Sam Waterston
Gender: Male
Born: 15th November 1940 (currently 71 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Law & Order, I'll Fly Away, Family Guy, The Civil War, Gore Vidal's Lincoln, Q.E.D., Oppenheimer, Masters of Science Fiction, The Newsroom
Movies: Heaven's Gate, Hopscotch, Interiors, Savages, Serial Mom, Shadow Conspiracy, The Boy Who Loved Trolls, The Fifth Missile, The Killing Fields, The Proprietor, September, The Man in the Moon, Capricorn One, Exiled: A Law & Order Movie, The Matthew Shepard Story, The Great Gatsby, Mindwalk, Just Between Friends, A Captive in the Land, Rancho Deluxe, Cover Me Babe, Warning Sign, Hannah and Her Sisters, Swimming to Cambodia, Miracle at Midnight, The Room Upstairs, Dempsey, David's Mother, In the Hands of the Enemy, Friendly Fire, The National Parks: America's Best Idea, Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery, Sweet Revenge, Le Divorce, The Glass Menagerie, Welcome Home, The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean, Journey into Fear, The Journey of August King, Crimes and Misdemeanors, The Enemy Within, Sweet William, Generation, Eagle's Wing, Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker, Gore Vidal's Lincoln, Finnegan Begin Again, More As This Story Develops, The Civil War
Samuel Atkinson "Sam" Waterston (born November 15, 1940) is an American actor and occasional producer and director. Among other roles, he is noted for his Academy Award-nominated portrayal of Sydney Schanberg in 1984's The Killing Fields, and his Golden Globe- and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning portrayal of Jack McCoy on the NBC television series Law & Order. He has been nominated for multiple Golden Globe-, Screen Actors Guild-, BAFTA- and Emmy Awards, having starred in over eighty film and television productions during his forty-five year career. Allmovie has characterised Waterston as having "cultivated a loyal following with his quietly charismatic, unfailingly solid performances." In January 2010, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Waterston, the third of four siblings, (Roberta, George and Ellen) was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His mother, Alice Tucker (née Atkinson), was an American Mayflower descendant and worked as a landscape painter, and his father, George Chychele Waterston, was an immigrant from Leith, Scotland and a semanticist and language teacher. Waterston attended both the Brooks School, a boarding school in North Andover, Massachusetts
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