
Actor
Forrest Sawyer
Born 1949 · Lakeland, Florida, USA
Forrest Sawyer (born April 19, 1949) is an American broadcast journalist. Sawyer worked 11 years with ABC News, where he frequently anchored ABC World News Tonight and Nightline and reported for all ABC News broadcasts. He anchored the newsmagazines "Day One" and "Turning Point" He recorded stories from all over the globe, and earned awards for his reports and documentaries, including Emmy Awards in 1992, 1993, and 1994. He left ABC News in 1999 to become a news anchor for both NBC and its cable counterpart, MSNBC, where he was a regular substitute for Brian Williams as anchor for The News with Brian Williams. He left NBC News in 2005 to become founder and president of Freefall Productions, where he produces documentaries and serves as a media strategist and guest lecturer.
Acting

The West Wing
Forrest Sawyer · 1999

The Manchurian Candidate
Newscaster #1 · 2004

MS NOW Reports
Self · 1996

The Nineties
Self (archive footage) · 2017

Liberty!
Self - Host · 1997

In France with Madonna
Self (archive footage) · 2022
Day One
Host · 1993

An Empire of Reason
Self · 1988
Behind the Terror
himself · 2001