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Name
David Strathairn

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1949-01-26 (77 years old)

Place of Birth
San Francisco, California, USA

Biography

David Russell Strathairn (born January 26, 1949) is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of journalist Edward R. Murrow in the feature film Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. He also starred in L.A. Confidential (1997), Godzilla (2014), and the Bourne franchise (2007–2012).

Strathairn appeared in supporting roles in many notable films such as A League of Their Own (1992), Sneakers (1992), The Firm (1993), The River Wild (1995), Lincoln (2012), Nomadland (2020), and Nightmare Alley (2021). He is a frequent collaborator with director John Sayles, who is a fellow graduate of Williams College.

On television, Strathairn is known for his recurring roles in The Sopranos (2004), Alphas (2011–2012), The Blacklist (2015–2016), Billions (2017–2019), and The Expanse (2018–2019). He received a Primetime Emmy Award win and a Golden Globe Award nomination for his performance in the HBO television film Temple Grandin (2010).

Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

2000 The Miracle Worker as Captain Keller
1989 The Feud as The Stranger
1997 L.A. Confidential as Pierce Patchett
1999 A Midsummer Night's Dream as Theseus
1991 City of Hope as Asteroid
1992 Sneakers as Whistler
1996 Mother Night as Bernard B. O'Hare
2005 Good Night, and Good Luck. as Edward R. Murrow
1992 Bob Roberts as Mack Laflin
2007 The Bourne Ultimatum as Noah Vosen
2007 My Blueberry Nights as Arnie
2006 We Are Marshall as President Dedmon
2009 Cold Souls as Dr. Flintstein
2007 Fracture as Joe Lobruto
1995 Dolores Claiborne as Joe St. George
1987 Matewan as Police Chief Sid Hatfield
1984 Iceman as Dr. Singe
2008 The Spiderwick Chronicles as Arthur Spiderwick
2007 Steel Toes as Danny Dunkelman
2000 Harrison's Flowers as Harrison Lloyd
1994 The River Wild as Tom Hartman
1995 Home for the Holidays as Russell Terziak
1984 The Brother from Another Planet as Man In Black
2010 Temple Grandin as Professor Carlock
1983 Silkwood as Wesley
1988 Eight Men Out as Eddie Cicotte
2004 Twisted as Dr. Melvin Frank
2006 Heavens Fall as Judge James Horton
1995 Losing Isaiah as Charles Lewin
1986 At Close Range as Tony Pine
2005 Missing in America as Henry R. Hocknell Jr.
1992 Passion Fish as Rennie
2009 The Uninvited as Steven
1988 Call Me as Sam
1993 The Firm as Ray McDeere
1999 Limbo as Joe Gastineau
2006 The Notorious Bettie Page as Estes Kefauver
2002 Lathe of Heaven as Mannie
2006 The Sensation of Sight as Finn
2010 The Tempest as King Alonso
1989 Day One as J. Robert Oppenheimer
1997 In the Gloaming as Martin
2010 Howl as Ralph McIntosh
2007 The Supreme Court as Narrator
2012 The Bourne Legacy as Noah Vosen
1992 Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even as Keith
2003 Blue Car as Auster
2010 The Whistleblower as Peter Ward
1999 The Giraffe as Charles Kaminski
1983 Lovesick as Marvin Zuckerman
2007 Racing Daylight as Henry / Harry
2012 Lincoln as William Seward
2010 Matadors as Roman Lodari
1999 A Map of the World as Howard Goodwin
2008 The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer as J. Robert Oppenheimer
2002 Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story as Jack Hoschouer
1992 O Pioneers! as Carl Linstrum
2001 Relative Evil as Dr. Charlie
2002 Speakeasy as Bruce Hickman
2013 Love, Marilyn as Self
1993 A Dangerous Woman as Getso
2014 Godzilla as Admiral William Stenz
2012 Hemingway & Gellhorn as John Dos Passos
2000 A Good Baby as Truman Lester
1998 The Climb as Earl Himes
2010 Area 51 Declassified as Himself - Narrator
2012 Maladies as Delmar
1996 Beyond the Call as Russel Gates
1997 Song of Hiawatha as Marcel
1983 Enormous Changes at the Last Minute as Jerry
2014 No God, No Master as William Flynn
1993 The American Clock as Young Arthur Huntington
2010 Inside Area 51's Secrets as Narrator
1990 Memphis Belle as Craig Harriman
2001 The Victim as Mark Zingerline
1987 Broken Vows as Stuart Chase
2006 The Shovel as Paul Mullin
1998 Evidence of Blood as Jackson Kinley
2023 Remember This as Jan Karski
2015 Louder Than Bombs as Richard Weissman
1993 Lost in Yonkers as Johnny
2015 The Debt as Nathan
1991 Without Warning: The James Brady Story as Dr. Arthur Kobrine
1988 Stars & Bars as Charlie
2025 A Little Prayer as Bill
2015 The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel as Ty Burley
2007 Trumbo as Self
2003 The Making of ‘Sneakers’ as Self
2006 The Human Behavior Experiments as Narrator
1998 Bad Manners as Wes Westlund
2000 Freedom Song as Peter Crowley
2005 Willa Cather: The Road Is All as Narrator
2026 O Horizon as Warren
1990 Judgment as Father Frank Aubert
1990 Heat Wave as Bill Thomas
2025 The Luckiest Man in America as Bill
2009 The People Speak as Self
1985 When Nature Calls as Weejun
2016 American Pastoral as Nathan Zuckerman
1994 April One as John McCowan
2017 November Criminals as Theo
1980 Return of the Secaucus Seven as Ron
2018 UFO as Franklin Ahls
1998 With Friends Like These as Armand Minetti
2019 Fast Color as Ellis
1998 Simon Birch as Reverend Russell
2017 Darkest Hour as President Roosevelt (voice)
2019 The Devil Has a Name as Fred Stern
2018 An Interview with God as God
2020 Walkaway Joe as Joe Haley
2018 My Dinner with Hervé as Marty Rothstein
2007 Matters of Life and Death as Mr. Jennings
2021 Nomadland as Dave
2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters as Admiral William Stenz
2025 The Gettysburg Address as Ralph Waldo Emerson (voice)
2004 Paradise as Reverend Bobby Paradise
2019 Them That Work as Self
2021 Nightmare Alley as Pete
2020 The Oedipus Project as Messenger 1
1992 A League of Their Own as Ira Lowenstein
1988 Dominick and Eugene as Martin Chernak
2008 Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential' as Self
2008 Sunlight and Shadow: The Visual Style of 'L.A. Confidential' as Self
2022 Where the Crawdads Sing as Tom Milton
2013 Lincoln@Gettysburg as Self - Narrator (voice)
2016 He Does Not Want Peace as Richard Englebright
Soon The Bard
2025 Zootopia 2 as Milton Lynxley (voice)
2025 This Ordinary Thing as Self (voice)
2026 Babies
2026 Stages as Porter Gates
2026 By Any Means
2015 Z: The Beginning of Everything as Judge Anthony Sayre

1999 The Sopranos ( 3 episodes ) as Robert Wegler
1985 Spenser: For Hire ( 1 episode )
2002 Monk ( 1 episode ) as Patrick Kloster
1984 Miami Vice ( 1 episode ) as Marty Lang
1985 The Equalizer ( 1 episode ) as Phillip Borchek
1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame ( 1 episode ) as Carl Linstrum
1987 Wiseguy ( 2 episodes )
2018 McMafia ( 7 episodes ) as Semiyon Kleiman
1953 The Oscars ( 1 episode ) as Self
1949 The Emmy Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self
2011 Alphas ( 24 episodes ) as Lee Rosen
2015 Z: The Beginning of Everything ( 10 episodes ) as Anthony Sayre
2013 The Blacklist ( 12 episodes ) as Peter Kotsiopulos
1987 The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd ( 20 episodes ) as Moss Goodman
2004 House ( 1 episode ) as Nash
2015 The Expanse ( 6 episodes ) as Commander Klaes Ashford
2020 Interrogation ( 10 episodes ) as Henry Fisher
2015 The Expanse ( 7 episodes ) as Klaes Ashford
2024 A Man on the Inside ( 4 episodes ) as Dr. Benjamin Cole
2016 Billions ( 8 episodes ) as Black Jack Foley
2026 CIA ( 1 episode ) as Sanford 'Sandy' Harrison
2001 Big Apple ( 8 episodes ) as Will Preecher
2002 Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story ( 2 episodes ) as Jack Hoschouer
1982 American Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Carl Linstrum
1982 American Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as The Stranger

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