Sam Waterston has received numerous accolades including a Primetime Emmy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a Tony Award, and a BAFTA Award.
34 Facts About Sam Waterston
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Sam Waterston's acting career has spanned over five decades acting on stage and screen.
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Sam Waterston received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010 and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2012.
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Sam Waterston studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and the American Actors Workshop.
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Sam Waterston started his career in theater on the New York stage, appearing in multiple revivals of Shakespeare.
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Sam Waterston portrayed Abraham Lincoln on Broadway in Abe Lincoln in Illinois where he received a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination.
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Sam Waterston received critical acclaim for his portrayal of Sydney Schanberg in Roland Joffe's The Killing Fields, for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
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Sam Waterston portrayed Abraham Lincoln in the miniseries Lincoln and the Ken Burns miniseries The Civil War.
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Sam Waterston, the third of four siblings, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Sam Waterston's father, George Chychele Waterston was a semanticist, language teacher, and an emigrant from Leith, Scotland.
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Sam Waterston attended high school at the Groton School, graduating in the class of 1958.
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Sam Waterston received a BA from Yale College, class of 1962.
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The classically trained Sam Waterston has numerous stage credits to his name.
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Sam Waterston continues live theater work during the summers, often seen acting in such venues as Long Wharf Theatre and the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven.
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Sam Waterston appeared as Polonius in the 2008 Shakespeare in the Park production of Hamlet.
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Sam Waterston's performance received excellent reviews in The New York Times and many other newspapers around the country, particularly in the northeast.
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In 2015, Sam Waterston appeared as Prospero in a Shakespeare in the Park production of The Tempest, directed by Michael Greif.
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Sam Waterston played the role of McCoy, who would eventually become District Attorney, through the series finale in 2010, and has reprised the role throughout the Law and Order franchise.
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Sam Waterston appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to promote the show.
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Sam Waterston has had several other high profile television roles, including his portrayal of cable news president Charlie Skinner in The Newsroom, an HBO series by Aaron Sorkin.
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In 2015, Sam Waterston joined the cast of the Netflix series Grace and Frankie, starring alongside Martin Sheen, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin.
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Sam Waterston finished in second place behind Meloni with a total score of $12,000, but was awarded $25,000 for his charities as a runner-up.
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Sam Waterston made a popular cameo appearance on an episode of Saturday Night Live as himself, extolling the virtues of Old Glory Insurance, meant to protect the elderly from robot attacks.
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On February 12,2009, Sam Waterston joined the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College orchestra and chorus, along with the Riverside Inspirational Choir and NYC Labor Choir, in honoring Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday at the Riverside Church in New York City.
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Under the direction of Maurice Peress, they performed Earl Robinson's "The Lonesome Train: A Music Legend for Actors, Folk Singers, Choirs, and Orchestra" in which Sam Waterston depicted Abraham Lincoln.
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In 1976, Sam Waterston married his second wife, a former model, Lynn Louisa Woodruff.
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In 2012, Sam Waterston received the Goodermote Humanitarian Award from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health for his longtime support of refugees around the world.
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Sam Waterston was a spokesman for the Unity08 movement, which unsuccessfully sought to run a non- or bipartisan presidential ticket in the 2008 presidential election.
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Sam Waterston is a longtime friend and fan of the Mark Morris Dance Group and hosted the television presentation of Mozart Dances on PBS's Live from Lincoln Center on August 16,2007.
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On October 18,2019, Sam Waterston was arrested with Grace and Frankie co-star Jane Fonda for protesting the Trump administration's policies concerning climate change outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC.
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Sam Waterston received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Play for his performance in the Broadway revival of Abe Lincoln in Illinois.
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Sam Waterston received 3 Primetime Emmy Award nominations for I'll Fly Away as well as two Golden Globe Award nominations for the series, winning in 1994.
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In 2003, Sam Waterston received The Lincoln Forum's Richard Nelson Current Award of Achievement.
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On January 7,2010, Sam Waterston received the 2,397th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.