NEW YORK (AP) – Sam Waterston plays a no-nonsense district attorney who plays a spy in a movie. “Law and order” It has been out of legal status since the mid-1990s.
NBC announced Friday that Waterston’s final episode of Jack McCoy will be on February 22nd. He appeared in over 400 episodes of the police drama and won his SAG Award for this role and was nominated for an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.
“It’s time for me to move on and bring Jack McCoy with me,” Waterston said in a statement. “I’m sad to leave, but I’m also very curious about what happens next. Actors don’t want to make themselves too comfortable.”
Tony Goldwyn, who appeared in Scandal and the 1990 film Ghost, has been cast to play the new district attorney.
McCoy and prosecutors end up filing a lawsuit on behalf of “two separate but equally important groups,” as the narrator puts it, after New York City detectives finish their criminal investigation.
McCoy was an intelligent, dedicated angel of justice, but prone to moral outrage and cutting straight to the truth. “Your grief might have seemed a little more genuine if you hadn’t just admitted that you decapitated his wife,” he once told a defendant.
The bushy-browed Waterston began his career as a stage actor in New York, where he played numerous Shakespearean roles, including Lear, Hamlet, Polonius, Laertes, Prospero, Leonato, Prince Hal, Sylvius, Cloten, and Benedict.
This led Waterston to play Nick Carraway opposite Robert Redford in The Great Gatsby, and to play Tom in the television production of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie, starring Katharine Hepburn. He received his first Emmy nomination for his role as Wingfield.
Waterston, 83, joined Season 4 of Law & Order in 1994 and remained on the show until its end in 2010, before returning for the 2022 reboot.
