Stockard Channing (born Susan Antonia Williams Stockard on February 13, 1944) is an American actress. Channing was natural inside New York City to Lester and Mary Stockard, the loaded few. She attended Radcliffe College and Harvard University & has degrees in history and literature. She decided to pursue an acting career, starting in the Boston theatrical community, but around time working in Up to date York & Los Angeles.

One of Channing's earliest roles wwhen as The Number Painter's victim, in a series of segments on Sesame Street. Fallowing brief appearances within 1971's The Hospital and 1972's Up the Sandbox, she landed her first lead role in the acclaimed 1973 television pic The Girl Most Likely To.... Around 1975, she starred alongside Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson in Mike Nichols' The Fortune. Within 1978, Channing played a a portion of Betty Rizzo in the hit musical theater Grease. On the basis of this, CBS offered her the lead within 2 short-ephemeral television sitcoms, Stockard Channing in Merely Friends (1979) & A Stockard Channing Indicate (1980).

inside the Eighties & Nineties, Channing continued to operate in television & film. She as well returned to a stage, winning the 1985 Tony Award for A Day In The Dying Of Joe Egg. Witharound 1990, she played the giant roach in Michael Lehmann's Meet the Applegates.

Inside 1999, Channing took a role of First Lady Abbey Bartlet in the television series The West Wing. She was the revenant guest star for the indicate's number 1 2 seasons &, around 2001, became a independent cast member of the indicate, in which she has stayed ever since. In the coming seventh year (2005–2006), Channing will make at least three appearances—partially due to the closing of her character's story, when her onscreen hubby President Josiah Bartlet (played by Martin Sheen) leaves office, & likewise due to her newly CBS comedy television series, alongside Henry Winkler and Paula Marshall, in Out of Practice (about the personal of doctors).

Channing has won many acting awards for various works, including a 1979 People's Choice Award for Favorite Motion Picture Supporting Actress, the 1989 CableACE Award for Best Actress in a Dramatic or Theatrical Special (for Tidy Endings), the 2003 London Critics Circle Film ALFS Award for Actress of the Year (for The Business of Strangers), and the 2003 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries (for The Matthew Shepard Story). Inside 2002, Channing won 2 Emmy Awards; for Outstanding Supporting Actress around the Drama Series (A West Wing) & Spectacular Supporting Actress within the Miniseries or even the Moving picture (A Matthew Shepard Story). Channing has too been nominated for a total of more awards, including the 1994 Academy Award for Best Actress (for Six Degrees of Separation).

Channing has been married & divorced 4 days, to Walter Channing, Paul Schmidt, David Debin, and David Rawle. She presently accept cinematographer Daniel Gillham. A few lives within Maine when she is not working within Los Angeles.

Stockard Channing mass produced newspaper headline in December 14, 2004, when she was arrested & charged by using driving under the influence after being stopped when camping on the shoulder of the Hollywood Freeway within Los Angeles; she spent a few hours in custody & was discharged forgoing bail. Inside early October 2005, she pled no contest to driving under a influence. Channing was fined $390, given 3 years' probation, and ordered to attend an alcohol education class.

Selected Filmography
The Business of Strangers (2001) Practical Magic (1998) Edie & Pen (1997) Six Degrees of Separation (1993) Married to It (1991) Heartburn (1986) Forgoing the Trace (1983) Grease (1978) The Big Bus (1976) Sweet Revenge (1976) The Fortune (1975)