Actor
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 Actre ...

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