Lester Holt
Acting
1959-03-08 · Hamilton Air Force Base, California, USA
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.
Filmography
TheatersDolly: An NBC News Special
2026 · Movie
Atrocity Inc.
2024 · Movie
The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump
2024 · Movie
Whitney Houston & Bobbi Kristina: Didn't We Almost Have It All
2021 · Movie
Obama
2020 · Series
Whose Vote Counts, Explained
2020 · Series
One World: Together at Home
2020 · Movie
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019 · Series
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
2018 · Movie
Steve
2017 · Series
Dateline: Secrets Uncovered
2017 · Series
Get Me Roger Stone
2017 · Movie
Business of Disaster
2016 · Movie
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Series
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Series
Hollywood Game Night
2013 · Series
Steve Harvey
2012 · Series
2012 Startling New Secrets
2009 · Movie
Warehouse 13
2009 · Series
Witness to Jonestown
2008 · Movie
Mystery of the Crystal Skulls
2008 · Movie
The 9/11 Conspiracies: Fact or Fiction
2007 · Movie
30 Rock
2006 · Series
Miley's New Year's Eve Party
2004 · Series
Primal Fear
1996 · Movie
Miracle on 34th Street
1994 · Movie
Chicago Hope
1994 · Series
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Series
The Fugitive
1993 · Movie
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992 · Series
Dateline
1992 · Series
NBC Nightly News
1970 · Series