Stockard Channing

Stockard Channing (b. February 13, 1944) is an American actress whose best known roles include Rizzo in the movie Grease and First Lady Abbey Bartlet on The West Wing.

In the early days of Sesame Street, Channing was featured in many of the Mad Painter sketches, as the victim of the painter's number obsession. She also worked with the Sesame Street Muppets when they guest starred on "West Wing," and played Miss Adelaide, the maid of indeterminate ethnicity, in Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree.