Lester Holt

Personal Info

Birthday

March 8, 1959

(66 years old)

Place of Birth

Hamilton Air Force Base, California, USA

Also Known As

Lester Don Holt, Jr.

Lester Holt

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

30 Rock

Warehouse 13

The Fugitive

Primal Fear

Miracle on 34th Street

The 9/11 Conspiracies: Fact or Fiction

Filmography

2024
Atrocity Inc.
as Self (archive footage)
The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Whitney Houston & Bobbi Kristina: Didn't We Almost Have It All
as Self (archive footage)
2020
One World: Together at Home
as Self
2018
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2017
Get Me Roger Stone
as Self (archive footage)
2008
Witness to Jonestown
as Himself
Mystery of the Crystal Skulls
as Himself - Host
2007
The 9/11 Conspiracies: Fact or Fiction
as Host
1996
Primal Fear
as WBBM Anchor
1994
Miracle on 34th Street
as Newscaster
1993
The Fugitive
as Newscaster