Stockard Channing (born Susan Williams Antonia Stockard; February , )
is an American actress. She is known for playing Betty Rizzo in the
film Grease () and First Lady Abbey Bartlet on the NBC television
series The West Wing (â€"). She is also known for originating the role
of Ouisa Kittredge in the stage and film versions of Six Degrees of
Separation, for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best
Actress in a Play and the Academy Award for Best Actress.A -time
Primetime Emmy Award nominee and seven-time Tony Award nominee, she
won the 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 . She won a Daytime
Emmy Award in for her role in Jack. Her film appearances include The
Fortune (), The Big Bus (), The Cheap Detective (), Heartburn (), Up
Close & Personal (), Practical Magic (), and Woody Allen's Anything
Else (). She also played the recurring role of Veronica Loy on the CBS
drama The Good Wife (â€").Channing was born in Manhattan, the daughter
of Mary Alice (née English; â€"), who came from a large Brooklyn
Irish Catholic family, and Lester Napier Stockard (died ), who was in
the shipping business. Her sister is Lesly Stockard Smith, former
mayor of Palm Beach, Florida. She grew up on the Upper East Side.
is an American actress. She is known for playing Betty Rizzo in the
film Grease () and First Lady Abbey Bartlet on the NBC television
series The West Wing (â€"). She is also known for originating the role
of Ouisa Kittredge in the stage and film versions of Six Degrees of
Separation, for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best
Actress in a Play and the Academy Award for Best Actress.A -time
Primetime Emmy Award nominee and seven-time Tony Award nominee, she
won the 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 . She won a Daytime
Emmy Award in for her role in Jack. Her film appearances include The
Fortune (), The Big Bus (), The Cheap Detective (), Heartburn (), Up
Close & Personal (), Practical Magic (), and Woody Allen's Anything
Else (). She also played the recurring role of Veronica Loy on the CBS
drama The Good Wife (â€").Channing was born in Manhattan, the daughter
of Mary Alice (née English; â€"), who came from a large Brooklyn
Irish Catholic family, and Lester Napier Stockard (died ), who was in
the shipping business. Her sister is Lesly Stockard Smith, former
mayor of Palm Beach, Florida. She grew up on the Upper East Side.
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