Sam Waterston

Samuel Atkinson "Sam" Waterston (born November 15, 1940) is an American actor, producer and director. Among other roles, he is noted for his Academy Award-nominated portrayal of Sydney Schanberg in The Killing Fields (1984), and his Golden Globe-nominated and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning role as Jack McCoy on the NBC television series Law & Order (1994-2010). 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 fifty-year career. Allmovie has characterised Waterston as having "cultivated a loyal following with his quietly charismatic, unfailingly solid performances."Waterston received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010 and was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 2012.

Personal facts

Sam Waterston
Alias (AKA)Waterston Samuel Atkinson
Birth dateNovember 15, 1940
Birth nameSamuel Atkinson Waterston
Birth place
Cambridge Massachusetts , Massachusetts
Children
Katherine Waterston

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  1. http://www.mlfilms.com/productions/m_and_i