Actor, Sam Waterson
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Sam Waterson
Actor
BIO
Sam Waterston's portrayal of charismatic, tough Assistant DA Jack McCoy, in Wolf Films/Universal Network Television's Law & Order, has led to a "promotion". This year Jack McCoy, in Waterston's 14th season on the show, will be the new D.A.
Waterston has acted in every medium and around the world. He portrayed New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg in the film THE KILLING FIELDS, shot in Thailand, Forrest Bedford in NBC's I'll Fly Away, shot in Georgia, and Nick Carraway in THE GREAT GATSBY, filmed in London, New York, and Newport, R.I. He played John Honeyman in Lee Blessing's play Walk in the Woods, in Moscow, Sigmund Warburg in A Man of Influence in Paris and Luxembourg, Hamlet in New York, and Oppenheimer for the BBC in London. He was host of the ten-part NBC informational series, Lost Civilizations.
Waterston's extensive film credits include Woody Allen's films INTERIORS, HANNAH AND HER SISTERS and CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS, John Waters' SERIAL MOM, HOPSCOTCH and HEAVEN'S GATE and two Anthony Harvey films: Tennessee Williams' THE GLASS MEAGERIE, with Katharine Hepburn, Michael Moriarty, and Joanna Miles and EAGLES WINGS, with Martin Sheen and Harvey Keitel. He starred opposite Jeff Bridges in Tom McGuane's RANCHO DELUXE and with Reese Witherspoon in MAN IN THE MOON. For television, he produced and starred opposite Jennifer Beals and Lisa Gay Hamilton in the cable movie A House Divided, and portrayed Abraham Lincoln opposite Mary Tyler Moore in Gore Vidal's television mini-series, Lincoln. Waterston starred in the NBC movie, The Matthew Shepard Story, opposite Stockard Channing, and his recent films include THE COMMISSION with Martin Landau and LE DIVORCE with Kate Hudson, Glenn Close and Stockard Channing.
In the New York Theater, Waterston played Lincoln in Abe Lincoln in Illinois at the Lincoln Center Theater in New York, and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, in Central Park and at the Winter Garden. Other New York Shakespeare Festival productions include As You Like It, Cymbeline, Measure for Measure as well as Hamlet, twice. In 2000, Waterston played James Tyrone in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, at Syracuse Stage with his son, James, as Edmund and also starring John Slattery and Elizabeth Franz. In 2004, Waterston returned to The Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park in a reprise production of Much Ado About Nothing, portraying Leonato opposite his daughter, Elisabeth, who starred as Hero. Most recently, Waterston appeared as Henry Carr in Tom Stoppard's Travesties at the Longwharf Theater in New Haven, Connecticut, and as a shattered President in a post-apocolyptic world, starring opposite Judy Davis, in an upcoming episode of a new series for ABC, Masters of Science Fiction.
Waterston, who has four children, lives in Connecticut with his wife.
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