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Sam Waterston

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Sam Waterston Biography

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  • Birth Name: Samuel Atkinson Waterston
  • Birth Place: Cambridge, MA
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 11/15/1940, Scorpio
  • Profession: Actor
Sam Waterston Fast Facts:
  • Made his stage debut at age 6 in 1947 in a school production of Jean Anouilh's Antigone.
  • Spent his junior year of college at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he worked with the American Actors Workshop and studied under blacklisted Hollywood director John Berry.
  • Has become closely associated with Abraham Lincoln, whom he's portrayed on stage and screen, notably in the 1988 NBC miniseries Gore Vidal's Lincoln and in the 1993 Lincoln Center Theater revival of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Abe Lincoln in Illinois.
  • "It was the furious, aggressive, un-Hamlet-like character that attracted me," said Waterston about joining the Law & Order cast as ADA Jack McCoy in a 1998 TV GUIDE interview. "And then to have him forge through these problems that are very morally difficult. It's an endlessly interesting place to live."
  • Featured in a national advertising campaign for brokerage firm TD Waterhouse.
    Sam Waterston Relationships:
  • Alice Tucker Waterston - Mother
  • Barbara Rutledge Johns - Ex-wife
  • Katherine Waterston - Daughter
  • Lynn Woodruff - Wife
  • George C. Waterston Jr. - Brother
  • Roberta Britton - Sister
  • George Chychele Waterston - Father
  • Graham Waterston - Son
  • Elisabeth Waterston - Daughter
  • James Waterston - Son
  • Ellen Waterston - Sister

    • Sam Waterston Awards:
  • 1994 Tony: Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play - Nominee
  • 1983 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television - Nominee
  • 1994 Emmy: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Special - Nominee
  • 1985 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama - Nominee
  • 1975 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture - Nominee
  • 1992 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama - Nominee
  • 1993 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama - Winner
  • 1995 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama - Nominee
  • 1975 Golden Globe: New Star of the Year - Actor - Nominee
  • 1992 Emmy: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series - Nominee
  • 1993 Emmy: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series - Nominee
  • 1997 Emmy: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series - Nominee
  • 1999 Emmy: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series - Nominee
  • 2000 Emmy: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series - Nominee
  • 1974 Emmy: Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie - Nominee
  • 1984 Oscar: Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role - Nominee

  • College:
  • Yale University, New Haven, CT (BA in Drama, 1962)
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