Nov 15, 1940

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Son of George Chychele Waterston aka G. Chychele Waterston or George C. Waterston (1904-1995), diplomat, linguist, and wife Alice Tucker Atkinson, and paternal grandson of musician Robert Whitman Atkinson (1868-1934) and wife Elizabeth Bispham Page; 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 yea... ... (read more...) r 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 and James Waterston