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.

Filmography

• 2026Practical Magic 2 — Aunt Frances
• Knuckles — Wendy Whipple
• Maryland — Cathy
• 2022Angry Neighbors — Chloe
• 2021Death to 2021 — Penn Parker
• 2017The Grease Story — Betty Rizzo
• The Guest Book — Jill
• Behind Closed Doors with Natalie Morales — Rizzo (archive footage)
• Difficult People — Bonnie Kessler
• 2014Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America — Narrator
• The Mysteries of Laura — Brenda Phillips
• 2013Pulling Strings — Virginia
• 201117th Precinct — Detective Sergeant Mira Barkley
• 2011Chautauqua: An American Narrative — Narrator (voice)
• 2010Multiple Sarcasms — Pamela
• 2010Sundays at Tiffany's — Vivian Claremont
• The Cleveland Show
• The Good Wife — Veronica Loy
• 2009The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies — Narrator (voice)
• 2007Sparkle — Sheila
• 2007Through Deaf Eyes — Narrator
• 20053 Needles — Olive Cowie
• Meerkat Manor — Narrator
• 2005Must Love Dogs — Dolly
• Out of Practice — Dr. Lydia Barnes
• 2005Red Mercury — Penelope
• 2004Batman Beyond: School Days and Spellbound — Barbara Gordon (voice)
• 2004Home of the Brave — Narrator (voice)
• 2004Jack — Anne
• 2004The Kennedy Mystique: Creating Camelot — Narrator (voice)
• 2003Abby Singer — Stockard Channing (uncredited)
• 2003Anything Else — Paula Chase
• 2003Behind the Red Door — Julia
• 2003Bright Young Things — Mrs. Melrose Ape
• Hitler: The Rise of Evil — Klara Hitler
• 2003Le Divorce — Margeeve Walker
• 2003The Piano Man's Daughter — Lily Kilworth
• 2002Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister — Margarethe Fisher Van Den Meer
• 2002Life or Something Like It — Deborah Connors
• 2002New York Firefighters: The Brotherhood of September 11
• 2002The Matthew Shepard Story — Judy Shepard
• A Girl Thing — Dr. Beth Noonan
• 2001Out of the Closet, Off the Screen: The Life of William Haines — Narrator (voice)
• 2001So You Want to Be President? — Narrator
• 2001The Business of Strangers — Julie Styron
• Walking with Beasts
• 2001When Billie Beat Bobby — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
• 2000Isn't She Great — Florence Maybelle
• 2000Other Voices — Dr. Gover
• 2000The Truth About Jane — Janice
• 2000Where the Heart Is — Thelma 'Sister' Husband
• Batman Beyond — Commissioner Barbara Gordon (voice)
• 1999The Venice Project — Chandra Chase
• The West Wing — Abigail 'Abbey' Bartlet
• 1998An Unexpected Life — Barbara Whitney
• 1998Practical Magic — Aunt Frances
• 1998The Baby Dance — Rachel Luckman
• 1998Twilight — Lt. Verna Hollander
• King of the Hill — Mrs. Holloway (voice)
• 1997Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde — Narrator (voice)
• 1996An Unexpected Family — Barbara Whitney
• 1996Edie & Pen — Pen
• 1996Lily Dale — Corella
• 1996Moll Flanders — Mrs. Allworthy
• 1996The First Wives Club — Cynthia Swann Griffin
• 1996The Prosecutors — Ingrid Maynard
• 1996Up Close & Personal — Marcia McGrath
• 1995Michael the Visitor — Narrator (voice)
• 1995Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree — Miss Adelaide
• 1995Smoke — Ruby McNutt
• 1995To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar — Carol Ann
• 1994David's Mother — Bea
• 1993Six Degrees of Separation — Ouisa
• 1992Bitter Moon — Beverly (uncredited)
• 1992Lincoln — Clara Harris (voice)
• 1991Married to It — Iris Morden
• 1990Meet the Applegates — Jane Applegate
• 1989Perfect Witness — Liz Sapperstein
• 1989Staying Together — Nancy Trainer
• 1988A Time of Destiny — Margaret
• 1988Tidy Endings — Marion
• 1987Echoes in the Darkness — Susan Reinert
• Echoes in the Darkness — Susan Reinert
• 1987The Room Upstairs — Leah Lazenby
• 1986Heartburn — Julie
• 1986The Men's Club — Nancy
• 1985Not My Kid — Helen Bower
• 1983Without a Trace — Jocelyn Norris
• Nature — Narrator (voice)
• 1982Safari 3000 — J.J. Dalton
• 1982Table Settings
• The Stockard Channing Show — Susan Goodenow
• Just Friends — Susan Hughes
• 1979Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story — Kitty O'Neil
• 1979The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh — Mona Mondieu
• 1978A Different Approach
• 1978Grease — Rizzo
• 1978The Cheap Detective — Bess
• 1977Lucan — Mickey MacElwaine
• 1976Sweet Revenge — Vurlla Kowsky
• 1976The Big Bus — Kitty Baxter
• 1975The Fortune — Freddie Bigard
• NOVA — Self - Bible Reader, Narrator (voice)
• 1973The Girl Most Likely To... — Miriam Knight
• 1972Up the Sandbox — Judy Stanley (uncredited)
• 1971The Hospital — E.R. Nurse (uncredited)
• Love, American Style — Marsha Sue
• Medical Center
• Sesame Street — Mad Painter's Victim
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Leah Lazenby

Appearances as themselves (17)

• 2017The Fabulous Allan Carr — Self (archive footage)
• 2009Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's — Self
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen — Self - Guest
• 2006Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman — Self
• 2006The Time, the Place, the Motion: Remembering Grease — Self – Betty Rizzo
• 2004Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On! — Self (uncredited)
• Where Are They Now? — Self
• The View — Self
• Inside the Actors Studio — Self
• Intimate Portrait — Self
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche — Self - Guest
• 1975The Lion Roars Again — Self
• The Merv Griffin Show — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
• Tony Awards — Self - Winner, Self - Nominee, Self - Presenter, Self - Nominee / Performer
• The Oscars — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee, Self - Presenter