Known For: American actress (born 1944)
Category: Actresses
Occupation: voice actor, stage actor, film actor, television actor
Country: United States of America
City: New York City
Date of Birth: Sunday, 13 February 1944
Language English
Stockard Channing 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.
| BirthPlace | New York City |
| Education | Q49124, Q13371, Q5629067, Q6726842 |
| Awards | Q1179189, Q185299, Q5305704, Q1868921, Q2530270, Q5513589, Q2462064, Q56085715, Q1285504, Q989449 |
| Spouses | Walter Channing, Paul Schmidt, David Debin |
| Wikipedia | Stockard_Channing |
Channing was born in Manhattan, and she grew up on the affluent Upper East Side. She was the daughter of Mary Alice (née English), who came from a large Brooklyn Irish Roman Catholic family, and Lester Napier Stockard (died 1960), who was in the shipping business. Her elder sister is Lesly Stockard Smith, former mayor of Palm Beach, Florida. Channing is an alumna of the Madeira School in McLean, Virginia, a boarding school for girls, which she attended after starting at the Chapin School in New York City. She studied history and literature at Radcliffe College of Harvard University in Massachusetts and graduated summa cum laude in 1965. She received her acting training at HB Studio in New York City.
