Stockard Channing

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Stockard Channing (born Susan Williams Antonia Stockard; February 13, 1944) is an American actress.

Betty Rizzo appears in Grease (1978) and First Lady Abbey Bartlet of the NBC television series The West Wing (1999-2006).

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. She received the 1999 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, as well as Emmy Awards for The West Wing and The Matthew Shepard Story, both in 2002.

In 2004, she received a Daytime Emmy Award for her role in Jack.

The Fortune (1975), The Big Bus (1978), The Cheap Detective (1979), Heartburn (1986), Practical Magic (1996), Woody Allen's Anything Else (2004).

She appeared on television's The Good Wife (2012–16).

Early life and education

Channing was born in Manhattan and grew up on the Upper East Side. She was the niece of Mary Alice (née English), who came from a large Brooklyn Irish Catholic family, and Lester Napier Stockard (died 1960), who worked in the shipping industry. Lesly Stockard Smith, the former mayor of Palm Beach, Florida, is her elder sister.

Channing is an alumna of the Madeira School in McLean, Virginia, a girls'boarding school, which she attended after starting at the Chapin School in New York City. She read history and literature at Radcliffe College of Harvard University in Massachusetts, where she earned a degree in 1965. She obtained her acting education at HB Studios in New York City.

Personal life

Channing has been married and divorced four times; she has no children. Since divorced in 1967, she married Walter Channing Jr. in 1963 and retained the joint name "Stockard Channing." Paul Schmidt, a Slavic languages scholar (1970–76), and her third husband, writer-producer David Debin (1976–80), were her second husband and her third. David Rawle, a businessman from 1980-88, was her fourth husband. Channing was in a long-term relationship with cinematographer Daniel Gillham from 1990 to his death in 2014. They met on the set of A Time of Destiny. Channing is said to be residing in London, the United Kingdom, as of 2019.

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Career

Channing began her acting career with the experimental Theatre Company of Boston, where she appeared in the company's Off-Broadway 1969 production of the Elaine May play Adaptation/Next. In 1970, she appeared in a revival of Arsenic and Old Lace directed by Theodore Mann as part of Ford's Circle in the Square. She made her Broadway debut in Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Musical, in 1971, while playing with playwright John Guare. In 1973, she appeared in a supporting role in No Bad Feelings at the Martin Beck Theatre.

Channing made her television debut on Sesame Street as the female protagonist of The Number Painter's. She landed her first leading role in The Girl Most Likely To..., a black comedy written by Joan Rivers about an ugly duckling woman made new by plastic surgery after an auto accident, and promising murderous revenge on those who had scorned her. Channing underwent a massive shift in the role, with the syndicated column "TV Scout" reporting months later, "It was a good make-up job — at least the part that made the very attractive Stockard look so ugly." Her cheeks were puffed out with cotton, and her nose was wavy, making it thick and off-center. Her eyebrows were drawn on her face, and she wore padded clothing to make her look swollen. It was simple to make her look pretty."

Channing co-starred with Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson in Mike Nicholson' The Fortune (1975) after playing small parts in feature films. Despite Channing being dubbed "the next big thing" in cinema and the actress' remarks that this was some of her best work, the film did not turn out to be the breakthrough role that Channing aspired for. She and Ned Beatty appeared in the pilot for the short-lived TV series Lucan on May 22, 1977. Lucan, played by Kevin Brophy, is a 20-year-old who has spent the first ten years of his life running wild in the woods. Lucan is on his own in search of his identity after being raised by wolves.

Channing appeared in the hit musical Grease in 1977 at the age of 33. In 1978, the film was released, and her performance earned her the People's Choice Award for Best Motion Picture Support Actress.

In addition, Channing appeared in Jerry Schatzberg's 1976 drama Sweet Revenge (which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival), Joseph Bologna's love affair with Peter Falk's secretary, as well as current female land speed record holder Kitty O'Neil (1979).

In 1979 and 1980, Channing appeared in two short-lived sitcoms on CBS: Stockard Channing in Just Friends and The Stockard Channing Exhibition. She co-starred with actress Sydney Goldsmith, who played her best friend in both series. Channing returned to her theatre roots when her Hollywood career faltered due to these setbacks. Despite this, she continued to appear in films, many in supporting roles, including 1983's Without a Trace (with Kate Nelligan and Judd Hirsch), Mike Nicholson's 1986 Heartburn (co-starring Melinda Dillon and Leo Leigh), A Time of Destiny (1988; directed by Lee Grant), and 1989's Staying Together (1989; starring William Hurt, Timothy Hutton, and Melissa Leigh).

In the Broadway show They're Playing Our Song (1980–81), Channing was the female lead. In the 1981 Long Wharf Theatre (New Haven) production of Peter Nichols' A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Channing appeared as the mother (Sheila). She revived her role in the Roundabout Theater Company's production, first Off-Broadway in 1985 and then on Broadway in March 1985, and then as Best Actress in a Play in 1985.

Channing continued her appearance by collaborating with playwright John Guare once more. She received Tony Award nominations for her appearances in his plays The House of Blue Leaves (1986) and Six Degrees of Separation (1990), for which she also received an Obie Award. Woman in Mind, directed by Alan Ayckbourn, made its American premiere Off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club in February 1988. Lynne Meadows directed the project, and Channing was cast in Susan's role, for which she received a Drama Desk Award for Best Actress. When asked if Susan was Channing's most fully realized person, the actress replied: yes.

Channing appeared in the Royal Court Theatre in John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation, which then travelled to the Comedy Theatre in the West End for a season. In 2017 she appeared in Apologia at the Trafalgar Studios and then in 2021 in Night Mother at the Hampstead Theatre.

During this period, she received acclaim for her television work. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for the CBS miniseries Echoes in the Darkness (1987) and received a CableACE Award for the Harvey Fierstein-scripted Tidy Endings (HBO, 1988). Other television film credits during the 1980s include the CBS teenage drug abuse-themed Not My Child (1985; co-starring George Segal), Hallmark's domestic drama The Room Upstairs (1987; starring Sam Waterston, Joan Allen, and Sarah Jessica Parker), and HBO's True Witness (1989; starring Brian Dennehy and Aidan Quinn.)

In the film version of Six Degrees of Separation, Channing reprised her lead role as an Upper East Side matron. For her appearance, she was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. She made several films in a row: Thank You, Wong Foo! Carol Ann and Smoke (1995); a cameo appearance in The First Wives Club; up Close and Personal (as Marcia McGrath); and Moll Flanders (both 1996). She was nominated for a Screen Actor Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress, Smoke, and for Moll Flanders, she was nominated for the Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress, Drama.

Channing spent the late 1990s to be involved in film, television, and stage production. In 1996 and its sequel, An Unexpected Life, she appeared in An Unexpected Family, which was released in the United States. She was nominated for the Best Support Female Award in the Baby Dance in 1998 for her role as one-half of an infertile couple. She appeared on stage in Tom Stoppard's Hapgood (1995) and Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes (1997). In the animated film Batman Beyond, Channing voiced Barbara Gordon during this period.

In 1990, Channing was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress three times: in 1991, for Six Degrees of Separation; and in 1999, for The Lion in Winter.

In 1999, Channing took on the role of First Lady Abbey Bartlet in the NBC television series The West Wing. She appeared on the show's first two seasons as a regular cast member in 2001. Channing appeared in only four episodes (including the series finale) in the CBS sitcom Out of Practice at the same time in the seventh and final season of The West Wing (2005-2006). After one season, CBS pulled Out of Practice.

In 2002, Channing was given several awards. For her appearance on The West Wing, she received the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. Shepard appeared in The Matthew Shepard Story, a docudrama about Matthew Shepard's life and murder, that same year.

Channing was named Best Actress of the Year by the London Film Critics Circle in 2002 for her role in the film The Business of Strangers. She was also nominated for the American Film Institute Best Actress award for the Business of Strangers. In 2003, she was given the Women in Film Lucy Award.

Channing received a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance in a Children/Youth/Family Special for Jack (2004), a Showtime TV movie about a young man who is trying to figure out why his father left the family for another man. Channing was Jack's mother.

She was chosen for the second narrator of the Animal Planet hit series Meerkat Manor in 2008, replacing Sean Astin, who appeared in the first three seasons. Vera Simpson, a theatrical performer, appeared in November 2008 in the musical Pal Joey and was nominated for the 2009 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical.

Channing appeared in Out of Practice with Henry Winkler in 2005, earning an Emmy Award for her performance. Lydia Barnes, Stewart Barnes' ex-wife (Winkler), had two sons and a lesbian daughter (Christopher Gorham, Paula Marshall, Ty Burrell). The program aired for one season (22 episodes).

Channing appeared in The Good Wife from 2012 to 2013. Veronica Loy, the title character's mother, appeared in the role until the final season in 2016.

In Rough Magic Theatre Company's production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, she returned to the stage in June 2010 to Dublin's Gaiety Theatre Company to play Lady Bracknell. As of October 2011, Channing appeared in Other Desert Cities Off-Broadway at Lincoln Center and then on Broadway. Channing was nominated for the Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Actress in a Play, and the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for Other Desert Cities. She appeared in Apologia, which had a limited run in London, and then moved to the Roundabout Theatre Co. in NYC in 2018.

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