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Once lived in a house previously owned by New Yorker writer James Thurber. Son of George C. Waterston, and grew up at Brooks School, a boarding school in North Andover, MA. He attended Groton Prep School and then entered Yale University on a scholarship in 1958 where he studied French and History and graduated with a BA in 1962. He spent his junior year studying at the Sorbonne in Paris. After failing to quash the acting bug he studied at the American Actors Workshop in Paris. After leaving Yale he spent some months at the Clinton Playhouse. He lives in Connecticut with his wife and four children, Elisabeth Waterston, Katherine, Graham and James Waterston. Received honorary degree from Yale [2001] Forrest Bedford, Waterston's character on I'll Fly Away, was ranked #17 in TV Guide's list of the "50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time" [20 June 2004 issue]. He received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from The University of the South on October 12, 2004 Is the official spokesperson for TD Waterhouse, the online investment company. He appears in all of their television commercials (2003/2004-?) Was nominated for Broadway's 1994 Tony Award as Best Actor (Play) for playing ;Abraham Lincoln (I)' in a revival of Robert E. Sherwood's "Abe Lincoln in Illinois." #23 on Tropopkin's Top 25 Most Intriguing People [Issue #100] Appeared in episodes of four different series with Jerry Orbach: Law & Order, Homicide: Life on the Street, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Law & Order: Trial by Jury. Has appeared in episodes of three different television series with Jesse L. Martin: Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Law & Order: Trial by Jury. Has appeared in episodes of four different series with Richard Belzer: Law & Order, Homicide: Life on the Street, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Law & Order: Trial by Jury. Has the distinction of starring in two television series in which he played a prosecutor--D.A. Forrest Bedford in I'll Fly Away and E.A.D.A. Jack McCoy in Law & Order. He and Stockard Channing were in five films together: David's Mother, The Room Upstairs, Sweet Revenge, The Matthew Shepard Story and Divorce, Le. In the last two they played husband and wife. Both he and his Rancho Deluxe and Heaven's Gate co-star Jeff Bridges were Oscar nominated for Best Actor in 1984, for The Killing Fields and Starman respectively.