Lester Holt
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 8 March 1959 · 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.
Known for
Acting 18
- 2026Dolly: An NBC News Special as Self - Host
- 2026Instadocs: Alex Murdaugh, Unconvicted as Self (archive footage)
- 2024Atrocity Inc. as Self (archive footage)
- 2024The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump as Self (archive footage)
- 2021Whitney Houston & Bobbi Kristina: Didn't We Almost Have It All as Self (archive footage)
- 2020One World: Together at Home as Self
- 2019The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self - Guest · 4 episodes
- 2018Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2017Get Me Roger Stone as Self (archive footage)
- 2016Business of Disaster as Self - NBC Reporter
- 2014Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self - Guest · 2 episodes
- 20092012 Startling New Secrets
- 2008Witness to Jonestown as Himself
- 2008Mystery of the Crystal Skulls as Himself - Host
- 2007The 9/11 Conspiracies: Fact or Fiction as Self - Host
- 1996Primal Fear as WBBM Anchor
- 1994Miracle on 34th Street as Newscaster
- 1993The Fugitive as Newscaster