Sam Waterston
Sam Waterston, Samuel Atkinson Waterston actually (* November 15, 1940 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American film actor.
Sam Waterston studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. Afterwards he trained as an actor and worked in the following years, first as a stage actor in New York City. In the 1960s, he appeared occasionally in insignificant films. It was not until his role as Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby (1974 ) he attracted some attention and won a nomination for a Golden Globe Award for Best Young Actor.
After that, his career seemed at first to be stagnating. Among his better-known films of that time include Rancho Deluxe with Jeff Bridges (1975 ), Capricorn One by Peter Hyams, agents poker on the side of Walter Matthau and Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate (the last two in 1980 ). Woody Allen cast him in his films interior (1978), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986 ), September (1987) and Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989). For his starring role in the war drama The Killing Fields - Crying Country (1984 ) he was nominated in 1985 as the best male lead for an Oscar, but lost F. Murray Abraham.
On television Waterston came out as the performer alike. For the lead role as prosecutor Jack McCoy in the series Law & Order, which he played in 368 episodes from 1994 to 2010, he was nominated three times for an Emmy. He received further nominations for his role in the TV movie The Glass Menagerie (1973 ) on the side of Katharine Hepburn on the eponymous play by Tennessee Williams, as well as for the series I'll Fly Away ( 1991-1993). For his role in the series Waterston won the 1993 Golden Globe Award.
On 12 October 2004 he received an honorary doctorate of Art Studies at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. On 7 January 2010, he was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Since 1976 he has been married to his second wife Lynn Louisa Woodruff. The two have three children together. His son, James (born 1969 ) from his first marriage is also an actor.