Sam Waterston, 79, is currently starring in Grace and Frankie, a comedy series on Netflix. His renowned TV series starting in 1990s, Law and Order, is coming to the new NBC streaming service starting April 15.
Waterston talks about Grace and Frankie on The Today Show below.
Waterson is probably best known for his award winning role as Jack McCoy on the NBC television series, Law and Order. You can rent individual episodes of Law and Order now from Amazon Prime. The series will be available later this year on Peacock.
Law and Order Coming To Peacock
NBCUniversal recently announced their new streaming service, named Peacock, will launch April 15, 2020 for Xfinity and Xfinity Flex subscribers, and be available to most other cable services on July 15. Peacock will feature more than 600 movies and 400 series, including Law and Order. Peacock will have a free version with commercials and a commercial-free version that is bundled at no additional cost to Comcast and Cox subscribers, and $4.99 a month for other customers.
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Xfinity X1 and Flex customers will have early bird access to Peacock Premium starting April 15. And beginning July 15, taking full advantage of the massive promotional opportunity of the Tokyo Olympics, Peacock Free and Peacock Premium will be available nationally on popular web, mobile and connected-TV devices. The company expects to reach 30-35 million active accounts by 2024.
Here’s an interview where Waterston looks back on Law and Order.
More Sam Waterston Roles
Another notable role for Sam Waterston was in the starring in the 1984 acclaimed film, “The Killing Fields.” A preview is below. CLICK HERE to see this title on Amazon, where you can rent it for about $1.
Sam Waterston’s Golden Globes Award
Waterston won the Golden Globes award for Best Actor in 1993; here’s his acceptance speech:
Sam Waterston Audiobooks
Sam Waterston has narrated two audio books. For a complete list of his available audio book titles, visit: Sam Waterston on Audible
More on Sam Waterston (from Wikipedia)
Samuel Atkinson Waterston (born November 15, 1940) is an American actor, producer, and director. Among other roles, he is noted for his portrayal of Sydney Schanberg in The Killing Fields (1984), for which he received an Academy Award nomination, and his starring role as Jack McCoy on the NBC television series Law & Order (1994–2010) and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2000, 2007, 2010), which brought him Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards. 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 fifty-year career. He has also starred in numerous stage productions. AllMovie historian Hal Erickson characterized Waterston as having “cultivated a loyal following with his quietly charismatic, unfailingly solid performances.”
Waterston received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010 and was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 2012.
Waterston is a six-time Emmy Award nominee, as well as a winner of the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Aside from Law & Order, other television roles include D.A. Forrest Bedford in I’ll Fly Away, for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Drama Series in 1993. He had a starring role in an episode segment on the TV series Amazing Stories called “Mirror Mirror“. In 1994, he appeared as US President William Foster, alongside Forest Whitaker and Dana Delany, in the television film The Enemy Within, a remake of director John Frankenheimer’s Cold War political thriller Seven Days in May.
In 1994, Waterston debuted as Executive Assistant District Attorney Jack McCoy in the fifth season of the television series Law & Order. He played the role of McCoy, who would eventually become District Attorney, through the series finale in 2010, and has reprised the role throughout the Law and Order franchise. Upon the show’s cancellation, Waterston was the second longest-serving cast member (behind S. Epatha Merkerson), having reprised his role through 16 seasons.
Waterston served on the Advisory Committee for the Lincoln Bicentennial, celebrating Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday. He has portrayed Lincoln on stage and screen (The Civil War, Gore Vidal‘s Lincoln, and the Broadway play Abe Lincoln in Illinois). He voiced Lincoln in an exhibit at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, and delivered Lincoln’s Cooper Union speech on May 5, 2004.
Waterston returned to television in 2012 as cable news president Charlie Skinner in The Newsroom, an HBO series by Aaron Sorkin.
In 2015, Waterston joined the cast of the Netflix series Grace and Frankie, starring alongside Martin Sheen, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin.
Is Sam Waterston Married?
Waterston and his first wife, Barbara Rutledge-Johns, divorced in 1975. They have one son, James, also an actor. Waterston married his second wife, former model Lynn Louisa Woodruff, in 1976. They have three children, daughters Katherine Waterston and Elisabeth Waterston, who are also actresses, and a son, Graham. They have a summer home in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts.
An active humanitarian, Waterston donates time to organizations such as Oceana, where he is a board member, Refugees International, Meals on Wheels, The United Way, and The Episcopal Actors’ Guild of America. In 2012, Waterston received the Goodermote Humanitarian Award from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health for his longtime support of refugees around the world.
Waterston, a practicing Episcopalian, narrated the 1999 biographical documentary of Episcopal civil rights martyr Jonathan Myrick Daniels, Here Am I, Send Me, produced, directed and filmed by Lawrence M. Benaquist.
Waterston has stated that he was a Democrat until he left the party in disgust following the airing of Lyndon B. Johnson’s “Daisy” election advertisement in 1964. However, he endorsed Democratic President Barack Obama for re-election in 2012, and is currently a registered Democrat.
On October 18, 2019, Waterston was arrested with Grace and Frankie co-star Jane Fonda for protesting climate change outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C.
Sam Waterston’s Net Worth
Sam Waterston’s net worth as of 2019 is about $15 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth.
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Where Is Sam Waterston on TV Today?
You can get a listing of all Sam Waterston appearances on network and cable TV at This TV Guide Link
You can find Law and Order Special Victims Unit on NBC Streaming. Sam Waterston is not a regular but sometimes makes an appearance.
You can rent individual episodes of Law and Order from Amazon Prime. The series will be available on Peacock, the new NBC streaming service, later this year.
Sam Waterston’s Birthday: November 15, 1940