Stockard Channing (born Susan Antonia Williams Stockard; February 13, 1944) is an American actress. She 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. She was also one of two comic foils of The Number Painter on Sesame Street.
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 2004 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 in CBS series The Good Wife.
Acting Credits[]
The Good Wife[]
- Season 4
- Episode 4x9 - "A Defense of Marriage"
- Episode 4x18 - "Death of a Client"
- Episode 4x21 - "A More Perfect Union"
- Season 5
- Episode 5x2 - "The Bit Bucket"
- Episode 5x10 - "The Decision Tree"
- Episode 5x11 - "Goliath and David" (uncredited)
- Episode 5x20 - "The Deep Web"
- Episode 5x22 - "A Weird Year"
- Season 6
- Episode 6x4 - "Oppo Research"
- Season 7
External links[]
- Stockard Channing on Wikipedia
- Stockard Channing on The Internet Movie Database