Stockard Channing in Life or Something Like It (2002)
With an Oscar nomination, a Tony Award, plus four Tony nominations, five Emmy nominations and two Golden Globe nominations and a SAG Award nomination, STOCKARD CHANNING (Deborah Connors) is one of America's most well respected actresses. Currently, she can be seen on NBC's hit drama The West Wing as First Lady Abigail Bartlet. She also stars in the feature film The Business of Strangers, as a successful businesswoman, whose life is changed in one evening after meeting an unconventional young woman played by Julia Stiles.
Channing recently completed the Showtime movie, The Red Door, opposite Keifer Sutherland and Kyra Sedgwick. Her next television film is The Matthew Shepard Story, opposite Sam Waterston.
Her most recent Tony nomination was for her role as Eleanor of Aquitane in The Lion in Winter, opposite Laurence Fishburne. Channing also received a Tony nomination for the stage version of Six Degrees of Separation as well as an Obie®, The Distinguished Performance of the Year from the New York Drama League and an Oliver Award nomination for the London production. She won a Tony Award for her work in Joe Egg, which also earned her nominations for a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critic's Circle Award. Other stage credits include House of Blue Leaves (Tony nomination), Four Baboons Adoring the Sun, The Little Foxes, Hapgood (Drama Desk nomination), Love Letters, Woman in Mind (Drama Desk award), The Rink, The Golden Age, and They 're Playing Our Song and the original production of Love Letter.
In the feature film version of Six Degrees of Separation, Channing earned an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe nomination. In the film Smoke, Channing received a SAG Award nomination and she won a People's Choice Award for her role in Grease. Other film credits include Isn't She Great, Practical Magic, for which she received a Blockbuster® Award, Twilight, The First Wives Club, Moll Flanders, To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar, Married to It, Meet the Apple gates, Staying Together, Destiny, Heartburn, The Men 's Club, The Fortune, The Cheap Detective, Sweet Revenge, The Big Bus, and Without a Trace.
Channing was seen in the Lifetime Network movie The Truth About Jane, which earned her a SAG Award nomination. She was also recently seen in the Showtime mini series It's A Girl Thing. Channing's performance in Showtime's Baby Dance, opposite Laura Dern earned her nominations for an Emmy, a Golden Globe and an Independent Spirit Award. Channing starred in An Unexpected Life for the USA Network, the sequel to An Unexpected Family, for which she received an Emmy nomination. Her other television credits include the Disney Channel's The Road to Avonlea, for which she received an Emmy nomination Perfect Witness, for HBO which also earned her an Emmy nomination and CBS's David's Mother and Echoes in the Darkness. She received a Cable Ace Award for her work in HBO's On Tidy Endings. Other television credits include NBC's The Prosecutors, Showtime's Lily Dale, The Hallmark Hall of Fame production of The Room Upstairs, Lou Antonio's Silent Victory: The Story of Kitty O'Neal, CBS's The Stockard Channing Show, and The Girl Most Likely To.