James Waterston (born January 17, 1969) is an American film and television actor whose first role was playing Gerard Pitts in the 1989 film Dead Poets Society.
Waterston's most recently appeared in three movies, Christy: Return to Cutter Gap, Christy: A Change of Seasons and Christy: A New Beginning as Rev. David Grantland. In 2011, Waterston debuted the lead role in the world premiere of Chinglish by David Henry Hwang at Chicago's Goodman Theatre, which subsequently moved on to Broadway the same year.