Lester Holt
Known for: Acting
Born: March 8, 1959
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
15 movies · 17 TV shows, newest first
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Dolly: An NBC News Special
2026
10.0
Atrocity Inc.
2024
7.4
The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump
2024
8.7
Whitney Houston & Bobbi Kristina: Didn't We Almost Have It All
2021
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Obama
2020
6.7
Whose Vote Counts, Explained
2020
7.1
One World: Together at Home
2020
6.3
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019NR
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
2018
6.0
Steve
2017
8.1
Dateline: Secrets Uncovered
2017
7.0
Get Me Roger Stone
2017
10.0
Business of Disaster
2016
5.1
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
5.8
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
6.5
Hollywood Game Night
2013
7.0
Steve Harvey
20124.3
2012 Startling New Secrets
2009
7.7
Warehouse 13
2009
6.4
Witness to Jonestown
2008
3.0
Mystery of the Crystal Skulls
2008NR
The 9/11 Conspiracies: Fact or Fiction
2007
7.5
30 Rock
2006
7.2
Miley's New Year's Eve Party
2004
7.7
Primal Fear
1996
6.8
Miracle on 34th Street
1994
7.2
Chicago Hope
1994
7.3
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
7.5
The Fugitive
1993
5.4
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
6.5
Dateline
1992
6.8
NBC Nightly News
1970