Lester Holt
Acting1959Hamilton Air Force Base, California, USA
Biography
Lester Don Holt Jr. (born March 8, 1959) is an American journalist and news anchor for the weekday edition of NBC Nightly News, NBC Nightly News Kids Edition, and Dateline NBC. On June 18, 2015, he was made the permanent anchor of NBC Nightly News following the demotion of Brian Williams. He followed in the career footsteps of Max Robinson, an ABC News evening co-anchor, and Holt became the first African-American to solo anchor a weekday network nightly newscast.
Known For
Acting History
2025
Dateline
TVas Self - Host / Self - Correspondent• 1 eps
2024
Atrocity Inc.
as Self (archive footage)
The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump
as Self (archive footage)
2022
Dateline: Secrets Uncovered
TVas Self - Correspondent• 2 eps
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TVas Self - Guest• 4 eps
2021
Whitney Houston & Bobbi Kristina: Didn't We Almost Have It All
as Self (archive footage)
2020
One World: Together at Home
as Self
Whose Vote Counts, Explained
TVas Self (archive footage)• 1 eps
Obama
TVas Self
2018
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Miley's New Year's Eve Party
TVas Self - Guest• 1 eps
2017
Get Me Roger Stone
as Self (archive footage)
2016
Business of Disaster
as Self - NBC Reporter
2014
Hollywood Game Night
TVas Self• 1 eps
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TVas Self
2012
Warehouse 13
TVas Lester Holt• 1 eps
2008
Witness to Jonestown
as Himself
Mystery of the Crystal Skulls
as Himself - Host
2007
The 9/11 Conspiracies: Fact or Fiction
as Self - Host
30 Rock
TVas Lester Holt• 5 eps
1997
Chicago Hope
TVas Anchorman (uncredited)• 1 eps
1996
Primal Fear
as WBBM Anchor
1994
Miracle on 34th Street
as Newscaster
1993
The Fugitive
as Newscaster
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TVas Self - Guest
1970
NBC Nightly News
TVas Self• 152 eps