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[h3]Forever known for her role as Rizzo in the film 'Grease', Stockard was born in Manhattan’s Upper East Side in 1944.[/h3]
Born Susan Williams Antonia Stockard Channing Schmidt, she was the daughter of a wealthy shipping executive and, upon his death in 1950, inherited the family fortune.
An academic star at New York’s Chapin School and Radcliffe College, she made her first performance in 'The Threepenny Opera' at Harvard University. She then joined Boston’s experimental Theatre Company in the mid 1960s, where she met contemporaries John Lithgow and [urlnew=http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biography_home/1001:0/Tommy_Lee_Jones.htm]Tommy Lee Jones[/urlnew].
After several false starts, her big break was in a television production of 'The Two Gentlemen of Verona'.
Her film debut was in 'Hospital' in 1971, and she also starred in [urlnew=http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biography_home/1208:0/Joan_Rivers.htm]Joan Rivers’[/urlnew] camp classic, 'The Girl Most Likely To..', in 1973. In 1975, Channing had her big break in 'The Fortune', alongside [urlnew=http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biography_home/274:0/Warren_Beatty.htm]Warren Beatty[/urlnew] and [urlnew=http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biography_home/1496:0/Jack_Nicholson.htm]Jack Nicholson[/urlnew].
It was in 1976 that she landed the timeless part of tough-girl Rizzo in the musical 'Grease'.
This led to her two short-lived sitcoms: 'Stockard Channing in Just Friends' and 'The Stockard Channing Show'.
Focusing on the theatre in the 1980s, she won a Tony award for her performance in 'A Day In The Life of Joe Egg' in 1983.
Channing really returned to screen form in 1993’s 'Six Degrees of Separation', for which she was awarded a Golden Globe.
Her most recent screen success has been in 'Where the Heart Is', in 2000.
In 1999, Channing took on the role of First Lady Abbey Bartlet in the political drama The West Wing. She was a recurring guest star for the show's first two seasons, before she became a regular cast member in 2001. In the seventh and final season of The West Wing (2005-2006), Channing appeared in only six episodes because she was also starring in the sitcom Out of Practice at the same time. Out of Practice was cancelled by CBS after one season.
Channing has been married and divorced four times; she has no children. She has been in a long-term relationship with cinematographer Daniel Gillham for more than twenty years, after they met on the set of A Time of Destiny.
Stockard Channing biography
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Multiple Sarcasms (2008) (post-production)
Sparkle (2007)
"The West Wing" (62 episodes, 1999-2006)
"Out of Practice" (8 episodes, 2005-2006)
3 Needles (2005)
Must Love Dogs (2005)
Red Mercury (2005)
Jack (2004) (TV)
The Piano Man's Daughter (2003) (TV)
Anything Else (2003)
Divorce, Le (2003)
Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003) (TV)
Bright Young Things (2003)
Behind the Red Door (2003)
Life or Something Like It (2002)
The Matthew Shepard Story (2002) (TV)
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (2002) (TV)
Pearl Harbor: Death of the Arizona (2001) (TV)
When Billie Beat Bobby (2001) (TV) (uncredited)
A Girl Thing (2001) (TV)
The Business of Strangers (2001)
The Truth About Jane (2000) (TV)
Where the Heart Is (2000)
"Batman Beyond" (6 episodes, 1999-2000)
Isn't She Great (2000)
Other Voices (2000)
The Venice Project (1999)
Practical Magic (1998)
The Baby Dance (1998) (TV)
Lulu on the Bridge (1998) (voice) (uncredited)
An Unexpected Life (1998) (TV)
Twilight (1998)
"King of the Hill" (1 episode, 1997)
An Unexpected Family (1996) (TV)
The Prosecutors (1996) (TV)
The First Wives Club (1996)
Moll Flanders (1996)
Lily Dale (1996) (TV)
Edie & Pen (1996)
Up Close & Personal (1996)
Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree (1995) (TV)
To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)
Smoke (1995)
David's Mother (1994) (TV)
"Road to Avonlea" (2 episodes, 1994)
Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
Lincoln (1992) (TV) (voice)
Bitter Moon (1992) (uncredited)
Married to It (1991)
Meet the Applegates (1991)
"Trying Times" (1 episode, 1989)
Perfect Witness (1989) (TV)
Staying Together (1989)
Tidy Endings (1988) (TV)
A Time of Destiny (1988)
Echoes in the Darkness (1987) (TV)
The Room Upstairs (1987) (TV)
The Men's Club (1986)
Heartburn (1986)
Not My Kid (1985) (TV)
Table Settings (1984) (TV)
Without a Trace (1983)
Safari 3000 (1982)
"The Stockard Channing Show" (13 episodes)
Office TV episode
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979)
"Stockard Channing in Just Friends" (10 episodes, 1979)
Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story (1979) (TV)
The Cheap Detective (1978)
Grease (1978)
A Different Approach (1978)
Lucan (1977) (TV)
The Big Bus (1976)
Sweet Revenge (1976)
The Fortune (1975)
"Medical Center" (1 episode, 1974)
"Love, American Style" (segment "Love and the Eat's Cafe") (1 episode, 1973)
The Girl Most Likely to... (1973) (TV)
Up the Sandbox (1972) (uncredited)
The Hospital (1971) (uncredited)
"Sesame Street" (1969) TV series (unknown episodes, 1969-1974)
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