
David Strathairn
Born January 26, 1949 · San Francisco, California, USA
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).
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We Are Marshall

Hemingway & Gellhorn

November Criminals

American Pastoral

The Whistleblower

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Dolores Claiborne

Good Night, and Good Luck.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

At Close Range

Temple Grandin

Twisted

Louder Than Bombs

My Blueberry Nights

The Notorious Bettie Page

Memphis Belle

Losing Isaiah

Eight Men Out

An Interview with God

The Tempest

The Luckiest Man in America

Simon Birch

The Brother from Another Planet

Home for the Holidays

UFO

The Miracle Worker

Love, Marilyn

My Dinner with Hervé

Iceman

Fast Color

The Devil Has a Name

A Map of the World

Harrison's Flowers

Walkaway Joe

Matewan

Howl

Passion Fish

Silkwood

In the Gloaming

Stages

Call Me

Cold Souls

The People Speak

Without Warning: The James Brady Story

Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even

Bob Roberts

This Ordinary Thing

Z: The Beginning of Everything

With Friends Like These

A Dangerous Woman

Mother Night

No God, No Master

City of Hope

Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story

Limbo

Heavens Fall

The Gettysburg Address

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

Return of the Secaucus Seven

Stars & Bars

Evidence of Blood

Beyond the Call

Trumbo

The Making of ‘Sneakers’

Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential'

The Oedipus Project

The Sensation of Sight

Missing in America

The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer

The American Clock

Lovesick

Dominick and Eugene

Heat Wave

The Giraffe

Song of Hiawatha

April One

Lincoln@Gettysburg

The Victim

He Does Not Want Peace

Freedom Song

Lathe of Heaven

Lost in Yonkers

Broken Vows

A Little Prayer

Bad Manners

Paradise

O Pioneers!

Judgment

Blue Car

Remember This

Babies

Day One

Speakeasy

The Debt

Steel Toes

The Climb

Matters of Life and Death

The Human Behavior Experiments

O Horizon

Maladies

Relative Evil

Racing Daylight

The Feud

Willa Cather: The Road Is All

Them That Work

Area 51 Declassified

When Nature Calls

Inside Area 51's Secrets

A Good Baby










































