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.
Filmography
Dolly: An NBC News Special
2026
as Self - Host
Instadocs: Alex Murdaugh, Unconvicted
2026
as Self (archive footage)
Atrocity Inc.
2024
as Self (archive footage)
The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump
2024
as Self (archive footage)
Whitney Houston & Bobbi Kristina: Didn't We Almost Have It All
2021
as Self (archive footage)
One World: Together at Home
2020
as Self
- No poster
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
2018
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Get Me Roger Stone
2017
as Self (archive footage)
Business of Disaster
2016
as Self - NBC Reporter
- No poster
2012 Startling New Secrets
2009
Witness to Jonestown
2008
as Himself
Mystery of the Crystal Skulls
2008
as Himself - Host
- No poster
The 9/11 Conspiracies: Fact or Fiction
2007
as Self - Host
Primal Fear
1996
as WBBM Anchor
Miracle on 34th Street
1994
as Newscaster
The Fugitive
1993
as Newscaster