Sam Waterston drove voters to the polls in Connecticut
One first-time voter had no idea who the longtime "Law & Order" star was.
Longtime “Law & Order” star and Cambridge native Sam Waterston spent election day driving voters to the polls in Connecticut.
Waterston, who according to NBC Connecticut now lives in the Nutmeg State, wore a T-shirt supporting Jahana Hayes, a former national teacher of the year who won the race for Connecticut’s Fifth Congressional District in the US House of Representatives. Hayes posted a video on her Twitter page Tuesday afternoon featuring Waterston and a first-time voter named Shanice whom Waterston drove to the polls.
“Today was my first time voting, and I had the pleasure of having Sam Waterston take me,” Shanice said in the video. “He didn’t even let me know who he was. He rolled me around, everything, took me to vote. And then when I got back in the car, there was people talking about, they want an autograph, and this and that. And I be like, ‘Who is this guy?'”
Today was Shanice’s first time voting! And to her surprise Law & Order actor, @samwaterston, gave her a ride to her polling location! #MakingHistory #FirstTimeVoter #TeamHayes pic.twitter.com/sVqYDsDRKj
— Jahana Hayes (@JahanaHayesCT) November 6, 2018
Waterston, who attended the Groton School in Groton before heading to Yale University, most famously played District Attorney Jack McCoy on “Law & Order” for 16 seasons, and has reprised the role several times on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” most recently in February 2018. He currently stars in the Netflix comedy “Grace and Frankie” alongside Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, June Diane Raphael, and Martin Sheen. The show’s fifth season is expected to land on the streaming platform sometime in 2019.
