Society 2018: "The Freedom of Speech Award" from the Culture and Media Institute 2020: Poynter Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism at the institute's annual fundraising gala in November. Wallace currently sits on the Board of Selectors of Jefferson Awards for Public Service. Personal life Wallace has said that despite his blood relationship with his father, Mike, his stepfather, Bill Leonard, had far more impact on his life. Wallace said that Leonard was "the single most important person in my life". Wallace first developed a relationship with his father in his teens, after his older brother Peter died in 1962 climbing a mountain in Greece. Wallace has been married twice. In 1973, he married Elizabeth Farrell, with whom he has four children: Peter (father of William, Caroline, and James), Megan (mother of Sabine and Livia), Andrew (father of Jack and Luke), and Catherine. In 1997, he married Lorraine Smothers (née Martin, born 1959), the former wife of Dick Smothers. Lorraine has two children from her previous marriage: Sarah Smothers and Remick Smothers. In 2006, The Washington Post reported that Wallace was registered as a Democrat in Washington, D.C., and had been so for more than two decades. Wallace said that he did so for pragmatic reasons, in response to the party's preeminence in the city's politics, commenting: "If you want a say in who's going to be the next mayor or councilman, you have to vote in the Democratic primary." He maintained that he had voted for candidates from both major parties in the past. In popular culture In 2016, Wallace was portrayed by Tom Hanks on Saturday Night Live in the Third Presidential Debate Cold Open. He was played by Beck Bennett in 2020. In 2019, Wallace was portrayed by Marc Evan Jackson in Jay Roach's film Bombshell. References External links Biography at Fox News 1947 births 20th-century American journalists 21st-century American Jews 21st-century American journalists ABC News personalities American male journalists American people of Russian-Jewish descent American political commentators American television news anchors American television reporters and correspondents Emmy Award winners Fox News people Harvard College alumni Hotchkiss School alumni Jewish American journalists Journalists from Washington, D.C. Living people NBC News people People from Chicago Washington, D.C., Democrats