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Sam Waterston

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Sam Waterston: Biography

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Birth Name: Samuel Atkinson Waterston
Birth Place: Cambridge, MA
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 11/15/1940, Scorpio
Profession: Actor

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Sam Waterston Fast Facts:

In 1947, made his stage debut at age 6 in a school production of Jean Anouilh's Antigone.
Spent his junior year of college at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he worked with the American Actors Workshop and studied under blacklisted Hollywood director John Berry.
Has become closely associated with the role of Abraham Lincoln, whom he's portrayed on stage and screen, notably in the 1988 NBC miniseries Gore Vidal's Lincoln and in the 1993 Lincoln Center Theater production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Abe Lincoln in Illinois.
"It was the furious, aggressive, un-Hamlet-like character that attracted me," said Waterston about joining the Law & Order cast as ADA Jack McCoy in a 1998 TV GUIDE interview. "And then to have him forge through these problems that are very morally difficult. It's an endlessly interesting place to live."
Featured in a national advertising campaign for brokerage firm TD Ameritrade.

Sam Waterston Relationships:
Alice Tucker Waterston - Mother
Barbara Rutledge Johns - Ex-wife
Elisabeth Waterston - Daughter
George Chychele Waterston - Father
Graham Waterston - Son
James Waterston - Son
Katherine Waterston - Daughter
Lynn Woodruff - Wife
George C. Waterston Jr. - Brother
Roberta Britton - Sister
Ellen Waterston - Sister
Sam Waterston Awards:
1992 Emmy: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series - Nominee
1993 Emmy: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series - Nominee
1997 Emmy: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series - Nominee
1999 Emmy: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series - Nominee
2000 Emmy: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series - Nominee
1975 Golden Globe: New Star of the Year - Actor - Nominee
1985 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama - Nominee
1975 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture - Nominee
1992 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama - Nominee
1993 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama - Winner
1995 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama - Nominee
1983 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television - Nominee
1984 Oscar: Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role - Nominee
1994 Tony: Actor (Play) - Nominee
1996 Emmy: Outstanding Informational Series - Winner
1994 Emmy: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Special - Nominee
1974 Emmy: Best Supporting Actor in Drama - Nominee
1984 BAFTA Awards: Best Actor - Nominee
2003 Screen Actors Guild Awards: Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series - Nominee
2001 Screen Actors Guild Awards: Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series - Nominee
2000 Screen Actors Guild Awards: Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series - Nominee
1999 Screen Actors Guild Awards: Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series - Nominee
1998 Screen Actors Guild Awards: Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series - Nominee
1998 Screen Actors Guild Awards: Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series - Winner
1997 Screen Actors Guild Awards: Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series - Nominee
1997 Screen Actors Guild Awards: Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series - Nominee
1996 Screen Actors Guild Awards: Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series - Nominee
1995 Screen Actors Guild Awards: Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series - Nominee
1994 Screen Actors Guild Awards: Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series - Nominee
College:
Yale University, New Haven, CT (BA in Drama, 1962)