Stockard Channing

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

Biography

Childhood and youth

It is born with New York To ballast Napier Stockard and Mary Alice English. Raise school The Madeira School with Mac Lean in Virginia (the United States), it obtains its diploma in 1965 Radcliffe College where it had studied the history and the literature. It then decided to be directed towards the career of actress, starting in the theater of Boston, then with New York and Los Angeles (California).

Career

One of its roles of the beginning was in the Televised series 1 rue Sésame . After some short appearances in The Hospital (1971) and Up the Sandbox (1972), she played its first important role in film for television The Girl Most Likely To… (1973). In 1975, she played beside stars like Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson in Good fortune of Mike Nichols. In 1978, 34 years, she plays the part of the teenager Betty Rizzo in Grease , or the determined secretary but without claim of Peter Falk in The Cheap Detective of the scenario writer Neil Simon. Because of these successes, the chain CBS offered to him to direct two Sitcom S for television, Stockard Channing in Just Friends (1979) and The Stockard Channing Show (1980).

In the Years 1980 and 1990, it continues to work for television and the cinema. It also turns over on the boards of the theater, carrying the Tony Award of 1985 for has off Day in the Death Joe Egg of Peter Nichols. In 1990, she plays a giant Blatte in Meet the Applegates of Michael Lehmann.

At the end of the Nineties, it gives voice to Barbara Gordon in the series televised of Animation, Batman, the changing, until its own changing by Angie Harmon ( New York District ) in 2000.

In 1999, she plays the First lady of the United States Abbey Bartlet in the series At the White House . At the beginning, right star invited in the first two seasons, it got along so well with Martin Sheen, his husband-president in the series, Josiah Bartlet, which it became one of the principal members of casting in 2001. In the seventh and last season, (2005 - 2006), its appearances decrease because of its engagements in addition on CBS, in particular in the comic series Out off Practice (in connection with a family of doctors), beside Henry Winkler and Paula Marshall. However, it appears in the last episodes of At the White House in April and May 2006, while Out off Practice will have lasted only one season.

Rewards

It was rewarded for many Awards , including the People' S Choice Awards of 1979 like Favorite Motion Picture Supporting Actress , the CableACE Award of 1989 as Best Actress in has Dramatic gold Theatrical Special (in Tidy Endings ), the London Critics Circle Film ALFS Award of 2003 like Actrice of the year ( Actress off the Year ) for The Business off Strangers , and the Screen Actors Guild Award of 2003 as Outstanding Performance by has Female Actor in has Television Movie however Miniseries (in connection with The Matthew Shepard Story ).

Emmy Award S; for Outstanding Supporting Actress in has Drama Series ( The West Wing ) and Outstanding Supporting Actress in has Miniseries gold has Movie ( The Matthew Shepard Story ). In early July 2006, she received year Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in has off Comedy Series for her performance in the then-canceled Out Practice . Channing has also been nominated for has number off other awards, including the 1994 Academy Award for Best Actress (for Six Dismantle Separation off). -->

Family life

Married and divorced four times, with Walter Channing (of which it kept the last name), Paul Schmidt, David Debin and David Rawle. Since 1988, she attends Daniel Gillham, met on the turning of has Time Destiny off. They reside in the Maine, when she does not work in Los Angeles or New York. In an interview in 2002, Channing it said while smiling of this relation: " The only one that wasn' T has marriage lasts 15 years! "

Catalog of films (partial)

External bonds

  • Site of fan of Stockard Channing

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