Carol Channing
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
89
Gender
Female
Birthday
1921-01-31 (105 years old)
Place of Birth
Seattle, Washington, USA
Carol Channing
Biography
Carol Elaine Channing (born January 31, 1921) was an American actress, singer, dancer and comedian. Known for starring in Broadway and film musicals, her characters typically radiated a fervent expressiveness and an easily identifiable voice, whether singing or for comedic effect. Channing also studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City. She began as a Broadway musical actress, starring in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes in 1949 and Hello, Dolly! in 1964, winning the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for the latter. She revived both roles several times throughout her career, most recently playing Dolly in 1995. Channing was nominated for her first Tony Award in 1956 for The Vamp followed by a nomination in 1961 for Show Girl. She received her fourth Tony Award nomination for the musical Lorelei in 1974. As a film actress, she won the Golden Globe Award and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Muzzy in Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967). Her other film appearances include The First Traveling Saleslady (1956) and Skidoo (1968). On television, she appeared as an entertainer on variety shows, from The Ed Sullivan Show in the 1950s to Hollywood Squares. She had a standout performance as The White Queen in the TV production of Alice in Wonderland (1985), and had the first of many TV specials in 1966, An Evening with Carol Channing. Channing was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1981 and received a Lifetime Achievement Tony Award in 1995. She continued to perform and make appearances well into her 90s, singing songs from her repertoire and sharing stories with fans, cabaret style. She released an autobiography, Just Lucky I Guess, in 2002, and Larger Than Life, a documentary film about her career, was released in 2012.
Known For
Family Guy
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Golden Globe Awards
The View
The Nanny
Magnum, P.I.
The Mike Douglas Show
The Love Boat
The Love Boat
The Love Boat
RuPaul's Drag Race
Great Performances
Hollywood Squares
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
What's My Line?
What's My Line?
The Drew Carey Show
The Carol Burnett Show
The Carol Burnett Show
Touched by an Angel
The Merv Griffin Show
The Oscars
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers
The Colgate Comedy Hour
The Ed Sullivan Show
Skidoo
The Magic School Bus
The Muppet Show
Omnibus
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Thumbelina
DuPont Show of the Month
Burke's Law
Shinbone Alley
The Dean Martin Show
Happily Ever After
The Flip Wilson Show
The Addams Family
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Night of 100 Stars
Where's Wally?
Alice in Wonderland
Password
The Big Party
Hallmark Hall of Fame
The Lux Show
Festival at Ford's
Show Girl
Style & Substance
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Broadway: The American Musical
Carol Channing and 101 Men
Night of 100 Stars II
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Night of 100 Stars III
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical
The Rosemary Clooney Show
Live from Broadway: Hello, Dolly!
The George Burns Show
The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
Free to Be… You and Me
The People's Command Performance: '77
The first traveling saleslady
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
George Burns Celebrates 80 Years in Show Business
The Christmas Tree
The Carol Channing Show
The 1974 Annual Las Vegas Entertainment Awards
One More Time
Broadway's Lost Treasures
Paid in Full
George Burns: His Wit and Wisdom
Ruth Lyons: First Lady of Television
Jerry Herman's Broadway at the Hollywood Bowl
The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story
The Outrageous Sophie Tucker
Kaye Ballard - The Show Goes On!
Carol Channing: Larger Than Life
Carol Channing and Pearl Bailey: On Broadway
Three Men on a Horse
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
The Day of the Oath
Great Broadway Musical Moments from the Ed Sullivan Show
