Sam Waterston
American actor
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| 2024 | Waterston appeared as President Roosevelt in 'The Six Triple Eight'. |
| May 27 2024 | Inducted as an honorary class member of Princeton University. |
| February 2 2024 | Announced departure from Law & Order after 20 seasons, with his character Jack McCoy (played for 405 episodes) to be replaced by a new D.A. portrayed by Tony Goldwyn. |
| 2022 | Returned to 'Law & Order' and appeared in 'The Dropout'. |
| 2022 | Concluded his role in Grace and Frankie after appearing in all seven seasons of the show. |
| 2022 | Portrayed George Shultz in the Hulu limited series The Dropout, starring Amanda Seyfried as Elizabeth Holmes. |
| 2022 | Returns to Law & Order, reprising his iconic role as Jack McCoy. |
| 2021 | Rejoined the cast of Law & Order, reprising his role as District Attorney Jack McCoy, and appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to promote the show. |
| 2020 | Sam Waterston was part of the documentary 'Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story'. |
| October 18 2019 | Arrested outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. while protesting the Trump administration's climate change policies, alongside co-star Jane Fonda |
| 2018 | Waterston played the role of Erwin Griswold in the biographical legal drama 'On the Basis of Sex'. |
| 2017 | Portrayed George DuPont in the political thriller Miss Sloane, starring alongside Jessica Chastain. |
| 2017 | Played Marshal John Cook in the Netflix western limited series Godless, acting opposite Jeff Daniels and Michelle Dockery. |
| 2017 | Played Erwin Griswold in the biographical drama On the Basis of Sex, starring Felicity Jones as Ruth Bader Ginsburg. |
| 2016 | Waterston portrayed George Dupont in the film 'Miss Sloane'. |
| 2015 | Sam Waterston appeared in the documentary 'Dateline: Saigon'. |
| 2015 | Started playing Sol Bergstein in Netflix series Grace and Frankie, appearing in 94 episodes until 2022. |
| 2015 | Waterston played Professor Walter Zarrow in the film 'Anesthesia'. |
| 2015 | Performed as Prospero in a Shakespeare in the Park production of The Tempest, directed by Michael Greif. |
| 2015 | Joined the cast of Netflix series Grace and Frankie, starring alongside Martin Sheen, Jane Fonda, and Lily Tomlin. Publicly supported Tomlin and Fonda in demanding higher salaries. |
| 2014 | Concluded his role in The Newsroom series |
| 2014 | Sam Waterston appeared in the film 'Please Be Normal' as the character Dad. |
| 2013 | Sam Waterston was featured in two documentary films: 'The Path to Violence' and 'Cooper & Hemingway: The True Gen'. |
| 2012 | Endorsed Democratic President Barack Obama for re-election |
| 2012 | Begins portraying Charlie Skinner in HBO's The Newsroom, another notable television role. |
| 2012 | Received the Goodermote Humanitarian Award from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health for his longtime support of refugees around the world. |
| 2012 | Inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. |
| 2011 | Sam Waterston played Bernard Berenson in 'The Old Masters' at Long Wharf Theatre |
| 2011 | Sam Waterston portrayed King Lear in a production at Joseph Papp Public Theater / Newman Theater |
| 2010 | Sam Waterston performed as Henry Parsons in 'Have You Seen Us?' at the Folger Theatre |
| 2010 | Sam Waterston appeared in the documentary short film 'The Last Boat Out'. |
| January 7 2010 | Received the 2,397th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. |
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