Dave Benett/Getty Stockard Channing on Feb. 17, 2023. Tuesday marks Stockard Channing 's 80th birthday. In honor of the Grease star's milestone, below is her 1979 PEOPLE cover story from the archives.

In 2004, Stockard Channing was winning awards playing the president's wife in one of the most acclaimed shows of all time. In 2004, Channing Tatum just had his first role as a guest star on CSI Miami.

Dianne Wiest and Stockard Channing will reprise their roles as eccentric aunts with a deep knowledge of coven living in "Practical Magic 2." They join Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, the stars of ...

STOCKARD Channing has cemented herself as one of Hollywood finest, after kicking off her career in the late 60s. Over the years her career has included iconic films, as well as top TV roles. Who is… ...

Stockard Channing was an inimitable force as Betty Rizzo in 1978’s Grease, though the movie was never meant to become a huge phenomenon. “I gave [Grease] my all, and I’m proud of the ...

Stockard Channing was born Susan Antonia Williams Stockard. After graduating summa cum laude from Radcliffe College of Harvard University, she began acting in Off-Broadway shows while living in ...

Stockard Channing is remembering how she learned about the most difficult moment in Courtney B. Vance’s life. “I just remember the shock,” Channing, 79, tells PEOPLE of that phone call. “I ...

Stockard Channing and Friends Usher in a New Chelsea Bar A night out with Ms. Channing, who currently stars in Terrence McNally’s name-dropping satire, “It’s Only a Play.” By Ruth La Ferla ...

Will Smith may have fallen in love with Stockard Channing on the set of 1993’s Six Degrees of Separation, but Channing only felt “motherly” to the rising star, who was 23 and a newly married ...

Stockard Channing is “flattered” that Will Smith fell for her while filming “Six Degrees of Separation” in 1993. Will Smith and Stockard Channing in “Six Degrees of Separation”Everett ...

Stockard Channing recalled that the film took on a life of its own The film had wide appeal, especially to women. “It’s very unusual,” Channing recalled.