- Born Name: Samuel Atkinson Waterston
- Birthday: 1940-11-15 (Year-Month-Day)
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- Spouse(s): Barbara Rutledge (1964-1969) Lynn Louisa Woodruff (1976-)
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- Medium: actor, television producer, television director
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Sam Waterston, This article is about the American actor. For other uses, see Waterston (disambiguation).Samuel Atkinson Sam Waterston (born November 15, 1940) is an American actor and occasional producer and director. Among other roles, he is noted for his Academy Award-nominated portrayal of Sydney Schanberg in 1984s The Killing Fields, and his Golden Globe- and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning portrayal of Jack McCoy on the NBC television series Law & Order. He has been nominated for multiple Golden Globe-, Screen Actors Guild-, BAFTA- and Emmy Awards, having starred in over eighty film and television productions during his forty-five year career. Allmovie has characterised Waterston as having cultivated a loyal following with his quietly charismatic, unfailingly solid performances. In January 2010, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.