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Feb 22, 2024 · District Attorney Jack McCoy, played by veteran actor Sam Waterston, is willing to give everything he has one last time in exchange for justice. By Jill Sederstrom Feb 22, 2024, 9:00 PM ET ...
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Feb 21, 2024 · Aside from his status as a seasoned Law & Order franchise guest star, James has appeared in ER (2002), Six Feet Under (2004), and The Good Wife (2010). James also made guest appearances on...
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James Smallwood Waterston (born January 17, 1969 in New York City, New York) is an actor who played four different characters on Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
Waterston starred in the film Dead Poets Society (with Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, and Josh Charles).
He is the son of Sam Waterston, the actor who played DA Jack McCoy, and the older half-brother of actresses Elisabeth Waterston and Katherine Waterston, and filmmaker Graham Waterston. He is the brother-in-law of actor Louis Cancelmi, the brother of actress Annie Parisse, who played Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Borgia, who married his sister Elisabeth.
He helped founded the Malaparte theater company, along with Josh Hamilton, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Steve Zahn, and Frank Whaley, until Malaparte officially dissolved in 2000, in part because the members wanted to devote more time to their children.
Law & Order
•Refuge (2) (1999) as Dr. Shimo
Law & Order: CI
•The Glory That Was (2009) as Paul Walters
Law & Order: SVU
•Inconceivable (2008) as Mr. Harvey
Feb 22, 2024 · Feb. 14, 2022. A Yale-educated actor who has played Hamlet on Broadway, Waterston admits there was a time he looked down on TV. Initially, he only planned to do a single season of “Law &...
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Waterston gained stardom portraying Jack McCoy on the NBC crime series Law & Order (1994–2010, 2022–2024), for which he received a Screen Actors Guild Award along with Golden Globe Award and Emmy Award nominations. He portrayed J. Robert Oppenheimer in the BBC miniseries Oppenheimer (1980), and Abraham Lincoln in the miniseries Lincoln (1988).
Feb 23, 2024 · Will Hart/NBC. Jack McCoy is officially done in the courtroom. Sam Waterston appeared in his final episode of “Law & Order” on Thursday, Feb. 22. Following a conviction and going against the...
Feb 22, 2024 · Jack McCoy left the world of Law & Order the way he came into it — in a courtroom. Sam Waterston said goodbye to the long-running NBC franchise in Thursday’s episode, ending his 19-season,...
