Stockard Channing

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1944-02-13 (81 years old)

Place of Birth

Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Stockard Channing

Biography

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 serie...

Acting

1978

Grease

as Betty Rizzo

1995

Smoke

as Ruby McNutt

2000

Where the Heart Is

as Thelma 'Sister' Husband

2003

Anything Else

as Paula Chase

1996

The First Wives Club

as Cynthia Swann Griffin

1998

Practical Magic

as Aunt Frances

2001

1991

Married to It

as Iris Morden

1998

Twilight

as Lt. Verna Hollander

1996

Up Close & Personal

as Marcia McGrath

1986

Heartburn

as Julie

1989

Staying Together

as Nancy Trainer

2021

Death to 2021

as Penn Parker

2007

Sparkle

as Sheila

2003

Bright Young Things

as Mrs. Melrose Ape

1971

The Hospital

as E.R. Nurse (uncredited)

2002

2002

Life or Something Like It

as Deborah Connors

2010

2005

Red Mercury

as Penelope

1983

Without a Trace

as Jocelyn Norris

2001

When Billie Beat Bobby

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

2005

3 Needles

as Olive Cowie

1996

Moll Flanders

as Mrs. Allworthy

1976

The Big Bus

as Kitty Baxter

1975

The Fortune

as Freddie Bigard

2000

Other Voices

as Dr. Gover

1982

Safari 3000

as J.J. Dalton

2000

Isn't She Great

as Florence Maybelle

1986

1973

1998

The Baby Dance

as Rachel Luckman

1996

An Unexpected Family

as Barbara Whitney

1987

Echoes in the Darkness

as Susan Reinert

2004

Jack

as Anne

1987

The Room Upstairs

as Leah Lazenby

1995

1996

Lily Dale

as Corella

1985

Not My Kid

as Helen Bower

2013

Pulling Strings

as Virginia

1988

1989

Perfect Witness

as Liz Sapperstein

1994

1977

Lucan

as Mickey MacElwaine

1996

1996

The Prosecutors

as Ingrid Maynard

1998

An Unexpected Life

as Barbara Whitney

2002

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

as Margarethe Fisher Van Den Meer

2004

Home of the Brave

as Narrator (voice)

2022

1990

Meet the Applegates

as Jane Applegate

2005

1992

Bitter Moon

as Beverly (uncredited)

2010

Sundays at Tiffany's

as Vivian Claremont

1976

Sweet Revenge

as Vurlla Kowsky

1972

Up the Sandbox

as Judy Stanley (uncredited)

1999

The Venice Project

as Chandra Chase

2017

The Grease Story

as Betty Rizzo

2003

Abby Singer

as Stockard Channing (uncredited)

1988

Tidy Endings

as Marion

2001

A Girl Thing

as Dr. Beth Noonan

1995

Michael the Visitor

as Narrator (voice)

2003

Le Divorce

as Margeeve Walker

2003

The Piano Man's Daughter

as Lily Kilworth

2011

17th Precinct

as Detective Sergeant Mira Barkley

1992

Lincoln

as Clara Harris (voice)

2007

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