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Who was Stockard Channing 's spouse from 1970 to Sep 1976?
Stockard Channing Stockard Channing ( born Susan Williams Antonia Stockard ; February 13 , 1944 ) is an American actress . She is known for playing Betty Rizzo in the film Grease ( 1978 ) and First Lady Abbey Bartlet in the NBC television series The West Wing ( 1999–2006 ) . She is also known for originating the role of Ouisa Kittredge in the stage and film versions of Six Degrees of Separation . Channing won the 1985 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the Broadway revival of A Day in the Death of Joe Egg , and won Emmy Awards for The West Wing and The Matthew Shepard Story , both in 2002 . She won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2004 for her role in Jack . Her film appearances include The Fortune ( 1975 ) , The Big Bus ( 1976 ) , The Cheap Detective ( 1978 ) , Heartburn ( 1986 ) , Up Close & Personal ( 1996 ) , Practical Magic ( 1998 ) , and Woody Allens Anything Else ( 2003 ) . She also played the recurring role of Veronica Loy on the CBS drama The Good Wife ( 2012–16 ) . Early life and education . Channing was born in Manhattan , the daughter of Mary Alice ( née English ; 1910–2007 ) , who came from a large Brooklyn Irish Catholic family , and Lester Napier Stockard ( died 1960 ) , who was in the shipping business . Her sister is Lesly Stockard Smith , former mayor of Palm Beach , Florida . She grew up on the Upper East Side . Channing is an alumna of the Madeira School in McLean , Virginia , a boarding school for girls , which she attended after starting at the Chapin School in New York City . She studied history and literature at Radcliffe College of Harvard University in Massachusetts and graduated summa cum laude in 1965 . She received her acting training at HB Studio in New York City . Career . Early career . Channing started her acting career with the experimental Theatre Company of Boston ; she performed in the groups Off-Broadway 1969 production of the Elaine May play Adaptation/Next . She performed in a revival of Arsenic and Old Lace directed by Theodore Mann as part of the Circle in the Square at Fords Theatre program in 1970 . In 1971 , she made her Broadway debut in Two Gentlemen of Verona — The Musical , working with playwright John Guare . She also appeared on Broadway in 1973 in a supporting role in No Hard Feelings at the Martin Beck Theatre . Channing made her television debut on Sesame Street in the role of The Number Painters female victim . She landed her first leading role in the 1973 television movie The Girl Most Likely to... , a black comedy written by Joan Rivers about an ugly duckling woman , made newly beautiful by plastic surgery after an auto accident , who vows murderous revenge on all who had scorned her . For the role , Channing went through a considerable transformation , with the syndicated column TV Scout reporting months later , It was a great make-up job — at least the part that made very pretty Stockard look so ugly . She had her cheeks puffed out with cotton and her nose was wadded , too , to make it thick and off-center . Very thick eyebrows were drawn on her face and she wore padded clothes to make her look fat . Making her look beautiful was easy . After some small parts in feature films , Channing co-starred with Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson in Mike Nichols The Fortune ( 1975 ) . Despite Channing being tagged the next big thing in cinema , and the actress herself considering this some of the best work of her career , the movie did poorly at the box office and did not prove to be the breakthrough role Channing hoped it would be . On May 22 , 1977 , she , along with Ned Beatty , starred in the pilot for the short-lived TV series Lucan . Lucan , played by Kevin Brophy , is a 20-year-old who has spent the first 10 years of his life running wild in the forest . After being raised by wolves , Lucan strikes out on his own in search of his identity . In 1977 , at the age of 33 , 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 Peoples Choice Award for Favorite Motion Picture Supporting Actress . In addition , during the second half of the 1970s , Channing played a mischievous car thief in Jerry Schatzbergs 1976 dramedy Sweet Revenge ( which competed at the Cannes Film Festival ) , Joseph Bolognas love interest in the disaster film spoof The Big Bus ( also 1976 ) , Peter Falks secretary in the 1978 Neil Simon film The Cheap Detective , and real-life deaf stuntwoman and ( still current ) female land speed record holder Kitty ONeil in the TV movie Silent Victory : The Kitty ONeil Story ( 1979 ) . 1980s . Channing starred in two short-lived sitcoms on CBS in 1979 and 1980 : Stockard Channing in Just Friends and The Stockard Channing Show . In both shows , she co-starred with actress Sydney Goldsmith , who played her best friend in both . When her Hollywood career faltered after these failures , Channing returned to her theatre roots . Nevertheless , she continued to appear in movies , often in supporting roles , including 1983s Without a Trace ( alongside Kate Nelligan and Judd Hirsch ) , Mike Nichols 1986 Heartburn ( re-teaming with Nichols and Jack Nicholson , and co-starring Meryl Streep ) , The Mens Club ( also 1986 ; featuring Roy Scheider , Harvey Keitel , and Jennifer Jason Leigh ) , A Time of Destiny ( 1988 ; with William Hurt , Timothy Hutton , and Melissa Leo ) , and Staying Together ( 1989 ; directed by Lee Grant , and co-starring Melinda Dillon and Levon Helm. ) Channing played the female lead in the Broadway show , Theyre Playing Our Song ( 1980–81 ) . Channing then took the part of the mother ( Sheila ) in the 1981 Long Wharf Theater ( New Haven ) production of Peter Nichols A Day in the Death of Joe Egg . She reprised the role in the Roundabout Theater Company production , first Off-Broadway in January 1985 and then on Broadway in March 1985 , and won the 1985 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play . Channing continued her return to the stage by teaming up again with playwright John Guare . 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 Ayckbourn play Woman in Mind received its American premiere Off-Broadway in February 1988 at the Manhattan Theatre Club . The production was directed by Lynne Meadow and the cast included Channing in the role of Susan , for which she won a Drama Desk Award for Best Actress . When once asked if Susan was Channings most fully realized character , the actress replied : Well , you like to think that theyre all fully realized because what youre doing is different from what anyone else is seeing . You do a character but how much of it is on film , or how much of it is seen by an audience , is really up to the director , the piece , or the audience . And so , I just do these people . And flesh them out . I think anything else is not my job . Channing made her London theatre debut in 1992 at the Royal Court Theatre in John Guares Six Degrees of Separation , which then transferred for a season at the Comedy Theatre in the West End . In 2017 she returned to London to appear in Allegria at the Trafalgar Studios . 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 ( 1987 ) and won a CableACE Award for the Harvey Fierstein-scripted Tidy Endings ( HBO , 1988 ) . Other TV movie credits during the latter half of the 1980s include the CBS teenage drug abuse-themed Not My Kid ( 1985 ; co-starring George Segal ) , Hallmarks domestic drama The Room Upstairs ( 1987 ; with Sam Waterston , Joan Allen , and Sarah Jessica Parker ) , and the HBO thriller Perfect Witness ( 1989 ; alongside Brian Dennehy and Aidan Quinn. ) 1990s . Channing reprised her lead role as an Upper East Side matron in the film version of Six Degrees of Separation . She was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for her performance . She then made several films in quick succession : To Wong Foo , Thanks for Everything ! Julie Newmar as Carol Ann and Smoke ( both 1995 ) ; a cameo appearance in The First Wives Club ; Up Close and Personal ( as Marcia Mcgrath ) ; and Moll Flanders ( all 1996 ) . For Smoke she was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress and for Moll Flanders she was nominated for the Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress , Drama . Channing kept busy with film , television , and stage roles throughout the late 1990s . She starred in the USA Network film An Unexpected Family in 1996 and its sequel , An Unexpected Life , in 1998 . She was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award as Best Supporting Female for her performance as one-half of an infertile couple in The Baby Dance ( also 1998 ) . On stage , she performed at Lincoln Center in Tom Stoppards Hapgood ( 1995 ) and the 1997 revival of Lillian Hellmans The Little Foxes . During this period , Channing voiced Barbara Gordon in the animated series , Batman Beyond . Channing was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress three times in the 1990s : in 1991 , for Six Degrees of Separation ; in 1992 , for Four Baboons Adoring the Sun ; and in 1999 , for The Lion in Winter . The West Wing . In 1999 , Channing took on the role of First Lady Abbey Bartlet in the NBC television series The West Wing . She was a recurring guest star for the shows first two seasons ; she became a regular cast member in 2001 . In the seventh and final season of The West Wing ( 2005–2006 ) , Channing appeared in only four episodes ( including the series finale ) because she was co-starring ( with Henry Winkler ) in the CBS sitcom Out of Practice at the same time . Out of Practice was cancelled by CBS after one season . Beyond The West Wing . Channing received several awards in 2002 . She won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her work on The West Wing . That same year , she also won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress in a Television Movie or Miniseries for her portrayal of Judy Shepard in The Matthew Shepard Story , a docudrama about Matthew Shepards life and murder . Channing received the 2002 London Film Critics Circle Award ( ALFS ) for Best Actress of the Year for her role in the film The Business of Strangers . For The Business of Strangers , she was also nominated for the American Film Institute Best Actress award . In 2003 , she was awarded the Women in Film Lucy Award . In 2005 , Channing won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in a Children/Youth/Family Special for Jack ( 2004 ) , a Showtime TV movie about a young man struggling to understand why his father left the family for another man . Channing played Jacks mother . She was selected for the second narrator of the Animal Planet hit series Meerkat Manor in 2008 , replacing Sean Astin , who did the first three seasons . In November 2008 she returned to Broadway as Vera Simpson in the musical Pal Joey and was nominated for the 2009 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical . In 2005 , Channing starred in Out of Practice with Henry Winkler , receiving an Emmy nomination for her role . She played the role of Lydia Barnes , ex-wife of Stewart Barnes ( Winkler ) , and had two sons and a lesbian daughter ( Christopher Gorham , Paula Marshall , Ty Burrell ) . The show aired for one season ( 22 episodes ) . From 2012 , Channing played a recurring role in The Good Wife . She played the role of the title characters mother , Veronica Loy until the final season in 2016 . She returned to the stage in June 2010 , to Dublins Gaiety Theatre to play Lady Bracknell in Rough Magic Theatre Companys production of Oscar Wildes The Importance of Being Earnest . Channing appeared in the play Other Desert Cities Off-Broadway at Lincoln Center and then on Broadway , as of October 2011 . Channing was nominated for the Drama Desk Award , Outstanding Actress in a Play , and the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play for Other Desert Cities . In 2018 she played the lead in Apologia , which had a limited run in London , and then moved to the Roundabout Theatre Co . in NYC . Personal life . Channing has been married and divorced four times ; she has no children . She married Walter Channing in 1963 and kept the amalgamated name Stockard Channing after they divorced in 1967 . Her second husband was Paul Schmidt , a professor of Slavic languages ( 1970–76 ) , and her third was writer-producer David Debin ( 1976–80 ) . Her fourth husband was businessman David Rawle ( 1980–88 ) . She has been in a relationship with cinematographer Daniel Gillham for more than 30 years ; they met on the set of A Time of Destiny . The couple reside in Maine when not working . Discography . - 1978 : ( RSO ) Look at Me , Im Sandra Dee featuring Didi Conn , Dinah Manoff and Jamie Donnelly There Are Worse Things I Could Do External links . - Stockard Channing Interview by Craig Gholson at Bomb ( Winter , 1989 )