Everything about Stockard Channing totally explained
Stockard Channing (born
February 13,
1944) is an
American Academy Award- and
Golden Globe Award-nominated, three time
Emmy Award-winning and
Tony Award-winning stage, film and television
actress. She is known for her portrayal of
First Lady Abbey Bartlet in the
NBC television series The West Wing; for playing teenager
Betty Rizzo in the film
Grease; and for her role in both the stage and screen versions of
Six Degrees of Separation.
Biography
Early life
Channing was born
Susan Antonia Williams Stockard in
New York City,
New York, the daughter of Mary Alice (
née English), who came from a large
Brooklyn-based
Irish Catholic family, and Lester Napier Stockard, a shipping magnate and business executive. She grew up on the
Upper East Side. While growing up she spent a great deal of time at the local butcher's shop and would often help pack meat and prepare it for delivery.Later, she inherited her father's fortune when he died in 1950. She is an alumna of
The Madeira School, a Virginia boarding school for girls. Channing then studied history and literature at
Radcliffe College, and graduated in 1965. She married her first husband,
Walter Channing, when she was 19, and kept the amalgamated name, "Stockard Channing", after they divorced.
Career
Starting out
Channing started her acting career with the experimental Theatre Company of
Boston and eventually performed in the group's off-Broadway production of
Adaptation/Next. In 1971, she made her
Broadway debut in
Two Gentlemen of Verona -- The Musical, working with playwright
John Guare.
After a few small parts in feature films, Channing co-starred with
Warren Beatty and
Jack Nicholson in
Mike Nichols'
The Fortune (1975). In 1978, at the age of 33, she took on the role of high school teenager
Betty Rizzo in the hit musical
Grease. Her performance earned her the
People's Choice Awards for Favorite Motion Picture Supporting Actress. That year, she also played
Peter Falk's unpretentious but determined secretary in
Neil Simon's film
The Cheap Detective.
The 1980s
Channing starred in two short-lived
sitcoms on
CBS in 1979 and 1980:
Stockard Channing in Just Friends and
The Stockard Channing Show. Her Hollywood career faltered after these failures, so Channing returned to her theatre roots. After a run as the female lead in the Broadway show,
They're Playing Our Song (1980-81), she landed the part of the mother in the 1982
New Haven production of
Peter Nichols'
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg. She reprised the role on Broadway and won the 1985
Tony Award for
Best Actress in a Play. She has been in a long-term relationship with
cinematographer Daniel Gillham for more than twenty years; they met on the set of
A Time of Destiny.
The couple resides in
Maine when not working.
Filmography
Upcoming:
Multiple Sarcasms (2008)
Short Subjects:
The Lion Roars Again (1975)
A Different Approach (1978)
From the Bottom Up (2004)Further Information
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