Stockard Channing
Stockard Channing | |
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Born | Susan Antonia Williams Stockard February 13, 1944 New York City, New York, U.S. |
Education | Harvard University (BA) |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1969–present |
Spouses | David Rawle
(m. 1980; div. 1988) |
Partner | Daniel Gillam (1990–2014) |
Stockard Channing (born Susan Antonia Williams Stockard; February 13, 1944)
Channing won the 1985
Early life and education
Channing was born in Manhattan, and she grew up on the Upper East Side.[2] She was the daughter of Mary Alice (née English),[3] who came from a large Brooklyn Irish Roman Catholic family, and Lester Napier Stockard (died 1960), who was in the shipping business. Her elder sister is Lesly Stockard Smith, former mayor of Palm Beach, Florida.[4][5][6]
Channing is an alumna of the Madeira School in McLean, Virginia, a boarding school for girls, which she attended after starting at the Chapin School in New York City.[2] She studied history and literature at Radcliffe College of Harvard University in Massachusetts and graduated summa cum laude in 1965.[6] She received her acting training at HB Studio[7] in New York City.
Career
Early career
Channing started her acting career with the experimental Theatre Company of
Channing made her television debut on
After some small parts in feature films, Channing co-starred with Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson in Mike Nichols' The Fortune (1975). Despite Channing being tagged "the next big thing" in cinema, and the actress herself considering this some of the best work of her career, the movie did poorly at the box office and did not prove to be the breakthrough role Channing hoped it would be. On May 22, 1977, she, along with Ned Beatty, starred in the pilot for the short-lived TV series Lucan. Lucan, played by Kevin Brophy, is a 20-year-old who has spent the first 10 years of his life running wild in the forest. After being raised by wolves, Lucan strikes out on his own in search of his identity.
In 1977, at the age of 33, Channing was cast for the role of high school teenager Betty Rizzo in the hit musical
In addition, during the second half of the 1970s, Channing played a mischievous
1980s
Channing starred in two short-lived sitcoms on
Channing played the female lead in the Broadway show,
Channing continued her return to the stage by teaming up again with playwright John Guare. She received Tony Award nominations for her performances in his plays, The House of Blue Leaves (1986) and Six Degrees of Separation (1990), for which she also won an Obie Award.[21] The Alan Ayckbourn play Woman in Mind received its American premiere Off-Broadway in February 1988 at the Manhattan Theatre Club. The production was directed by Lynne Meadow and the cast included Channing in the role of Susan, for which she won a Drama Desk Award for Best Actress.[22] When once asked if Susan was Channing's most fully realized character, the actress replied:
Well, you like to think that they're all fully realized because what you're doing is different from what anyone else is seeing. You do a character but how much of it is on film, or how much of it is seen by an audience, is really up to the director, the piece, or the audience. And so, I just do these people. And flesh them out. I think anything else is not my job.[23]
Channing made her London theatre debut in 1992 at the Royal Court Theatre in John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation, which then transferred for a season at the Comedy Theatre in the West End. In 2017 she returned to London to appear in Apologia at the Trafalgar Studios and again in 2021 in Night Mother at the Hampstead Theatre.
She also garnered recognition for her work in television during this time. She was nominated for an
1990s
Channing reprised her lead role as an Upper East Side matron in the film version of
Channing kept busy with film, television, and stage roles throughout the late 1990s.
Channing was nominated for the
The West Wing
In 1999, Channing took on the role of
Later work
Channing received several awards in 2002. She won the
Channing received the 2002
In 2005, Channing won a
She was selected for the second narrator of the
In 2005, Channing starred in Out of Practice with Henry Winkler, receiving an Emmy nomination for her role. She played the role of Lydia Barnes, ex-wife of Stewart Barnes (Winkler), and had two sons and a lesbian daughter (Christopher Gorham, Paula Marshall, Ty Burrell). The show aired for one season (22 episodes).
From 2012, Channing played a recurring role in The Good Wife. She played the role of the title character's mother, Veronica Loy until the final season in 2016.
She returned to the stage in June 2010, to Dublin's Gaiety Theatre to play Lady Bracknell in Rough Magic Theatre Company's production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.[36] Channing appeared in the play Other Desert Cities Off-Broadway at Lincoln Center and then on Broadway, as of October 2011.[37] Channing was nominated for the Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Actress in a Play, and the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play for Other Desert Cities.[38] In 2018, she played the lead in Apologia, which had a limited run in London, and then moved to the Roundabout Theatre Co. in NYC.
Channing also narrated the audiobook, “Frankie & Bug”, written by Gayle Forman, released in 2021
In May 2023, Channing appeared in ITV’s three part series “Maryland” alongside Suranne Jones and Eve Best, playing a character named Cathy.
Personal life
Channing has been married and divorced four times; she has no children.
In 2019, Channing was residing in London.[44]
Filmography
Discography
- 1978: Grease: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture (RSO)
"Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee" featuring Didi Conn, Dinah Manoff and Jamie Donnelly
"There Are Worse Things I Could Do"
Awards and nominations
References
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- ^ "Philanthropist Mary Alice Fortin dies in Florida". The Associated Press. March 16, 2007. Retrieved February 11, 2015.
Mary Alice Fortin, philanthropist and mother of actress Stockard Channing, died Wednesday night in Palm Beach, Fla., after an extended illness. She was 97.
- ^ Shannon Donnelly (March 14, 2011). "Lesly Smith gets Alexis de Tocqueville Society's Distinguished Citizen Award". Palm Beach Daily News. Archived from the original on February 12, 2015. Retrieved February 12, 2015.
- ^ "Stockard Channing takes wing". Joshlyman.com. Retrieved April 22, 2013.
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- ^ "HB Studio – Notable Alumni | One of the Original Acting Studios in NYC".
- ^ "'Adaptation/Next' Listing" Archived October 19, 2012, at the Wayback Machine Internet Off-Broadway database Listing, accessed April 28, 2012
- ^ Richard Lebherz. "Joys and sorrows of a revival," News-Post (Frederick, Maryland), October 16, 1970, page A-8.
- ^ R. W. Stiles. "Light Opera Review: 'Two Gentlemen': Shakespeare in Rock," Pasadena Star-News, May 13, 1973, page 11.
- ^ William Glover, Associated Press. "New Broadway comedy is short on charm, taste," Oakland Tribune, April 10, 1973, page E-30.
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- ^ "TV Scout" (column). "TV's best bet: The girl most likely to... does... entertain," Lowell Sun, November 6, 1973, page 29.
- ^ "Tuesday's Television," The Warren Times Observer, November 11, 1973, page B-15.
- ^ "Ask TV Scout" (syndicated Q&A column), Anniston Star (Ala.), January 31, 1974, page 6B.
- ^ "List of 1979 Awards" People's Choice Awards.com
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- ^ Kuchwara, Michael. "A Revival of 'A Day in the Death of Joe Egg' Opens Off-Broadway" Associated Press, (apnewsarchive.com), January 6, 1985
- ^ Robertson, Nan. 'Joe Egg' Offers Stars Escape And Gratification" The New York Times, January 9, 1985
- ^ "'Joe Egg' Listing, Longacre Theatre, 1985" Internet Broadway Database Listing, accessed April 29, 2012
- ^ 1991/ Obies, 1991 villagevoice.com
- ^ " Woman in Mind Listing" Archived October 19, 2012, at the Wayback Machine Internet Off-Broadway Database, accessed April 29, 2012
- BOMB MagazineWinter, 1989. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
- ^ "Cast and Crew, 'To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar'" tcm.com, accessed April 29, 2012
- ^ "Cast and Crew; 'Up Close and Personal'" tcm.com, accessed April 29, 2012
- ^ ("The nominees announced Thursday for the second annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, to be presented Feb. 24, were: Feature films:... Female actor, supporting role: Stockard Channing, Smoke") (no author). "Screen Actors Guild Award nominees", United Press International, January 18, 1996, Domestic News
- ^ "Stockard Channing Tony Award Listing" broadwayworld.com, accessed April 29, 2012
- ^ ("Question: Will you still be appearing on "The West Wing"? Answer: Yes. I don't know what the plots are. We will probably have to do it during one of our hiatuses because we have three weeks on and one week off.") (no author). "Sitcom was easy choice for Channing", Pittsburgh Tribune Review, September 26, 2005 (no page number)
- ^ ("CBS is pulling two low-rated comedies from its Wednesday lineup to make room for "Race. ""Out of Practice", starring Henry Winkler and Stockard Channing, and "Courting Alex", starring Jenna Elfman, will be shelved, possibly to return this summer."). McDaniel, Mike. "On TV, it's the circle of shelf life; Networks' changes include return, relocation and the removal of some shows", The Houston Chronicle, April 1, 2006, p.10
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- ^ "'The Business of Strangers' (2001)" The New York Times, accessed April 29, 2012
- ^ Lucy Award, past recipients Archived August 30, 2011, at the Wayback Machine WIF.org
- ^ Heffernan, Virginia. "Dad's Out of the Closet; His Child Wants to Hide", The New York Times, June 18, 2004, p. 24 (Television Review)
- ^ "Winners at 32nd annual Daytime Emmy Awards", The Associated Press, May 20, 2005, Entertainment News
- ^ Gans, Andrew and Jones, Kenneth. "Nominations for 2009 Tony Awards Announced; Billy Elliot Earns 15 Nominations" Archived June 4, 2011, at the Wayback Machine playbill.com, May 5, 2009
- ^ Cox, Gordon. "Stockard Channing to topline 'Earnest' " Variety (New York, Los Angeles), January 25, 2010
- ^ Hetrick, Adam. "'Other Desert Cities', With Stockard Channing, Stacy Keach, Judith Light, Arrives on Broadway Oct. 12" Archived April 19, 2012, at the Wayback Machine playbill.com, October 12, 2011
- ^ Jones, Kenneth. "Drama Desk Awards Go to 'Book of Mormon', 'Normal Heart', 'War Horse', Sutton Foster, Norbert Leo Butz" Archived August 12, 2014, at the Wayback Machine playbill.com, May 23, 2011
- ^ Clare Rudebeck,"One Tough Cookie[permanent dead link]", The Independent (London), February 16, 2005.
- ^ Zoe Williams. "Lousy with dignity," The Guardian, May 11, 2002.
- ^ Reilly, Sue. "Rizzo's Resurrection" in People, July 16, 1979.
- ^ Lipton, Michael A. (January 14, 2002). "Lady of the House". PEOPLE.com.
- ^ Polly Vernon, "What I know about men...", The Observer, April 29, 2006
- ^ Maxwell, Dominic (October 9, 2021). "Stockard Channing: 'I used to be grumpy about Grease'". The Times. Archived from the original on June 12, 2022.
External links
- Stockard Channing at AllMovie
- Stockard Channing at IMDb
- Stockard Channing at the Internet Broadway Database
- Stockard Channing at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
- Stockard Channing at the TCM Movie Database
- Stockard Channing Interview by Craig Gholson at Bomb (Winter, 1989)