February 13: Happy Birthday Stockard Channing

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Screen and stage star Stockard Channing, who is 73 today, has received over twenty nominations for major acting awards (Emmy, Tony, Oscar, Golden Globe) in her career. She began working in theater in the late sixties and made her Broadway debut in 1971. She also began working in film at about that time, receiving a Golden Globe nomination for Best Acting Debut for The Fortune, and becoming well-known when she played Betty Rizzo in the film version of the musical Grease.

Following Grease, Channing starred in two short-lived TV series. During the eighties, her theater career bloomed; she won a Tony for starring in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg and was nominated for two more, including one for John Guare’s Six Degrees of Separation. When the play was adapted to film in 1993, Channing reprised her role of Ouisa Kittredge and received Oscar and Golden Globe nominations.

In the last 20 years plus, Channing has appeared in films such as To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, Moll Flanders, and The Business of Strangers. Her stage work has ranged from Pal Joey to The Lion in Winter (both of which brought her Tony nominations). On television, she was a six-time Emmy nominee as Abbey Bartlett on The West Wing, winning Outstanding Supporting Actress in 2002, the same year she won another Emmy for The Matthew Shepard Story. And there’s even more, but I don’t have the space. 🙂

[king of comedy]

Happy Birthday Stockard! aka Rizzo!