* 1944 – Stockard Channing, American actress

Stockard Channing, in the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin in 2010, hushed the line, in a critic's words ," with a barely audible ' A handbag?

She meets Sister Husband ( Stockard Channing ), a woman who runs the Welcome Wagon in town, and mistakenly believes Novalee to be her long-lost relative Ruth Ann.

The play was revived in March 1999, starring Laurence Fishburne as Henry and Stockard Channing as Eleanor, directed by Michael Mayer.

Directed by Jack O ' Brien, the cast included Stockard Channing as Regina, Kenneth Welsh as Horace, Brian Kerwin as Oscar, Brian Murray as Benjamin, and Frances Conroy as Birdie.

Six Degrees of Separation is a 1990 play written by John Guare that premiered at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, Lincoln Center, on May 16, 1990, directed by Jerry Zaks and starring Stockard Channing.

The original cast included Stockard Channing as Ouisa, John Cunningham as Flan, and James McDaniel as Paul.

Guare adapted the play for film released in 1993 directed by Fred Schepisi with Stockard Channing ( reprising her role as Ouisa Kittredge ), Donald Sutherland, Ian McKellen, Anthony Rapp and Will Smith.

* Stockard Channing as E. R.

A prolific actor, some of Sutherland's better-known roles in the 1980s and 1990s were in the South African apartheid drama A Dry White Season ( 1989 ), alongside Marlon Brando and Susan Sarandon ; as an incarcerated pyromaniac in the firefighter thriller Backdraft ( 1989 ) alongside Kurt Russell and Robert De Niro, Lock Up ( 1991 ) with Sylvester Stallone ; and as the snobbish NYC art dealer in Six Degrees of Separation ( 1993 ), with Stockard Channing and Will Smith.

In Andrew Bergman's Isn't She Great, a highly fictionalized account of the life and career of author Jacqueline Susann, she played alongside Nathan Lane and Stockard Channing, portraying Susann with her early struggles as an aspiring actress relentlessly hungry for fame, her relationship with press agent Irving Mansfield, her success as the author of Valley of the Dolls, and her battle with and subsequent death from breast cancer.

* Betty Rizzo, the character played by Stockard Channing in the 1978 film Grease

But the acclaimed cast of the show — including Allison Janney, Richard Schiff, Dulé Hill, John Spencer, Bradley Whitford, Martin Sheen ( whose President Bartlet was initially scripted as a small role ) and Stockard Channing ( whose First Lady was initially scripted as a guest role )— meant that Sam Seaborn could no longer be considered the lead character.

In 1973, Rivers wrote the TV movie The Girl Most Likely to ..., a black comedy starring Stockard Channing.

* Jack ( 2004 film ), a 2004 film starring Anton Yelchin and Stockard Channing

Stockard Channing — who went on to greater fame in Grease and The West Wing — appeared in four of the sketches, playing the lady at the picnic (# 3 ); the woman holding the umbrella (# 4 ); the woman inside the elevator having her plastic handbag painted on (# 7 ); and finally, the nurse saying " Next " to her patients (# 11 ).

He then appeared with Stockard Channing in the Broadway production of Six Degrees of Separation before returning to Los Angeles to pursue roles on television.

The opera singer Jessye Norman was listed ; many celebrities or their families were listed such as Chevy Chase, Glenn Close, Stockard Channing, Harry Hamlin, Kyra Sedgwick, James Spader, Julia Child, and Fox News ' Brit Hume and Tucker Carlson.

* The Fortune, a 1975 film starring Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson and Stockard Channing

The independent film was directed by Patrick Stettner ; it stars Stockard Channing and Julia Stiles.

The film was written and directed by Woody Allen, produced by his sister Letty Aronson, and stars Jason Biggs, Christina Ricci, Woody Allen, Stockard Channing, Danny DeVito, Jimmy Fallon and KaDee Strickland.

* Stockard Channing as Paula Chase

Jennifer Beals, Jennifer Grey, Jamie Lee Curtis, Glenn Close, Ally Sheedy, Diane Keaton, Stockard Channing, Annie Potts, Robin Wright, Nancy Allen, Joan Allen, Rosanna Arquette, Kim Basinger, Ellen Barkin, Patricia Clarkson, Geena Davis, Laura Dern, Linda Fiorentino, Bridget Fonda, Carrie Fisher, Jodie Foster, Melanie Griffith, Linda Hamilton, Daryl Hannah, Helen Hunt, Holly Hunter, Goldie Hawn, Anjelica Huston, Amy Irving, Nicole Kidman, Diane Lane, Christine Lahti, Jessica Lange, Sally Field, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Heather Locklear, Andie MacDowell, Madonna, Virginia Madsen, Demi Moore, Emma Thompson, Uma Thurman, Tatum O ' Neal, Annette O ' Toole, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michelle Pfeiffer, Greta Scacchi, Elisabeth Shue, Mary Steenburgen, Julia Roberts, Mimi Rogers, Isabella Rossellini, Meg Ryan, Meryl Streep, Sissy Spacek, Kathleen Turner, Sigourney Weaver and Debra Winger were all offered but turned down the role of Catherine Tramell.

Channing was born in New York City, the daughter of Mary Alice ( née English ), who came from a large Brooklyn-based Irish Catholic family, and Lester Napier Stockard ( died 1960 ), who was in the shipping business.

It stars Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman, Reese Witherspoon, Stockard Channing, and James Garner.

The ensemble cast includes Madeline Kahn, Louise Fletcher, Ann-Margret, Eileen Brennan, Stockard Channing, Marsha Mason, Sid Caesar, John Houseman, Dom DeLuise, Abe Vigoda, James Coco, Phil Silvers, Fernando Lamas, Nicol Williamson, Scatman Crothers, and Paul Williams.

* Stockard Channing in Just Friends ( 13 episodes, 1979 )

* The Stockard Channing Show ( 13 episodes, 1980 )

Dr. Abigail Anne " Abbey " Barrington Bartlet, MD, is a fictional character played by Stockard Channing on the television serial drama, The West Wing.

The Big Bus is a 1976 American comedy film starring Stockard Channing and Joe Bologna, and directed by James Frawley.

Up Close & Personal is a 1996 American romantic drama film directed by Jon Avnet, and starring Robert Redford as a news director and Michelle Pfeiffer as his protegée, with Stockard Channing, Joe Mantegna and Kate Nelligan in supporting roles.

The film is narrated by Stockard Channing.

The Girl Most Likely to ... is a black comedy with slight psychological thriller elements written by Joan Rivers and starring Stockard Channing and Edward Asner.

Ben's father, Stewart Barnes ( Henry Winkler ), is a gastroenterologist who is happy to be free from the influence of his ex-wife, Lydia Barnes ( Stockard Channing in her third sitcom starring role following Stockard Channing in Just Friends and The Stockard Channing Show ), a status-conscious cardiologist and mother of their three children.

It was founded by Virginia Alice Cottey Stockard in 1884, and is currently owned and supported by the P. E. O.

* Primetime Emmy Award in 2002 for " Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie " for Stockard Channing for her role as Judy Shepard

Stockard Channing won a Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Supporting Actress-Romance.

Stockard Channing was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress but lost to Marilyn Hassett in The Other Side of the Mountain.

During the 1983-84 season at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, Ms Lortel co-produced Michael Cristofer's The Lady and the Clarinet starring Stockard Channing, followed by Woza Albert !, which received an Obie Award.

Stockard Channing appears briefly in the uncredited role of Beverly, a literary agent who criticizes Oscar's affecting the persona of an American writer in Paris as passé and unmarketable.

* Stockard Channing, American actress