Carol Channing

Acting

Born 1921-01-31 Seattle, Washington, USA 87 credits Golden Globe Awards 1 Tony Awards 2 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year 1 Theatre World Award 1

Awards

Nominated for 1 Academy Award

Academy Awards 1 nominated

1968 Best Supporting Actress Nominated Thoroughly Modern Millie

Golden Globe Awards 1 won

1968 Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Won Thoroughly Modern Millie

Tony Awards 2 won · 3 nominated

1974 Best Actress in a Musical Nominated
1968 Special Tony Award Won
1964 Best Actress in a Musical Won Hello, Dolly!
1961 Best Actress in a Musical Nominated
1956 Best Actress in a Musical Nominated

star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won

— star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won

Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year 1 won

1971 Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year Won

Theatre World Award 1 won

1949 Theatre World Award Won

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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.