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. In 1993, President Bill Clinton appointed her as the head of the National Endowment for the Arts. 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). In 1983 she received another Oscar nomination for the post-nuclear war film Testament. He is also on the Advisory Committee for the Lincoln Bicentennial, celebrating Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday. Other television movies include Playing for Time, Calamity Jane, Malice in Wonderland, Blood & Orchids, In Love and War and Daughter of the Streets. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in The Killing Fields.. She also starred in the television productions of Eleanor and Franklin and Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years.

Waterston is a six time Emmy Award nominee, winner of the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild awards. Kramer. Forrest Bedford in I'll Fly Away. She received other nominations for All the President's Men and Kramer vs. Besides Law & Order, he has played other television roles include D.A. In 1969 she debuted on Broadway in The Great White Hope, and took it to Hollywood, where she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best 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. Born Jane Quigley in Boston, Massachusetts, she studied at Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Edinburgh, before beginning to act on the stage in Washington, DC.