Lester Holt
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday8 March 1959 (67 years old)
Place of birthHamilton Air Force Base, California, USA
Known credits33
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.
Dolly: An NBC News Special
2026 · Self - Host
Instadocs: Alex Murdaugh, Unconvicted
2026 · Self (archive footage)
Atrocity Inc.
2024 · Self (archive footage)
The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump
2024 · Self (archive footage)
Whitney Houston & Bobbi Kristina: Didn't We Almost Have It All
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Obama
2020 · Self
Whose Vote Counts, Explained
2020 · Self (archive footage)
One World: Together at Home
2020 · Self
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019 · Self - Guest
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
2018 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Steve
2017 · Self
Dateline: Secrets Uncovered
2017 · Self - Correspondent
Get Me Roger Stone
2017 · Self (archive footage)
Business of Disaster
2016 · Self - NBC Reporter
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Self - Guest
Hollywood Game Night
2013 · Self
Steve Harvey
2012 · Self
2012 Startling New Secrets
2009
Warehouse 13
2009 · Lester Holt
Witness to Jonestown
2008 · Himself
Mystery of the Crystal Skulls
2008 · Himself - Host
The 9/11 Conspiracies: Fact or Fiction
2007 · Self - Host
30 Rock
2006 · Lester Holt
Miley's New Year's Eve Party
2004 · Self - Guest
Primal Fear
1996 · WBBM Anchor
Miracle on 34th Street
1994 · Newscaster
Chicago Hope
1994 · Anchorman (uncredited)
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Self - Guest
The Fugitive
1993 · Newscaster
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Dateline
1992 · Self - Host
Dateline
1992 · Self - Correspondent
NBC Nightly News
1970 · Self
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