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Stockard Channing |
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Name: Stockard Channing
Birth Name: Susan Antonia Williams Stockard
Height: 5' 3''
Sex: F
Nationality: American
Birth Date: February 13, 1944
Birth Place: New York, New York, USA
Profession: Actress, Director, Producer
Education: Madeira School, McLean, Virginia
Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts (graduated in1965; BA in American History and Literature)
Husband/Wife: David Rawle (married in 1980; divorced in 1988), David Debin (producer, writer; married in 1976; divorced in 1980), Paul Schmidt (actor; married in 1970; divorced in 1976), Walter Channing (married in 1963; divorced in 1967)
Father: Lester Napier Stockard (business executive, shipping magnate; died in 1950)
Mother: Mary Alice Stockard (née English; from a large, Irish-Catholic family in Brooklyn, New York)
Sister: Lesly Stockard
Claim to fame: Played spunky Pink Ladies member Rizzo in the film version of Grease (1978)
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- Pled no contest to driving under the influence. Channing was fined $390, given three years' probation, and ordered to attend an alcohol education class. (October 2005)
- Was arrested and charged with driving under the influence after being stopped while driving on the shoulder of the Hollywood Freeway in Los Angeles. (December 14, 2004)
- When Stockard broke her ankle in 2001 while on a hiking trip, instead of working around it, Aaron Sorkin wrote in into The West Wing.
- Martin Sheen is the only actor that she lets call her by her real name, Susan.
- Her stage name is a combination of her maiden and first married names.
- Discovered she had gotten her role as First Lady Abigail Bartlet on The West Wing, while on a hiking trip.
- Her father, Lester Napier Stockard, was a well known shipping magnate from New York City.
- Stockard's older sister, Lesly Smith, was once the Mayor of Palm Beach, Florida.
- Is a vocal and long-time supporter of abortion rights.
- Has appeared in 3 movies with actor Sam Waterston, twice portraying his wife.
- Was in Shania Twain's No One Needs To Know Now video.
- Auditioned for the role of Lois Lane in Superman (1978), but lost to Margot Kidder.
- Graduated from Harvard University (specifically, its female-only Radcliffe College), with a BA in history and literature.
- Provides the voice over for the film about the history of Pearl Harbor shown at the USS Arizona Memorial for the National Park Service.
- She was 34 years old when she played the high-school aged Rizzo in Grease.
- MORE STOCKARD CHANNING TRIVIA
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