Acting

Lester Holt

Born 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.

Credits

Newest first

Dolly: An NBC News Special
as Self - Host
2026
Instadocs: Alex Murdaugh, Unconvicted
as Self (archive footage)
2026
Atrocity Inc.
as Self (archive footage)
2024
The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Whitney Houston & Bobbi Kristina: Didn't We Almost Have It All
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Obama
as Self
2020
Whose Vote Counts, Explained
as Self (archive footage)
2020
One World: Together at Home
as Self
2020
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self - Guest
2019
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2018
Steve
as Self
2017
Dateline: Secrets Uncovered
as Self - Correspondent
2017
Get Me Roger Stone
as Self (archive footage)
2017
Business of Disaster
as Self - NBC Reporter
2016
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest
2014
Hollywood Game Night
as Self
2013
Steve Harvey
as Self
2012
2012 Startling New Secrets
2009
Warehouse 13
as Lester Holt
2009
Witness to Jonestown
as Himself
2008
Mystery of the Crystal Skulls
as Himself - Host
2008
The 9/11 Conspiracies: Fact or Fiction
as Self - Host
2007
30 Rock
as Lester Holt
2006
Miley's New Year's Eve Party
as Self - Guest
2004
Primal Fear
as WBBM Anchor
1996
Miracle on 34th Street
as Newscaster
1994
Chicago Hope
as Anchorman (uncredited)
1994
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1993
The Fugitive
as Newscaster
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Dateline
as Self - Host
1992
Dateline
as Self - Correspondent
1992
NBC Nightly News
as Self
1970