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• Stockard Channing is an American film, stage and television actress and has appeared in Six Degrees of Separation, Up Close and Personal and Practical Magic. She has also appeared as First Lady Abbey Bartlet in television series The West Wing.

  Channing was nominated for a Best Actress in a Musical Tony Award for her role in the revival of Pal Joey.Tony Awards: Nominations

• Fast Facts

  1. Birth name: Susan Antonia Williams Stockard
  2. Born: February 13, 1944
  3. Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
  4. Spouse: David Rawle (divorced), David Debin (divorced), Paul Schmidt (divorced) and Walter Channing (divorced). Fancast: Stockard Channing Trivia
  5. Children: none
  6. Debut movie/TV show: Sesame Street
  7. Awards: 2002 Screen Actors Guild Best Actress in a Television Movie and 10 nominations in different award giving bodies. New York Times: Stockard Channing Profile
  8. A current relationship with Daniel Gilham Fancast: Stockard Channing Trivia
  9. Doing a commercial ad for AIG Company

• Notable Roles

  • Betty Rizzo in Grease (1978)
  • Jane Applegate in Meet the Applegates (1991)
  • Louisa Kittredge in Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
  • Marcia McGrath in Up Close and Personal (1996)
  • Aunt Frances Owens in Practical Magic (1998)
  • Deborah Connors in Life or Something Like It (2002)
  • Dolly in Must Love Dogs (2005)
  • Abbey Bartlet in The West Wing TV Series (2005)

• Quotes

  1. "I can only act. I tried to give up years ago but I couldn't do it. I can't do anything else, really. I wouldn't know what to do in an office. It's too late now, anyway. Most people, when they go to work, they go an office and sit there and do things I would have no idea of how to do. I can't type. I can't write a letter. I'm absolutely ignorant in many ways that everybody takes for granted."--Stockard Channing in Movieline, 1991 Fancast: Stockard Channing Quotes
  2. "What I love about the theater is the moment of absolute solitude you have in the dark. You're going to walk out of the dark into the light. And something's going to happen."--Stockard Channing quoted in New York, October 22,1990 Fancast: Stockard Channing Quotes

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  The West Wing | Life or Something Like It | Grease | Tony Nominations 2009

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