Television: “Law & Order” star Sam Waterston quits

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“Law & Order” star Sam Waterston is quitting

Sam Waterston has played the prosecutor on the series “Law & Order” since the mid-1990s. photo

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Sam Waterston played the role of lawyer Jack MacCoy in over 400 episodes of the cult crime series “Law & Order”. With a crying and laughing eye he now announces his departure.

The American actor Sam Waterston says goodbye to the cult series “Law & Order” after over 400 episodes. Since 1994, the now 83-year-old star had played the scrappy lawyer Jack McCoy in the crime series. It is now time to move forward and take Jack McCoy with us, Waterston wrote in a statement. He is at the same time sad about saying goodbye, but also curious about the future. The actor thanked TV producer and series creator Dick Wolf and the “absolutely amazing” viewers.

According to NBC, Waterston will be seen on screen for the last time in the current 24th season on February 22nd. His character will then be replaced by a new prosecutor, played by Tony Goldwyn (63, “Oppenheimer”, “Scandal”).

The New York investigators’ first cases aired on NBC in 1990. The award-winning series was initially discontinued in 2010, but continued in 2022.

Waterston has had a long Hollywood career. He appeared in films such as “The Great Gatsby” (1974) and “The Killing Fields” (1984). He appeared in front of the camera several times for Woody Allen (“Crimes and Other Trifles”, “Hannah and Her Sisters”, “Inner Life”). From 2015 to 2022 he starred alongside Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Martin Sheen in the Netflix series “Grace and Frankie”.

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