Birth Place: New York, NY, USA
Stockard Channing was most recently seen on Broadway and in London’s West End in Alexi Kaye Campbell’s Apologia. Before that, she was seen on Broadway in Terrence McNally’s smash hit It’s Only A Play. Channing has received eight Tony Award nominations for her roles in Other Desert Cities, Pal Joey, The Lion in Winter, Four Baboons Adoring the Sun, The House of Blue Leaves and Six Degrees of Separation, for which she also received an Olivier nomination and an Obie Award, and was subsequently nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award reprising her role for the 1993 film version. She won the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play for her performance in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg. Other stage credits include The Importance of Being Earnest, The Little Foxes, Hapgood (nominated for Drama Desk Award), Woman in Mind (for which she won a Drama Desk Award), The Rink, The Golden Age, They’re Playing Our Song and the original off-Broadway production of Love Letters.
In London, she has appeared at The Riverside Studios in Exonerated and she was last seen at the Almeida in Awake and Sing.
Channing has received a total of 13 Emmy nominations and won three Emmy Awards, including those for her television roles in The West Wing and The Matthew Shepard Story, both of which she also received Screen Actors Guild Awards. Channing has been nominated for a total of 11 Screen Actors Guild Awards. She also starred in Joan Rivers’ The Girl Most Likely To and The Baby Dance for which she was nominated for another Golden Globe Award. She was most recently seen in a recurring role on The Good Wife.
On the big screen Channing has appeared in Mike Nichols’ The Fortune, Practical Magic, The First Wives Club, Moll Flanders, Up Close & Personal, Smoke and Grease, earning a People’s Choice Award for her performance as Rizzo. Stockard Channing received a London Film Critics Circle Award for Actress of the Year and an AFI Best Actress nomination for The Business of Strangers.
Stockard Channing, Other Desert Cities
Stockard Channing, Other Desert Cities
Stockard Channing, Pal Joey
Stockard Channing, Pal Joey
Stockard Channing, The Lion in Winter
Stockard Channing, Hapgood
Stockard ChanningSix Degrees Of Separation
Stockard Channing , Four Baboons Adoring the Sun
Stockard Channing, Six Degrees of Separation
Stockard Channing, Six Degrees of Separation
Stockard Channing Six Degress of Separation
Stockard Channing, Six Degrees of Separation
Stockard Channing, Six Degrees of Separation
Stockard ChanningWomen in Mind
Stockard Channing, The House of Blue Leaves
Stockard Channing, Joe Egg
Stockard Channing, Joe Egg
Stockard Channing has appeared on Broadway in 15 shows.
Stockard Channing has appeared on London's West End in 1 shows.
Stockard Channing's first West End show was Apologia which opened in 2017
Stockard Channing has been nominated for several prestigious awards throughout her career. These nominations include Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play at the Tony Awards for "Other Desert Cities" and "The Lion in Winter." She has also received nominations for Outstanding Actress in a Play at the Drama Desk Awards for "Other Desert Cities," "Hapgood," and "Women in Mind." Channing's nominations for Outstanding Actress in a Musical at the Drama Desk Awards were for her role in "Pal Joey." Additionally, she was nominated for Best Actress at the Olivier Awards for "Six Degrees Of Separation." Other notable nominations include Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play at the Tony Awards for "The House of Blue Leaves" and Performance at the Obie Awards for "Six Degrees of Separation."
Stockard Channing has won several awards, including the Distinguished Performance Award from the Drama League Awards for "Six Degrees of Separation," a Performance award from the Obie Awards for the same show, an Outstanding Actress - Play award from the Drama Desk Awards for "Women in Mind," and the Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Tony Award for "Joe Egg."
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