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Once lived in a house previously owned by New Yorker writer James Thurber. 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 Waterston, Graham Waterston and James Waterston. Forrest Bedford, Waterston's character on "I'll Fly Away" (1991), was ranked #17 in TV Guide's list of the "50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time" [20 June 2004 issue]. Is the official spokesperson for TD Waterhouse, the online investment company. He appears in all of their television commercials (2003/2004-?) #23 on Tropopkin's Top 25 Most Intriguing People [Issue #100] Has appeared in episodes of three different television series with Jesse L. Martin: "Law & Order" (1990), "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (1999) and "Law & Order: Trial by Jury" (2005). Has the distinction of starring in two television series in which he played a prosecutor--D.A. Forrest Bedford in "I'll Fly Away" (1991) and E.A.D.A. Jack McCoy in "Law & Order" (1990). Both he and his Rancho Deluxe (1975) and Heaven's Gate (1980) co-star Jeff Bridges were Oscar nominated for Best Actor in 1984, for The Killing Fields (1984) and Starman (1984) respectively. Three of his children followed him into the show business industry: Elisabeth Waterston, Katherine Waterston, and James Waterston. Has a summer home in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts. Father in law of Louis Cancelmi. Eight cousin three times removed of George Bush and four times removed of George W. Bush and eighth cousin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.