1. Lawrence O'Donnell was a writer and producer for the NBC series The West Wing as well as creator and executive producer of the NBC series Mister Sterling.
21 Facts About Lawrence O'Donnell
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Lawrence O'Donnell appeared as recurring character Lee Hatcher in the HBO series Big Love.
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Lawrence O'Donnell is of Irish descent and was raised Catholic.
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Lawrence O'Donnell attended St Sebastian's School, where he was captain of the baseball team and wide receiver on their undefeated football team.
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Lawrence O'Donnell majored in economics at Harvard College, from which he graduated in 1976.
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In 2017, Lawrence O'Donnell published the book Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics.
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From 1989 to 1995, Lawrence O'Donnell was a legislative aide to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
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Lawrence O'Donnell served as senior adviser to Moynihan from 1989 to 1991, then as staff director of two senate committees that Moynihan was chairing: Environment and Public Works from 1992 to 1993, and Finance from 1993 to 1995.
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Lawrence O'Donnell won the 2001 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series for The West Wing and was nominated for the 2006 Emmy in the same category.
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In 2002, Lawrence O'Donnell was supervising producer and writer for the television drama First Monday; and in 2003 he was creator, executive producer, and writer for the television drama Mister Sterling.
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In 2009, Lawrence O'Donnell became a regular contributor on Morning Joe with Joe Scarborough.
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Also in 2009 and 2010, Lawrence O'Donnell began appearing frequently as a substitute host of Countdown with Keith Olbermann, particularly when Olbermann's father was ill in the hospital.
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On January 21,2011, it was announced that Lawrence O'Donnell would take over the 8pm slot from Keith Olbermann after Olbermann announced the abrupt termination of his show, Countdown with Keith Olbermann.
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On September 20,2017, an eight-minute video clip was leaked; it showed Lawrence O'Donnell angrily cursing and swearing about background noise between segments of a live broadcast that had aired on August 29,2017.
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Lawrence O'Donnell apologized on Twitter, and the leaker was fired.
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Lawrence O'Donnell played Lee Hatcher, the Henrickson family attorney, in the HBO series Big Love, about a polygamous family in Utah.
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In late 2010, Lawrence O'Donnell showed a taped October 2010 interview with RNC Chairman Michael Steele.
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Lawrence O'Donnell drew criticism for an October 2010 interview with Congressman Ron Paul, when Paul accused him of breaking an agreement not to ask him about other political candidates.
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Lawrence O'Donnell based this report on a single source that he did not identify, although he used the qualifier "if true," and acknowledged that it had not been verified by NBC News.
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In 2010, Lawrence O'Donnell made a trip to Malawi with the intent of providing schoolroom desks for female children, who had never seen desks.
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Lawrence O'Donnell was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters by Suffolk University in 2001.