother as Bea
1994 Inside the Actors Studio as Self (1 episode)
1993 Six Degrees of Separation as Ouisa
1993 Intimate Portrait as Self (1 episode)
1992 Bitter Moon as Beverly (uncredited)
1992 Lincoln as Clara Harris (voice)
1991 Married to It as Iris Morden
1990 Meet the Applegates as Jane Applegate
1989 Staying Together as Nancy Trainer
1989 Perfect Witness as Liz Sapperstein
1988 A Time of Destiny as Margaret
1988 Tidy Endings as Marion
1987 Echoes in the Darkness as Susan Reinert
1987 The Room Upstairs as Leah Lazenby
1987 Echoes in the Darkness as Susan Reinert (2 episodes)
1986 Heartburn as Julie
1986 The Men's Club as Nancy
1985 Not My Kid as Helen Bower
1983 Without a Trace as Jocelyn Norris
1982 Safari 3000 as J.J. Dalton
1982 Nature as Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
1980 The Stockard Channing Show as Susan Goodenow (13 episodes)
1979 The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh as Mona Mondieu
1979 Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story as Kitty O'Neil
1979 Just Friends as Susan Hughes (11 episodes)
1978 Grease as Betty Rizzo
1978 The Cheap Detective as Bess
1978 A Different Approach
1977 Lucan as Mickey MacElwaine
1976 The Big Bus as Kitty Baxter
1976 Sweet Revenge as Vurlla Kowsky
1975 The Fortune as Freddie Bigard
1975 The Lion Roars Again as Self
1975 Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self - Guest (1 episode)
1974 NOVA as Self - Bible Reader (1 episode)
1974 NOVA as Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
1973 The Girl Most Likely To... as Miriam Knight
1972 Up the Sandbox as Judy Stanley (uncredited)
1971 The Hospital as E.R. Nurse (uncredited)
1969 Medical Center
1969 Sesame Street as Mad Painter's Victim (1 episode)
1969 Love, American Style as Marsha Sue (1 episode)
1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self (2 episodes)
1962 The Merv Griffin Show as Self (1 episode)
1956 Tony Awards as Self - Winner (1 episode)
1956 Tony Awards as Self - Nominee (3 episodes)
1956 Tony Awards as Self - Presenter (1 episode)
1956 Tony Awards as Self - Nominee / Performer (2 episodes)
1953 The Oscars as Self (1 episode)
1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame as Leah Lazenby (1 episode)
1944 Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee (2 episodes)
1944 Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter (1 episode)