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    An interview with Stockard Channing

    with Stockard Channing on Dec 2, 1996

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Stockard Channing is an American Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress. She co-starred with Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson in Mike Nichols’ “The Fortune”. Then she took on the role of high school teenager Betty Rizzo in the hit musical “Grease”. That year, she also played Peter Falk’s unpretentious but determined secretary in Neil Simon’s play “The Cheap Detective”.

Channing received Tony nominations for her performances in John Guare?s plays, “The House of Blue Leaves” and “Six Degrees of Separation”. She was also nominated for an Emmy for the CBS miniseries “Echoes in the Darkness” and won a CableACE Award for the Harvey Fierstein-scripted “Tidy Endings”.

In 1999, Channing took on the role of First Lady Abbey Bartlet in the television series “The West Wing”. For this she won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2002, and she also won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie’ for her portrayal of “Judy Sheppard” in “The Matthew Shepard Story”. Channing has also been nominated for many other awards, including an Academy Award nomination in 1994 for Best Actress in a Leading Role for the film adaptation “Six Degrees of Separation”.

Source- Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockard_Channing