Lawrence Francis O’Donnell Jr. is an American television anchor, actor, political commentator, and host of The Last Word. He was a writer and producer for the NBC series The West Wing. He also appeared as a recurring character on the HBO series, Big Love. He has also appeared in two episodes of Showtime’s Homeland and in an episode of Two Cathedrals.
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Lawrence Francis O’Donnell Jr. is an American television anchor, actor, political commentator, and host of The Last Word. He was a writer and producer for the NBC series The West Wing. He also appeared as a recurring character on the HBO series, Big Love. He is of Irish descent and grew up Catholic. He describes himself as a \”practical European socialist\”. In 2017, he published the book Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics. He has been a regular contributor on Morning Joe with Joe Scarborough since 2009. In April 2012, he criticized Mitt Romney’s speech on religion, stating: “Romney comes from a religion that was founded by a criminal who was anti-American, pro-lavery, and a rapist” He has also appeared in two episodes of Showtime’s Homeland and in an episode of Two Cathedrals, about a polygamous family in Utah. He currently hosts an MSNBC opinion and news program that airs on weeknights at 10 p.m.
Eastern time. He won the 2001 Emmy award for Outstanding Drama Series for The WestWing and was nominated for the 2006 Emmy for the same category. In 2011, he took over the 8 p. m. Eastern slot from Keith Olbermann after Olberman announced the abrupt termination of his show, Countdown with Keith Obermann. He played Lee Henrickson, the family attorney, in the series Big Love, about the polygamist family in the Utah state of Utah. In 2013, he played President Josiah Bartlet in a flashback sequence of the episode “TwoCathedrals” in which Bartlet’s father, Josiah, was killed by a serial killer. He appeared in the film A Case of Deadly Force with Richard Crenna and Tate Donovan, in which he played his father, and for which he was associate producer. In 2014, he appeared as Judge Lawrence Barr on the Showtime series Homeland.
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