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.

Dianne Wiest and Stockard Channing will reprise their roles in 'Practical Magic 2,' as Lee Pace, Maisie Williams, and Xolo Maridueña join the cast.

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.

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… ...

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 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 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 ...

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.

“And to make matters worse, during shooting I fell in love with Stockard Channing,” Smith confessed. “After the film wrapped, Sheree and Trey and I moved back to L.A,” he continued.

Channing herself told us, “Well, I’m very flattered,” at the “Six Degrees of Stockard Channing” event at McKittrick Hotel. “That’s a wonderful thing . . .

Stockard Channing may not be an A-list household name anymore. But it’s still a great classic Hollywood name—one that will forever be attached to this exotic garden Hollywood Hills house.