• Birth Place: Sheffield, AL
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 08/19/1942, Leo
  • Profession: Actor; lawyer; politician
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Fred Dalton Thompson Fast Facts:
  • Served from 1973 to '74 as cochief counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee, an experience he wrote about in his memoir, At That Point in Time.
  • Played a CIA director for his first on-screen role in the 1987 movie No Way Out.
  • Represented Tennessee as a Republican U.S. Senator from 1994 to 2003.
  • Named the 2001 Distinguished Alumnus of the Vanderbilt University Law School.
  • Joined the cast of Law & Order in 2002 as conservative DA Arthur Branch, a role he also played in the show's several spin-offs.
  • Announced his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno September 5, 2007; as a result, he had to leave Law & Order to avoid a conflict with the equal-time television rule for presidential candidates.
  • Fred Dalton Thompson Relationships:
  • Daniel Thompson - Son
  • Elizabeth Thompson Panici - Daughter
  • Fletcher Thompson - Father
  • Fred Dalton 'Tony' Thompson Jr. - Son
  • Hayden Victoria Thompson - Daughter
  • Jeri Kehn - Wife
  • Lorrie Morgan - Ex-significant Other
  • Ruth Thompson - Mother
  • Sarah Lindsey - Ex-wife
  • Margaret Carlson - Ex-significant Other
  • Georgette Mosbacher - Ex-significant Other
  • Samuel Thompson - Son
  • Ken Thompson - Brother
  • Fred Dalton Thompson Awards:
  • 2003 Screen Actors Guild Awards: Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series - Nominee
  • College:
  • Memphis State University. Memphis, TN (BA in Philosophy and Political Science, 1964); Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (JD, 1967)
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