Sam Waterston

Actor
Producer
Director

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Sam Waterston was born on 15 November 1940 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Killing Fields (1984), The Great Gatsby (1974) and Law & Order (1990). He has been married to Lynn Louisa Woodruff since 26 January 1976. They have three children. He was previously married to Barbara Rutledge Johns.

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Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 7 wins & 37 nominations total

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The Killing Fields

7.8

Sydney Schanberg

1984

The Great Gatsby

6.4

Nick Carraway

1974

Law & Order

7.8

TV Series

Executive ADA Jack McCoy
DA Jack McCoy
Interim DA Jack McCoy

Serial Mom

6.8

1994

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Actor

Law & Order
7.8
TV Series
- DA Jack McCoy
- Interim DA Jack McCoy
- Executive ADA Jack McCoy
- 1994–2024
Grace and Frankie
8.2
TV Series
- Sol Bergstein
- 2015–2022
The Dropout
7.5
TV Mini Series
- George Shultz
- 2022
The Final Chapters of Richard Brown Winters
Podcast Series
- Winters
- 2021
The Man in the Woods
5.4
- Headmaster Waldorf
- 2020
On the Basis of Sex
7.1
- Erwin Griswold
- 2018
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
8.1
TV Series
- DA Jack McCoy
- Executive ADA Jack McCoy
- 2000–2018
Godless
8.2
TV Mini Series
- Marshal John Cook
- 2017
Miss Sloane
7.5
- George Dupont
- 2016
And It Was Good
- Judge Alexander Baas
- Doctor
- Gravedigger
- 2015
Anesthesia
6.1
- Walter Zarrow
- 2015
The Newsroom
8.6
TV Series
- Charlie Skinner
- 2012–2014
Please Be Normal
5.4
- Dad
- 2014
The Path to Violence
5.6
TV Series
- Narrator (2013) (voice)
- 2013
Jo
6.5
TV Mini Series
- David Zifkin
- 2013