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First Name

Sam

Last Name

Waterston

Birthday

1940-11-15

Height

Build

Average

Eye Color

Brown - Dark

Hair Color

Brown - Dark

Birthplace

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Zodiac Sign

Scorpio

Ethnicity

White

Claim to Fame

Law & Order

Gender

Male

Nationality

American

Role ID

Actor/Actress, Producer, Director

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Profile Bio Text

Samuel Atkinson "Sam" Waterston (born November 15, 1940) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor noted particularly for his portrayal of Jack McCoy on the NBC television series Law & Order. He has also appeared in many feature films. Waterston, one of four siblings, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His mother, Alice Tucker (née Atkinson), was an American Mayflower descendant and worked as a landscape painter, and his father, George Chychele Waterston, was an immigrant from Leith, Scotland and a semanticist and language teacher. Waterston attended both the Brooks School, a boarding school in North Andover, Massachusetts, and the Groton School. He entered Yale University on a scholarship in 1958 and graduated with a BA in 1962. After graduating from Yale, he attended the Clinton Playhouse for several months. Waterston also attended the Sorbonne in Paris and the American Actors Workshop. An active humanitarian, Waterston donates considerable time to organizations such as Oceana, where he is a board member, Refugees International, Meals on Wheels, The United Way, and The Episcopal Actors` Guild of America. Waterston, a practicing Episcopalian, narrated the 1999 biographical documentary of Episcopal civil rights martyr Jonathan Myrick Daniels, Here Am I, Send Me. A political independent, he 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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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Waterston

High School

Groton High -- Groton, MA

University

Sorbonne University, B.A. Yale University --1962

Full Name at Birth

Samuel Atkinson Waterston

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Wikipedia Text

Samuel Atkinson "Sam" Waterston (born November 15, 1940) is an American actor, producer and director. Among other roles, he is noted for his Academy Award-nominated portrayal of Sydney Schanberg in 1984's The Killing Fields, and his Golden Globe-nominated and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning portrayal of Jack McCoy on the NBC television series Law & Order. He has been nominated for multiple Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, BAFTA and Emmy awards, having starred in over eighty film and television productions during his forty-five-year career. Allmovie has characterised Waterston as having "cultivated a loyal following with his quietly charismatic, unfailingly solid performances." In January 2010, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Family Member

Katherine Waterston (Daughter) (Actress), Elisabeth Waterston (Daughter) (Actress), James Waterston (Son) (Actor)

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Occupation Text

Actor