GREASE star Stockard Channing made a rare appearance during an outing with friends.
The Hollywood actress is known for playing Betty Rizzo in the beloved 1970s musical.
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Earlier this week, Stockard, 80, was photographed with her playwright and actor friends Alexi Kaye Campbell and director Dominic Cook in London, England.
The Grease star attended an evening press screening of Hello, Dolly! at The London Palladium on Thursday night.
The West Wing actress looked decades younger in an all-black ensemble.
Stockard wore a black long-sleeved shirt and high-waisted pants with a colorful belt around his abdomen.
The actress wore reading glasses attached to a gold necklace.
She also carried a gold chain crossbody bag and accessorized her look with gold bracelets and black sunglasses.
The Oscar nominee wore minimal makeup and her dark blonde hair was cropped to rest on her shoulders.
MORE ABOUT STOCK
Stockard Channing was born on February 13, 1944, in New York City.
While in college, she studied history and literature at Harvard University’s Radcliffe College and graduated in 1965.
She went on to receive acting training at HB Studio in New York.
At first, Stockard was interested in the theater business before becoming famous in the film and TV industry.
In 1971, she made her Broadway debut in The Two Gentlemen of Verona: The Musical.
Two years later, she landed her first leading role in The Girl Most Likely To.
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Grease was released on June 16, 1978
Here’s the cast of the beloved 1970s musical.
- John Travolta as Danny Zuko
- Olivia Newton-John as Sandy Olsson
- Stockard Channing as Betty Rizzo
- Jeff Conaway as Kenickie Murdoch
- Didi Conn as Frenchy
- Dinah Manoff as Marty Maraschino
- Michael Tucci as Sonny
- Barry Pearl as Doody
- Jamie Donnelly as January
- Susan Buckner as Patty Simcox
- Kelly Ward as Putzie
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In 1975, Stockard worked alongside Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson in The Fortune.
At 33, she was cast as Rizzo in Grease and has worked with John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John.
Her character received the People’s Choice Award for Favorite Supporting Actress in a Movie.
Since then, she has starred in many well-known TV shows and films, including Six Degrees of Separation, Up Close & Personal, The First Wives Club, Practical Magic, The West Wing, and The Good Wife.
Stockard has received many nominations for his work in the industry.
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She has received many Emmy nominations for her roles in Echoes in the Darkness, Road to Avonlea, An Unexpected Family, The Baby Dance, The West Wing, The Matthew Shepard Story, and Out of Practice.
She earned an Oscar and Golden Globe nomination for Six Degrees of Separation in 1993.
In 1995, Stockard was nominated for a SAG Award for Smoke.
His most recent project is the Knuckles miniseries, based on the character Sonic the Hedgehog.
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