James Waterston

James Waterston is an American actor who came to attention as Gerard Pitts in Dead Poets Society (1989), his first screen role, and has worked mostly in television since. He appeared in the 2015 film And It Was Good, and his stage credits include the lead in the 2011 world premiere of David Henry Hwang's Chinglish at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, along with many off-Broadway plays in New York City and New England. On television he has played a range of parts across the Law & Order franchise, including a doctor in a 1999 episode and a congressman on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in 2017, and he has also appeared in dramas such as Diagnosis: Murder, The Good Wife and The Blacklist. He played Rev. David Grantland in the Christy television movies, Christy: Return to Cutter Gap (2000) and the 2001 two-part Christy, Choices of the Heart.