Stockard Channing: Totally Transformed Stockard Channing was born on February 13, 1944, in New York City, to an extremely affluent family. Her prim-and-proper upbringing included years at boarding school, and she attended the prestigious Radcliffe College. At age 19, the freshman married Harvard graduate student Walter Channing. Through her husband, she met the director of the Harvard production of ""Three Penny Opera,"" who cast Channing, an acting novice, in a leading role. That was how Channing caught the theater bug. In 1967, she and Walter divorced. A few years later, she headed for Broadway. A 1971 chorus part in ""Two Gentlemen of Verona"" led to TV roles and a part in the feature film ""The Fortune,"" co-starring Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson. Unfortunately, the movie and Channing's follow-ups fizzled at the box office. Her five-year career slump finally ended when the thirtysomething portrayed 17-year-old bad girl Rizzo in the movie musical ""Grease,"" which became a cinema classi
