Updated 8/1/25
There were two kinds of people calling the shots in Grease, T-Birds led by John Travolta and Pink Ladies. Among these powerful factions, Betty Rizzo was one of the toughest, and that stubborn charisma made her the natural leader of the Pink Ladies. It helped that actress Stockard Channing was well into her career – and adulthood – when she landed the role; that confidence bled through easily. Viewers saw this again in projects like Practical Magic and fell in love all over again in NBC’s West Wing. But in between a career that spans over five decades and counting, Channing was married several times; she divorced four times, specifically. This pattern began when she was relatively young but even after such tumult, she has managed to keep up a positive outlook for the future