Sam Waterston

Co-starred in the NBC TV-movie, "The Matthew Shepard Story"

Produced the Showtime TV-movie "A House Divided"; also co-starred as the plantation owner who fathered a biracial child

Starred with son James Waterston in a production of "Long Day's Journey Into Night" at Syracuse Stage

Featured as McCoy in "Exiled: A Law & Order Movie" (NBC)

Starred as Dr Karl Koster, a savior of Danish Jews during the Nazi's reign of terror, in the fact-based TV-movie "Miracle at Midnight" (ABC); reteamed with Mia Farrow

Played the U.S. President in the political thriller "Shadow Conspiracy"

Feature film producing debut, "The Journey of August King"; also played small role

Co-starred with Kirstie Alley in the acclaimed TV-movie "David's Mother" (CBS)

Joined cast of the NBC police/lawyer series "Law & Order" in the role of assistant district attorney Jack McCoy, replacing Michael Moriarty; in 2007, his character was promoted to New York district attorney, filling the slot vacated by Fred Thompson's Arthur Branch; earned Emmy (1997, 1999, 2000) nominations

Played the mild-mannered husband of Kathleen Turner's "Serial Mom"

Returned to the NYC stage to play Abraham Lincoln in a revival of Robert Sherwood's "Abe Lincoln in Illinois"; received a Tony nomination

TV directorial debut, the "Since Walter" episode of "I'll Fly Away", aired November 27

Co-starred in the period drama "The Man in the Moon"

Fourth film with Allen, "Crimes and Misdemeanors"

Played Abraham Lincoln in the two-part NBC movie, "Gore Vidal's Lincoln"; Mary Tyler Moore co-starred as Mary Todd Lincoln

Starred with Robert Prosky in "A Walk in the Woods", a play dealing with arms negotiation between the US and the USSR; with Prosky, toured Soviet Union in 1989

Reteamed with Allen for "September"

Appeared in Woody Allen's "Hannah and Her Sisters"

Co-starred with Mary Tyler Moore and Robert Preston in the HBO romance "Finnegan Begin Again"

Received Best Actor Oscar nomination for his leading role as an American journalist in Cambodia in the feature film "The Killing Fields"

Played physicist J Robert Oppenheimer in the seven-part PBS miniseries "Oppenheimer"

Played physicist Quentin E Deverill on the short-lived CBS adventure series "Q.E.D."

Featured in "Hopscotch" and Michael Cimino's disastrous "Heaven's Gate"

Had title role in the feature "Sweet William"

Returned to TV-movies after five years to star opposite Carol Burnett and Ned Beatty in the acclaimed ABC drama "Friendly Fire"

Made first appearance in a Woody Allen film with a role in "Interiors"

Acted in the features "Journey Into Fear" and "Dandy, the All American Girl"

Co-starred with Tuesday Weld in the TV-movie "Reflections on a Murder", loosely inspired by "Diabolique"

First came to attention in a major film, "The Great Gatsby"; played the narrator Nick Carraway; initial film collaboration with Mia Farrow

Made first TV-movie; played Tom in an adaptation of Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" (ABC), starring Katharine Hepburn; garnered first Emmy nomination

Starred opposite Kathleen Widdoes in NYSF Central Park production of "Much Ado About Nothing"; moved to Broadway and filmed for TV; aired on CBS in 1974

Had featured role in the Off-Broadway play "The Trial of the Catonsville Nine"

Starred in Kopit's play "Indians"

Cast as Prince Hal in the NYSF productions of "Henry IV, Part I" and "Henry IV, Part II"

First released feature, "Fitzwilly"

Made film debut in the unreleased feature, "The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean"

TV debut in "Camera Three" (CBS)

Broadway debu in Arthur Kopit's "Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad"

First appearance with the New York Shakespeare Festival (NYSF) in "As You Like It"

Made stage debut aged six as the Page in Jean Anouilh's "Antigone," directed by his father (date approximate)

Acted on Broadway in "Benefactors" alongside Glenn Close and Mary Beth Hurt

Co-starred in the Broadway comedy "Lunch Hour"

Had title role in the NYSF production of "Hamlet"

Starred on TV series, "I'll Fly Away" (NBC); received Emmy nominations in 1992 and 1993