Sam Waterston

An active humanitarian, Waterston also donates considerable time to organizations such as Refugees International, Citymeals-on-Wheels, The United Way, and The Episcopal Actor's Guild of America. She is married to the actor Peter Friedman. Waterston, who takes an active interest in Lincoln, has portrayed Lincoln on stage and screen (The Civil War, Gore Vidal's Lincoln and Abe Lincoln in Illinois on Broadway). She has also starred in the mini series The Mists of Avalon (on TNT). He is also on the Advisory Committee for the Lincoln Bicentennial, celebrating Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday. She was also nominated for Best Actress in The Contender as a politician who becomes the object of scandal. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in The Killing Fields.. She received Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Pat Nixon in Nixon (1995) and for her role as a woman whose husband is accused of witchcraft in The Crucible (1996).

Waterston is a six time Emmy Award nominee, winner of the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild awards. In 1989 Allen returned to the stage and won a Tony Award in her Broadway debut performance in Burn This. Forrest Bedford in I'll Fly Away. Allen began her acting career as as a stage actress and on television before making her film debut in Compromising Positions (1985). Besides Law & Order, he has played other television roles include D.A. Joan Allen (born August 20, 1956 in Rochelle, Illinois, USA) is an American actress. Other films include The Great Gatsby, Rancho Deluxe, Journey Into Fear, Capricorn One, Heaven's Gate, Hopscotch, The Killing Fields (nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor), Interiors, Hannah and Her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Mindwalk and Serial Mom. The Notebook (2004).

His first film was Fitzwilly in 1967. The Bourne Supremacy (2004). Waterston grew up at the Brooks School, a boarding school in North Andover, Massachusetts. He attended the Groton School (another prep school), Yale University, and the Sorbonne. Pleasantville (1998). Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Waterston is equally at home on the stage, in movies, and on television. Face/Off (1997). Sam Waterston (born November 15, 1940) is an American actor noted particularly for his portrayal of Executive Assistant District Attorney John "Jack" McCoy on the long-running NBC television series Law & Order, as well as for his many motion picture roles. The Ice Storm (1997).

Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993). Peggy Sue Got Married (1986).