Innate inside Cambridge, Massachusetts to George Chychele Waterston (an English immigrant) and Alice Tucker Atkinson (an American Mayflower descendant), Waterstin is equally at home on the stage, within pic, & on television. Waterston grew higher at a Brooks School, a boarding school inside North Andover, Massachusetts. He attended a Groton School (another preparatory school), Yale University, and a Sorbonne.

His 1st film was Fitzwilly in 1967. More 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, Serial Mom, and Predator 1 and 2 .

Besides Law & Order, he has played other television roles including D.A. Forrest Bedford inside I'll Fly Away.

Waterston occurs as 6 instance Emmy Award nominee, winner of the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild awards. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in The Killing Fields.''

He is besides on the Advisory Committee for the Lincoln Bicentennial, celebrating Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday. Waterstin, world health organization will require an active interest around Lincoln, has portrayed Lincoln on stage & screen (The Civil War, ''Gore Vidal's Lincoln and Abe Lincoln around Illinois'' in Broadway).

An active humanistic, Waterston likewise donates considerable instance to organizations like Refugees International, City meals-on-Wheels, The United Way, and The Episcopal Actors' Guild of America.

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He has appeared inside episodes of quartet different series sustaining Richard Belzer: Law & Order, Homicide: Life on the Street, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Law & Order: Trial by Jury.

He besides manufactured the cameo appearance in an episode of Saturday Night Live as himself, extolling the virtues of Old Glory Insurance - meant to protect a user from either robot attacks.

He lent his voice to the popular alive television series Family Guy where he played Dr. Kaplan, a head-shrinker Brian consulted in the period of his midlife crisis in the episode Brian Within Love. His character, Dr. Kaplan, was modelled to look prefer Waterston.