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Stockard Channing Biography

Stockard Channing (born Susan Antonia Williams Stockard) is an American actress. She is best known for playing Betty Rizzo in the film Grease (1978) and First Lady Abbey Bartlet on the NBC television series The West Wing (1999–2006).

Stockard is also known for creating the role of Ouisa Kittredge in the stage and film versions of Six Degrees of Separation.  For the  role she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play and the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Stockard is a 13-time Primetime Emmy Award nominee and seven-time Tony Award nominee.  She 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.

In 2004 she won a Daytime Emmy Award  for her role in Jack. She has appeared in a number of films including  The Fortune (1975), The Big Bus (1976), The Cheap Detective (1978), Heartburn (1986), Up Close & Personal (1996), Practical Magic (1998), and Woody Allen’s Anything Else (2003). Stockard also played the recurring role of Veronica Loy on the CBS drama The Good Wife (2012–16).

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Stockard was born on February 13, 1944 in Manhattan. She is 75 years old as of 2019.

Stockard Channing Family

Stockard was born in Manhattan.  She is  the daughter of Mary Alice who came from a large Brooklyn Irish Catholic family, and Lester Napier Stockard, who was in the shipping business , he died in 1960. She has a sister known as Lesly Stockard Smith, former mayor of Palm Beach, Florida. Stockard grew up on the Upper East Side.

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Stockard Channing Education

Stockard is attended Madeira School in McLean, Virginia, a boarding school for girls.  She had also attended the Chapin School in New York City. Stockard studied History and Literature at Radcliffe College in Massachusetts and graduated summa cum laude in 1965.  Stockard received her acting training at HB Studio  in New York City.

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Stockard began her acting career with the experimental Theatre Company of Boston.  She performed in the group’s Off-Broadway 1969 production of the Elaine May play Adaptation/Next.  Stockard performed in a revival of Arsenic and Old Lace directed by Theodore Mann as part of the Circle in the Square at Ford’s Theatre program in 1970.

She made her Broadway debut in Two Gentlemen of Verona — The Musical, working with playwright John Guare  in 1971.  In 1973 she appeared on Broadway in a supporting role in No Hard Feelings at the Martin Beck Theatre.

Stockard made her television debut on Sesame Street in the role of The Number Painter’s female victim.

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Stockard has been married and divorced four times. She has no children. In 1963 she married Walter Channing  and kept the amalgamated name “Stockard Channing” after they divorced in 1967. From 1970 to 1976 she was married to Paul Schmidt, a professor of Slavic languages, and her third  husband was writer-producer David Debin who she was married to from 1976 to 1980).  Stockard’s fourth husband was businessman David Rawle  from 1980 to 1988.

Stockard has been in a relationship with cinematographer Daniel Gillham for more than 20 years;  they met on the set of A Time of Destiny. The couple reside in Maine when not working.

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Stockard at the age of 33 in 1977, she was cast for the role of high school teenager Betty Rizzo in the hit musical  Grease. In 1978 that when the film was released and her performance earned her the People’s Choice Award for Favorite Motion Picture Supporting Actress.

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Stockard Channing Net Worth

Stockard  has an estimated net worth of $5 million dollars.

Stockard Channing Plastic Surgery

In 2017 as Stockard was  discussing the upcoming 40th anniversary of Grease, viewers couldn’t believe the transformation that has taken place.

A number of viewers  expressed concern over her looks, saying she’d had too much work done and should have chosen to “age gracefully”.

Stockhard has never publicly confirmed or denied having plastic surgery to alter her looks, though many are speculating that she’s had work done.

Stockard Channing Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Taylor is played spectacularly by Grease star Stockard Channing who seems to be embodying the late Hollywood icon.  The same can be said for legendary actor Brian Cox playing equally legendary Marlon Brando.

Stockard Channing West Wing

Stockard took on the role of First Lady Abbey Bartlet in the NBC television series The West Wing in 1999. For the first two seasons she was a recurring guest star.  In 2001 she became a regular cast member . In the seventh and final season of The West Wing (2005–2006), Stockard appeared in only four episodes (including the series finale)

She won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her work on The West Wing

Stockard Channing The Good Wife

Stockard played a recurring role in The Good Wife from 2012. She played the role of the title character’s mother, Veronica Loy until the final season in 2016.

The Stockard Channing Show

Stockard aired her show on CBS from March 24 to July 12, 1980. The Stockard Channing Show also starred  Ron Silver, Sydney Goldsmith, Max Showalter and Jack Somack.

The series aired at 8:30 P.M. ET, along with WKRP in Cincinnati, M*A*S*H and Flo on the Monday night lineup. After the show ended, Stockard would not star in another sitcom until Out of Practice in 2005.