* 1944 – Stockard Channing, American actress

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.

Stockard Channing ( born Susan Antonia Williams Stockard ; February 13, 1944 ) is a two-time Emmy and one-time Tony Award winning American stage, film and television actress.

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.

There he played in minstrel and medicine shows, and, as with other Texas musicians such as Ocie Stockard, continued to earn money as a barber.

For the role, Channing went through considerable transformation, with the syndicated column " TV Scout " reporting months later, " It was a great make-up job — at least the part that made very pretty Stockard look so ugly.

On May 22, 1977, Stockard along with Ned Beatty starred in the Pilot for the short lived TV series Lucan.

In 1986, the novel was made into a popular film, directed by Peter Medak, with the screenplay by Michaels, and starring Roy Scheider, Harvey Keitel, Stockard Channing and Frank Langella.

by Clifford Odets directed by Michael Attenborough with Stockard Channing ( September 2007 )

* In a sixth-season The West Wing episode called " A Good Day ", President Bartlet ( Martin Sheen ) sings part of the song while dancing in the Oval Office with the First Lady, Abby ( Stockard Channing ).

In North America it has been retitled Walking with Prehistoric Beasts, and the original Discovery Channel broadcast was narrated by Stockard Channing.

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

The film focuses on 10-year-old Devon Stockard ( Mischa Barton ), a precocious and lonely young girl who has recently moved into a gated community called Camelot Gardens with her parents, Morton and Clare ( Christopher McDonald and Kathleen Quinlan ).

Channing reprised her role in the London première in 1992 at the Royal Court Theatre, with Paul Shelley as Flan and an early appearance by Adrian Lester as Paul.

* 1981, Channing was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame.

* Lowell High School renamed its auditorium " The Carol Channing Theatre " in her honor.

Channing started her acting career with the experimental Theatre Company of Boston and eventually performed in the group's Off-Broadway 1969 production of the Elaine May play Adaptation / Next.

In 1994, he appeared as Dr. Nigel Channing, chairman of the Imagination Institute and host of an ' Inventor of the Year ' awards show in the three-dimensional film Honey, I Shrunk the Audience !, which was an attraction at Walt Disney World's Epcot from 1994 until 2010 and at Disneyland from 1998 until 2010.

In 2010, Channing and his wife Lauren then established The Frye Family Foundation in order to give back to the communities that are important to the Fryes, in particular, Portland, Oregon and Phoenix, Arizona.

Tighe has also made recent appearances on the following shows: Numb3rs as Keith Watts ( 2008 ), Leverage for two episodes as Ian Blackpoole ( 2009 ), Lie to Me as Fletcher Bellwood ( 2009 ), and Trauma as Captain Channing ( 2010 ), which was intended as a nod to Emergency !.

In 2010 the event was broadcast LIVE via the internet for the first time at PokerInEuropeLive. com with commentary provided my Mike Carlson, Pete Singleton, and Neil Channing.