Updated 04-May-2020.
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My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Stockard Channing is an american actress . she is known for playing Betty Rizzo and First Lady Abbey Bartlet on the NBC television series The West Wing . originating the role of Ouisa Kittredge her sister is Lesly stockard Smith, former mayor of palm beach, florida . she is an alumna of the Madeira school in McLean, Virginia . she received her acting training at HB Studio in New York City . in 1971, she made her Broadway debut in Two Gentlemen of Verona — The Musical . she also appeared on Broadway in 1973 in a supporting role Channing landed her first leading role in the 1973 television movie The Girl Most Likely to… . for the role, Channing went through considerable transformation . “it was a great make-up job … at least the after a few small parts in feature films, Channing co-starred with Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson in The Fortune . the movie did poorly at the box office, and did not prove to be the break-through role in 1977 Channing was cast for the role of high school teenager Betty Rizzo in the hit musical Grease . the film was released in 1978 and her performance earned her the People’s Choice Award for Favorite Motion Picture Support Channing played the female lead in the Broadway show, They’re Playing Our Song . she reprised the role in the roundabout theater company production . Channing continued her return to the stage by teaming up again with play she received Tony Award nominations for her performances in his plays, The House of Blue Leaves (1986) and Six Degrees of Separation (1990), for which she also won an Obie Award . the Alan Ayck she also garnered recognition for her work in television during this time . she was nominated for an Emmy Award for the CBS miniseries Echoes in the Darkness . she was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for her performance . she kept busy with film, television, and stage roles throughout the late 1990s . Channing was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress three times in the 1990s . she was a recurring guest star for the show’s first two seasons . on stage, she performed at Lincoln Center in Channing appeared in only four episodes of the seventh and final season of the westwing . she was co-starring in the CBS sitcom out of practice at the same time . out of Practice was cancelled by CBS after one season Channing was selected for the second narrator of the Animal Planet hit series Meerkat Manor in 2008 . in 2005, Channing starred in Out of Practice with Henry Winkler, receiving an Emmy nomination for Channing played the role of the title character’s mother, Veronica Loy until the final season in 2016 . she appeared in the play Other Desert Cities Off-Broadway at Lincoln Center and then on Broadway . Channing in 2018, she played the lead in “Apologia,” which had a limited run in London . she married Walter Channing in 1963 and kept the amalgamated name “Stockard Channing” after they divorced in couple resides in Maine when not working.