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Stockard Channing, born Susan Antonia Williams Stockard on February 13, 1944, is an American actress who’s done it all on stage, film, and TV. She’s best known for playin’ Betty Rizzo in Grease (1978) and First Lady Abbey Bartlet on The West Wing (1999–2006). She also originated the role of Ouisa Kittredge in Six Degrees of Separation, snaggin’ a Tony Award nomination and an Oscar nod for Best Actress for the film version.
With 13 Primetime Emmy nominations and seven Tony nods, she took home the 1985 Tony for Best Actress in a Play for the Broadway revival of A Day in the Death of Joe Egg. She also won Emmys in 2002 for The West Wing and The Matthew Shepard Story, plus a Daytime Emmy in 2004 for Jack. Her film roles include The Fortune (1975), The Cheap Detective (1978), Heartburn (1986), Up Close & Personal (1996), and Practical Magic (1998). She also had a recurrin’ role as Veronica Loy on The Good Wife from 2012 to 2016.
