Stockard Channing as Aunt Frances 'Franny' Owens
Sally and Gillian Owens have always known they were different. Raised by their aunts (Dianne Wiest and Stockard Channing) after their parents' death, the sisters grew up in a household that was anything but typical--their aunts fed them chocolate cake for breakfast and taught them the uses of practical magic. But the invocation of the Owens' sorcery also carries a price--some call it a curse: the men they fall in love with are doomed to an untimely death. Now adult women with very different personalities, the quiet Sally and the fiery Gillian must use all of their powers to fight the family curse and a swarm of supernatural forces that threatens the lives of all the Owens women.
Biography for Stockard Channing
Birth name
Susan Antonia Williams Stockard
Date of birth
13 February 1944
New York, New York, USA
Trivia
Attended Radcliffe College
Won a Tony in 1985 for "A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg".
Graduated from Harvard University, with a BA in history and literature.
Auditioned for the role of Lois Lane in Superman (1978), but lost to Margot Kidder.
Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia:
Intense actress whose offbeat looks and formidable range made her a real casting challenge. She first gained notice as the chameleonlike murderer in a 1973 TV movie, EB> and followed that highly praised performance with such diverse big-screen characters as the daffy heiress in The Fortune (1975), the lucky hostess on The Big Bus the crafty car thief in Dandy, the All-American Girl (both 1976), and the astrologist in The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1980)-none of them exactly box-office champs. (She did have supporting roles in two 1978 hits, The Cheap Detective and Grease.) After two valiant but failed attempts at sitcoms, she moved on to Broadway and achieved genuine stardom there, winning a Tony award. She played a Brazilian rain-forest insect (!) in Meet the Applegates (1991), and was Oscar-nominated for re-creating her Broadway role in Six Degrees of Separation (1993).
Anything Else (2003)
Divorce, Le (2003) .... Mother
Behind the Red Door (2002) .... Julia
Life or Something Like It (2002) .... Deborah Connors
Matthew Shepard Story, The (2002) (TV) .... Judy Shepard
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (2002) (TV) .... Margarethe Fisher Van Den Meer
"Walking with Beasts" (2001) TV Series (voice) .... Narrator (USA version)
... aka "Walking with Prehistoric Beasts" (2001) (USA: US version)
"Girl Thing, A" (2001) (mini) TV Series .... Dr. Beth Noonan
Business of Strangers, The (2001) .... Julie Styron
Piano Man's Daughter, The (2000) (TV) .... Lily Kilworth
Truth About Jane, The (2000) (TV) .... Janice
Where the Heart Is (2000) .... Thelma 'Sister' Husband
Isn't She Great (2000) .... Florence Maybelle
Other Voices (2000) .... Grover
"West Wing, The" (1999) TV Series .... First Lady Abby Bartlett
Venice Project, The (1999) .... Chandra Chase
"Batman Beyond" (1999) TV Series (voice) .... Commissioner Barbara Gordon (1999-2000)
... aka "Batman of the Future" (1999) (Europe: English title)
VH-1 Where Are They Now: Grease (1998) (TV) .... Herself/Rizzo
Practical Magic (1998) .... Aunt Frances 'Franny' Owens
Baby Dance, The (1998) (TV) .... Rachel Luckman
Lulu on the Bridge (1998) (voice) (uncredited) .... Celia's agent
Unexpected Life, An (1998) (TV) .... Barbara Whitney
Twilight (1998) .... Lieutenant Verna Hollander
Edie & Pen (1997) .... Penelope 'Pen' Chandler
... aka Desert Gamble (2000) (UK: TV title)
Unexpected Family, An (1996) (TV) .... Barbara Whitney
Prosecutors, The (1996) (TV) .... Ingrid Maynard
Moll Flanders (1996) .... Mrs. Allworthy
Lily Dale (1996) (TV) .... Corella
Up Close & Personal (1996) .... Marcia McGrath
First Wives Club, The (1996) .... Cynthia Swann Griffin
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995) .... Carol Ann
Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree (1995) (TV) .... Miss Adelaide
Smoke (1995) .... Ruby McNutt
... aka Smoke - Raucher unter sich (1995) (Germany)
David's Mother (1994) (TV) .... Bea
Six Degrees of Separation (1993) .... Ouisa Kittredge
Lincoln (1992) (TV) (voice) .... Clara Harris
Bitter Moon (1992) .... Beverly
... aka Lunes de fiel (1992) (France)
Married to It (1991) .... Iris
Meet the Applegates (1990) .... Jane Applegate
... aka Applegates, The (1990)
Perfect Witness (1989) (TV) .... Liz Sapperstein
Staying Together (1989) .... Nancy Trainer
Tidy Endings (1988) (TV) .... Marion
Time of Destiny, A (1988) .... Margaret
Echoes in the Darkness (1987) (TV) .... Susan Reinert
Room Upstairs, The (1987) (TV) .... Leah Lazenby
Men's Club, The (1986) .... Nancy
Heartburn (1986) .... Julie Siegel
Not My Kid (1985) (TV) .... Helen Bower
Without a Trace (1983) .... Jocelyn Norris
Safari 3000 (1982) .... J.J. Dalton
"Stockard Channing Show, The" (1980) TV Series .... Susan Goodenow
Fish That Saved Pittsburgh, The (1979) .... Mona Mondieu
"Stockard Channing in Just Friends" (1979) TV Series .... Susan
Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story (1979) (TV) .... Kitty O'Neil
Cheap Detective, The (1978) .... Bess
... aka Neil Simon's The Cheap Detective (1978) (USA: complete title)
Grease (1978) .... Elizabeth 'Betty' Rizzo
Sweet Revenge (1977/I) .... Vurrla Kowsky
Lucan (1977) (TV) .... Mickey MacElwaine
Big Bus, The (1976) .... Kitty Baxter
Fortune, The (1975) .... Freddie
... aka Spite and Malice (1975)
Girl Most Likely to..., The (1973) (TV) .... Miriam Knight
Up the Sandbox (1972) .... Judy Stanley
Hospital, The (1971) (uncredited) .... E.R. Nurse