Stockard Channing

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Summary

Stockard Channing is an actor known for Grease, Six Degrees of Separation, The West Wing, and a long stage career. Her work includes sharp, strong-willed women in family, social, and political settings. Channing publicly supported marriage equality at a 2009 Broadway event and spoke against continuing sexual and racial discrimination at a 2000 PFLAG dinner. She has also donated to Democratic candidates and groups, and has cited climate change as a major fear and expressed disappointment over the political climate after Joe Biden’s election.