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Stockard Channing
Birth at
13 February 1944
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Stockard Channing is an American film, television and theater actress. Channing is originally from New York and has Irish maternal roots. In 1963, at the age of nineteen, she married Walter Channing. Stockard began acting in the Boston Theatre Company, as a result of which she began to appear on the New York stage, and in 1971 she made her debut on Broadway.
In 1971, Channing made her debut on the big screen in the film Hospital, and after small roles on film screens, she managed to achieve fame
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Stockard Channing is an American film, television and theater actress.
Channing is originally from New York and has Irish maternal roots. In 1963, at the age of nineteen, she married Walter Channing. Stockard began acting in the Boston Theatre Company, as a result of which she began to appear on the New York stage, and in 1971 she made her debut on Broadway.
In 1971, Channing made her debut on the big screen in the film Hospital, and after small roles on film screens, she managed to achieve fame in the film Destiny with Jack Nicholson in the title role.
In 1978, the actress played with aspiring film actor John Travolta and star Olivia Newton-John in the film adaptation of the musical “Grease”. Despite her age, Stockard perfectly coped with the role of a high school girl – the leader of the girls at the school where the action unfolded. After several failures in film and television in the early eighties, she returned to the theater, where in 1985 Channing was awarded the Tony Award for his participation in the play “Day of Joe Egg’s Death”.
The actress was able to achieve success in cinema again in 1993, when for her role in the film
"Six degrees of alienation" She was nominated for the Golden Globe and Oscar awards. Two years later, Channing was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance in the theater. Later, there were successful roles in the films Smoke, Twilight and Wong Fu, with gratitude for everything! Julie Newmar."
In the late nineties Stockard became incredibly popular in three directions at once - on television, in cinema and on the theater stage. On the big screen, Channing successfully showed herself in the films “Practical Magic”, “Something else” and
"Where the heart is" . For her television work in the serial film “The West Wing” and the film “The Story of Matthew Shepard”, the actress was awarded two Emmy awards in 2002.