1. 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 two BAFTA Awards.
47 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 starred in numerous productions at the Public Theatre including Indians, The Trial of Catonsville Nine, A Doll's House, Hamlet, Measure for Measure, and Benefactors.
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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 played Charlie Skinner in Aaron Sorkin's HBO drama series The Newsroom.
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Sam Waterston was BAFTA nominated for portraying J Robert Oppenheimer in the BBC miniseries Oppenheimer.
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Sam Waterston has acted in Lincoln, Godless, Grace and Frankie, and The Dropout.
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Sam Waterston was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the third of four children of George Chychele Waterston, a semanticist and language teacher, and Alice Tucker, a landscape painter.
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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 earned 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 made his film debut in the 1965 drama movie The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean.
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Sam Waterston had a leading role in the British romantic drama Three acting opposite Charlotte Rampling and Robie Porter.
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Sam Waterston acted in the Merchant Ivory film Savages based loosely on the Luis Bunuel film The Exterminating Angel.
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Sam Waterston continued acting in plays at the Public Theatre including portraying Benedick in Joseph Papp's production of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and played the title role in Hamlet, the former earned him a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance.
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Sam Waterston has a history of doing theater work in the summer, often seen acting in such venues as Long Wharf Theatre and the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven.
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Sam Waterston went on to appear as bond salesman Nick Carraway in the 1974 feature film version of The Great Gatsby acting alongside Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, and Bruce Dern.
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In 1984, Waterston played American journalist Sydney Schanberg in the British drama The Killing Fields, opposite Haing S Ngor and John Malkovich.
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Sam Waterston took a supporting role in the coming of age film The Man in the Moon starring Reese Witherspoon in her feature film debut, the John Waters satirical black comedy film Serial Mom and played President Abraham Lincoln in the miniseries Lincoln.
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Sam Waterston voiced Lincoln in the 1990 Ken Burns documentary miniseries The Civil War.
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Sam Waterston played the role of John James "Jack" McCoy, who would eventually become Manhattan District Attorney, through the series finale in 2010.
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Sam Waterston made a popular cameo appearance on a 1995 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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Sam Waterston portrayed a fictional president of the United States in the thriller Shadow Conspiracy starring Charlie Sheen and Donald Sutherland.
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Sam Waterston acted in his third Merchant Ivory film Le Divorce starring Kate Hudson and Naomi Watts.
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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 a positive review in The New York Times.
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On February 12,2009, Sam Waterston portrayed Abraham Lincoln in Earl Robinson's "The Lonesome Train: A Music Legend for Actors, Folk Singers, Choirs, and Orchestra" at the Riverside Church in New York City.
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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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Sam Waterston acted opposite Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, Dev Patel, Olivia Munn, and Jane Fonda.
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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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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 appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to promote the show.
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The couple had one son, actor James Sam Waterston, before divorcing in 1975.
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Sam Waterston married his second wife, former model Lynn Louisa Woodruff, in 1976.
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Sam Waterston officiated the wedding of Olivia Munn and John Mulaney.
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Sam Waterston received the Goodermote Humanitarian Award from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2012 for his longtime support of refugees around the world.
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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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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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On October 18,2019, Sam Waterston was arrested outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC, with Grace and Frankie co-star Jane Fonda, for protesting the Trump administration's policies concerning climate change.
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Sam Waterston received three Primetime Emmy Award nominations and two Golden Globe Award nominations for I'll Fly Away, winning a Golden Globe in 1994.
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Sam Waterston received a 1994 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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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.
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On May 27,2024, Sam Waterston was inducted as an honorary class member of Princeton University.