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Lester Holt

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.

Filmography
Atrocity Inc. poster
Atrocity Inc.
2024 • Self (archive footage)
The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump poster
The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump
2024 • Self (archive footage)
Whitney Houston & Bobbi Kristina: Didn't We Almost Have It All poster
Whitney Houston & Bobbi Kristina: Didn't We Almost Have It All
2021 • Self (archive footage)
One World: Together at Home poster
One World: Together at Home
2020 • Self
No Image
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
2018 • Self - Narrator (voice)
Get Me Roger Stone poster
Get Me Roger Stone
2017 • Self (archive footage)
Business of Disaster poster
Business of Disaster
2016 • Self - NBC Reporter
No Image
2012 Startling New Secrets
2009
Witness to Jonestown poster
Witness to Jonestown
2008 • Himself
Mystery of the Crystal Skulls poster
Mystery of the Crystal Skulls
2008 • Himself - Host
No Image
The 9/11 Conspiracies: Fact or Fiction
2007 • Self - Host
Primal Fear poster
Primal Fear
1996 • WBBM Anchor
Miracle on 34th Street poster
Miracle on 34th Street
1994 • Newscaster
The Fugitive poster
The Fugitive
1993 • Newscaster