Sam Waterston Net Worth , Biography Age, Family, wiki, And Life Story What are Sam Waterston's net worth and salary? American actor, w...
What are Sam Waterston's net worth and salary?
American actor, writer, and director Sam Waterston has a net worth of $20 million. After starting out in New York as a stage actor, Waterston went on to be in a number of movies in the 1970s and 1980s. Even though he stopped making as many movies, he continued to act in a number of live shows. Sam is known for being in movies by Woody Allen and for being the main character on "Law & Order." He is also known for movies like "The Killing Fields" and "The Great Gatsby." Fans may know him from recent projects like the Netflix show "Godless," the HBO thriller "The Newsroom," movies like "On the Basis of Sex," and the Hulu show "The Dropout," which will debut in 2022.
Category:
Richest Celebrities › Actors
Net Worth:
$20 Million
Salary:
$65 Thousand Per Episode
Date of Birth:
Nov 15, 1940 (82 years old)
Place of Birth:
Cambridge
Gender:
Male
Height:
6 ft (1.854 m)
Profession:
Actor, Television producer, Television Director, Voice Actor, Film Producer
Nationality:
United States of America
He has won a number of awards over the course of his work, including nominations for the Tony Awards, the Academy Awards, the Drama Desk Awards, the Golden Globe Awards, the Outer Critics Circle Awards, the Screen Actors Guild Awards, and many more. In 2012, Waterston was admitted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. In 2010, he got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Early Years
Samuel Atkinson Waterston was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on November 15, 1940. As the youngest of four children raised by a teacher and a painter, Waterston was exposed to art from a young age. Sam went to Yale University after he graduated from high school to study theater. He finished school and got a BA in 1962.
Career
In the 1960s, when Sam was just starting out as an actor, he became known for his parts in Shakespeare plays like "Much Ado About Nothing" and "Hamlet." He was also in shows on Broadway, like "Indians." In the 1970s, he started to act in both movies and plays. Waterston had a big breakthrough in 1974 when he played Nick Carraway in "The Great Gatsby." During this time, he also became known for being in Woody Allen's movie "Interiors."
Even though he was in a number of movies in the 1970s, Waterston's main focus was always the stage, especially in the beginning of his career. During the 1970s, he also found time to play in an off-Broadway version of Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure," alongside well-known actors like Meryl Streep and John Cazale. In the 1980s, he also acted in plays like "Benefactors" and "Abe Lincoln in Illinois," which received a lot of praise from critics. During the 1980s, he was also praised for his role in "The Killing Films," for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. He also did a lot of work with Woody Allen in the 1980s, and he was in three of his movies during that time.
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He kept making movies in the 1990s, like "The Man in the Moon," "Serial Mom," and "Nixon." In the 1990s, he also got his first big TV job as the main character Jack McCoy on the show "Law & Order." The show ran from 1994 to 2010, and it will start up again in 2022. Waterson has been on the show more than 370 times.
He went back on stage in 1993 to play Abe Lincoln in "Abe Lincoln in Illinois."
After the 2010s, Waterston has continued to act on stages all over the country, with a focus on Shakespeare plays in many cases. He has also been in movies like "Miss Sloane" and "On the Basis of Sex." He is best known for his roles in TV shows like "The Newsroom" and "Grace and Frankie" which were made after 2010.
In 2022, Sam played George Shultz on the Hulu show "The Dropout."
Relationships
After having one child together, Waterston and his first wife split up in 1975. He married his second wife, a model, a year later. After that, they had three kids together.
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