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David Russell Strathairn (/strəˈθɛərn/;[1] born January 26, 1949) is an American actor. Known for his leading roles on stage and screen, he has often portrayed historical figures such as Edward R. Murrow, J. Robert Oppenheimer, William H. Seward, and John Dos Passos. He has received various accolades including an Independent Spirit Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Volpi Cup, and has been nominated for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards.

David Strathairn
Strathairn at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con
Born	David Russell Strathairn (1949-01-26) January 26, 1949 (age 73) San Francisco, California, U.S.
Alma mater	Williams College
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1979–present
Spouse	Logan Goodman ​ (m. 1980)​
Children	2

Strathairn made his acting debut in his fellow Williams College graduate John Sayles' film Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980). He continued acting in films such as Matewan (1987), Eight Men Out (1988), City of Hope (1991), A League of Their Own (1992), Sneakers (1992), Passion Fish (1992), The Firm (1993), The River Wild (1995), L.A. Confidential (1997), and Limbo (1999). Strathairn gained prominence for his portrayal as journalist Edward R. Murrow in George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. He is also recognized for his role as CIA Deputy Director Noah Vosen in The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), and The Bourne Legacy (2012). He appeared in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln (2012), Chloe Zhao's Nomadland (2020), and Guillermo Del Toro's Nightmare Alley (2021).

Also known for his lengthy work on television, he made his debut in the soap opera Search for Tomorrow in 1984. He portrayed Robert Wegler in the acclaimed HBO drama series The Sopranos (2004). He received a Primetime Emmy Award win and a Golden Globe Award nomination for his performance in the HBO television film Temple Grandin (2010). He portrayed John Dos Passos in the HBO film Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012). He's had recurring roles in the Syfy series Alphas (2011-2012), the NBC series The Blacklist (2015-2016), and the Showtime series Billions (2017-2019).

Early life and education

Strathairn was born in San Francisco, California, the second of three children of Thomas Scott Strathairn, Jr., a physician, and Mary Frances (née Frazier), a nurse.[2][3][4] He is of Scottish descent through his paternal grandfather, Thomas Scott Strathairn, a native of Crieff, and of Native Hawaiian ancestry through his paternal grandmother, Josephine Lei Victoria Alana.[5][6][7] Strathairn attended Redwood High School in Larkspur, California, and graduated from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, in 1970. At Williams, he met fellow actor Gordon Clapp and director John Sayles, with whom he has collaborated on a number of projects.

He studied clowning at the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College in Venice, Florida,[8] and briefly worked as a clown in a traveling circus.[9]

Career

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Strathairn was nominated for an Academy Award for his stirring portrayal of CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow in the 2005 biographical film Good Night, and Good Luck. The film explored Murrow's clash with Senator Joseph McCarthy over McCarthy's Communist witch-hunts in the 1950s. Strathairn also received Best Actor Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild (SAG) nominations for his performance. In 2010, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for his portrayal of Dr. Carlock in the HBO television film Temple Grandin. For that role, he also won the Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film.

Other notable film roles include his portrayals of the title character in Harrison's Flowers (2000); Col. Craig Harrington in Memphis Belle (1990); Whistler, the wisecracking blind techie, in Sneakers (1992); convict Ray McDeere in the legal thriller The Firm (1993); abusive husband Joe St. George in Dolores Claiborne (1995); Pierce Patchett, a millionaire involved in the seedy side of 1950s Los Angeles in L.A. Confidential (1997); Theseus, Duke of Athens, in the 1999 version of A Midsummer Night's Dream; and baseball player Eddie Cicotte in Eight Men Out (1988).

Strathairn is a character actor, appearing in supporting roles in many independent and Hollywood films. In this capacity, he has co-starred in Twisted as a psychiatrist; in The River Wild as a husband; and in Blue Car as a teacher.

He has worked with his Williams College classmate and director John Sayles. He made his film debut in Return of the Secaucus 7, and worked in the films Passion Fish, Matewan, Limbo and City of Hope, for which he won the Independent Spirit Award. Alongside Sayles, he played one of the "men in black" in the 1983 film The Brother from Another Planet. Strathairn created the role of Edwin Booth with Maryann Plunkett in a workshop production of Booth! A House Divided, by W. Stuart McDowell, at The Players in New York City.[10]

Strathairn's television work also includes a wide range of roles: Moss, the bookselling nebbish on the critically acclaimed The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd; Captain Keller, the father of Helen Keller in the 2000 remake of The Miracle Worker; Capt. Frederick Benteen, a U.S. 7th Cavalry officer under General Custer's command in Son of the Morning Star; and a far-out (both figuratively and literally) televangelist in Paradise, the pilot episode for a TV series on Showtime that was not successful. Strathairn had a recurring role on the hit television drama The Sopranos. Strathairn starred in the Miami Vice episode "Out Where the Buses Don't Run."

Strathairn appeared in We Are Marshall, a 2006 film about the rebirth of Marshall University's football program after the 1970 plane crash that killed most of the team's members; and Cold Souls, starring Paul Giamatti as a fictionalized version of himself, who enlists a company's services to deep freeze his soul, directed by Sophie Barthes. In 2006 he did a campaign ad for then congressional candidate (now Senator) Kirsten Gillibrand. He reprised his role as Edward R. Murrow in a speech similar to the one from Good Night, and Good Luck, but was altered to reference Gillibrand's opponent John Sweeney.[11]

Strathairn plays the lead role in the 2007 independent film, Steel Toes, a film by David Gow (writer/co-director/producer) and Mark Adam (co-director/DOP/editor). The film is based on Gow's stage play Cherry Docs, in which Strathairn starred for its American premiere at the Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia.

He played a role in Paramount Pictures' children's film The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008) as Arthur Spiderwick. Strathairn appeared in the American Experience PBS anthology series documentary, The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a biography of the physicist. He first played Oppenheimer in the 1989 CBS TV movie Day One. He plays William Flynn, an FBI agent dealing with anarchism in 1920s New York City, in No God, No Master.

In 2009, Strathairn performed in The People Speak, a documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans. It was adapted from the historian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States.[12]

He starred as Dr. Lee Rosen on Syfy's series Alphas.[13]

In 2018-19, Strathairn appeared on the third and fourth seasons of SyFy's The Expanse[14][15] as Klaes Ashford.

Strathairn stars in the upcoming film Remember This, based on the stage play about the life of a Polish diplomat and war hero Jan Karski. The film is executive-produced by Eva Anisko and directed by Jeff Hutchens and Derek Goldman.

In 2020, Strathairn was one of the few genuine actors in the Oscar-winner "Nomadland", directed by Chloé Zhao. David appears alongside his son Tay, the first time they have acted together on screen since 1988's "Eight Men Out" when Tay was just eight years old.

Theater

Strathairn is also a stage actor and has performed over 30 theatrical roles. He performed several roles in stage plays by Harold Pinter. He played Stanley in two consecutive New York Classic Stage Company (CSC) productions of Pinter's 1957 play The Birthday Party, directed by Carey Perloff (since 1992 artistic director of the American Conservatory Theater), in 1988[16] and 1989;[17] the dual roles of prison Officer and Prisoner in Pinter's 1989 play Mountain Language (in a double bill with the second CSC Rep production of The Birthday Party);[18] Edwin Booth in a workshop production by W. Stuart McDowell at The Players in 1989; Kerner, in Tom Stoppard's Hapgood (1994); and Devlin, opposite Lindsay Duncan's Rebecca, in Pinter's 1996 two-hander Ashes to Ashes in the 1999 New York premiere by the Roundabout Theatre Company.[2][19]

In 2015 Strathairn appeared in Anton Chekov's The Cherry Orchard with Mary McDonnell at People's Light theater in Malvern, Pennsylvania.[20][21] He lent his voice talents to an adaptation in the form of a radio play of Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here by the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in October 2020.[22]

Strathairn plays Jan Karski in the one-man play Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski, written by Clark Young and Derek Goldman. The play is an original production by The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown University. In 2021, Strathairn garnered critical acclaim for a production of Remember This at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater[23]

Personal life

Strathairn narrated a biographical video to introduce Barack Obama before his acceptance speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.[24]

Strathairn's son Tay Strathairn was keyboardist for the band Dawes.[25][26]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1980	Return of the Secaucus 7	Ron Desjardins
1983	Lovesick	Marvin Zuckerman
1983	Silkwood	Wesley
1984	Iceman	Dr. Singe
1984	The Brother from Another Planet	Man in Black
1985	When Nature Calls	Weejun
1986	At Close Range	Tony Pine
1987	Matewan	Police Chief Sid Hatfield
1988	Stars and Bars	Charlie
1988	Call Me	Sam
1988	Eight Men Out	Eddie Cicotte
1988	Dominick and Eugene	Martin Chernak
1989	The Feud	The Stranger
1990	Memphis Belle	Colonel Craig Harriman
1990	Judgment	Father Frank Aubert
1991	City of Hope	Asteroid
1992	Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even	Keith Powers
1992	A League of Their Own	Ira Lowenstein
1992	Bob Roberts	Mack Laflin
1992	Sneakers	Erwin 'Whistler' Emory
1992	Passion Fish	Rennie
1993	Lost in Yonkers	Johnny
1993	The Firm	Ray McDeere
1993	A Dangerous Woman	Getso
1994	The River Wild	Tom Hartman
1995	Losing Isaiah	Charles Lewin
1995	Dolores Claiborne	Joe St. George
1995	Home for the Holidays	Russell Terziak
1996	Mother Night	Lieutenant Bernard B. O'Hare
1997	Song of Hiawatha	Marcel
1997	L.A. Confidential	Pierce Morehouse Patchett
1997	Bad Manners	Wes Westlund
1998	The Climb	Earl Himes
1998	With Friends Like These...	Armand Minetti
1998	Simon Birch	Reverend Russell
1998	Meschugge	Charles Kaminski
1998	Evidence of Blood	Jackson Kinley
1999	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Theseus
1999	Limbo	"Jumpin Joe" Gastineau
1999	A Map of the World	Howard Goodwin
2000	A Good Baby	Truman Lester
2000	Harrison's Flowers	Harrison Lloyd
2001	Relative Evil	Dr. Charlie	a.k.a. Ball in the House
2002	Speakeasy	Bruce Hickman
2002	Blue Car	Auster
2004	Twisted	Melvin Frank
2005	The Notorious Bettie Page	Estes Kefauver
2005	Missing in America	Henry
2005	Good Night, and Good Luck	Edward R. Murrow
2006	The Shovel	Paul Mullin	Short film
2006	Heavens Fall	Judge James Horton
2006	We Are Marshall	Donald Dedmon
2007	The Sensation of Sight	Finn	Also producer
2007	Steel Toes	Danny Dunckelman
2007	Fracture	District Attorney Joe Lobruto
2007	Racing Daylight	Henry Becker/Harry Stokes
2007	The Bourne Ultimatum	Noah Vosen
2007	My Blueberry Nights	Arnie Copeland
2007	Matters of Life and Death	Mr. Jennings
2007	Trumbo	Readings
2008	The Spiderwick Chronicles	Arthur Spiderwick
2009	The Uninvited	Steven Ivers
2009	Cold Souls	Dr. Flintstein
2009	The People Speak	Himself	Documentary
2009	Odysseus in America	Narration
2010	Howl	Ralph McIntosh
2010	The Tempest	Alonzo, King of Naples
2010	The Whistleblower	Peter Ward
2012	The Bourne Legacy	Noah Vosen
2012	No God, No Master	William J. Flynn
2012	Lincoln	William Seward
2014	Godzilla	Admiral William Stenz
2015	The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel	Ty Burley
2015	Louder Than Bombs	Richard
2015	The Debt	Nathan
2016	American Pastoral	Nathan Zuckerman
2017	Darkest Hour	Franklin D. Roosevelt (voice)
2017	November Criminals	Theo Schacht
2018	An Interview with God[27]	God
2018	Fast Color	Ellis
2018	UFO	Franklin Ahls
2019	Godzilla: King of the Monsters	Admiral William Stenz
2019	The Devil Has a Name	Fred Stern
2020	Walkaway Joe	Joe Haley
2020	Nomadland	David
2021	Nightmare Alley	Pete Krumbein
2022	Where the Crawdads Sing	Tom Milton
TBA	The Gettysburg Address	Ralph Waldo Emerson (voice)	Documentary; post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	Search for Tomorrow	Dr. Robert Hand	4 episodes
1985	Miami Vice	Marty Lang	Episode: "Out Where the Buses Don't Run"
1987	Broken Vows	Stuart Chase	Television movie
1987	Spenser: For Hire	Doggie Thorpe	Episode: "One for my Daughter"
1988	The Equalizer	Phillip Borchek	Episode: "Sea of Fire"
1988–91	The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd	Moss Goodman	20 episodes
1989	Wiseguy	Matthew Stemkowsky	4 episodes
1989	Day One	J. Robert Oppenheimer	Television movie
1990	Heat Wave	Bill Thomas	Television movie
1990	Judgment	Father Frank Aubert	Television movie
1991	Son of the Morning Star	Capt. Frederick W. Benteen	Television movie
1991	Without Warning: The James Brady Story	Doctor Art Kobrine	Television movie
1992	O Pioneers!	Carl Linstrum	Television movie
1994	April One	John McCowan	Television movie
1996	Beyond the Call	Russell Cates	Television movie
1997	In the Gloaming	Martin	Television movie
1998	Evidence of Blood	Jackson Kinley	Television movie
2000	Freedom Song	Peter Crowley	Television film
2000	The Miracle Worker	Captain Keller	Television film
2001	Big Apple	FBI Agent Will Preecher	8 episodes
2002	Lathe of Heaven	Mannie	Television movie
2002	Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story	Jack Hoschouer	Television movie
2004	The Sopranos	Robert Wegler	3 episodes
2004	Paradise	Reverend Bobby Paradise	Television movie
2008	The Trials of Oppenheimer	J. Robert Oppenheimer	BBC drama-documentary
2008	Monk	Patrick Kloster	Episode: "Mr. Monk and the Genius"
2010	Temple Grandin	Dr. Carlock	HBO Television movie
2010	House	Nash	Episode: "Lockdown"
2011–12	Alphas	Dr. Lee Rosen	24 episodes
2012	Hemingway & Gellhorn	John Dos Passos	HBO Television movie
2015–16	The Blacklist	Peter Kotsiopulos (aka The Director)	12 episodes
2015–17	Z: The Beginning of Everything	Judge Anthony Sayre	5 episodes
2015	Axe Cop	Extincter	Voice Episode: "Night Mission: The Extincter"
2017–19	Billions	"Black Jack" Foley	8 episodes
2018	McMafia	Semiyon Kleiman[28]	Miniseries; 7 episodes
2018–19	The Expanse	Klaes Ashford	13 episodes
2018	My Dinner with Hervé	Marty Rothstein	Television movie
2020	Interrogation	Henry Fisher	10 episodes

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Playwright	Venue
1981	Einstein and the Polar Bear	Bobby Bullins	Tom Griffin	Cort Theatre, Broadway debut
1997	The Three Sisters	Vershinin	Anton Chekov	Roundabout Theatre Company, Broadway
2001	Dance of Death	Kurt	August Strindberg	Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway
2003	Salome	Jokanaan	Oscar Wilde	Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway
2012	The Heiress	Dr. Austin Sloper	Augustus & Ruth Goetz	Walter Kerr Theater, Broadway

Music videos

Year	Title	Artist	Notes
2018	"Oh Baby"	LCD Soundsystem

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Title	Ref.
1991	Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male	City of Hope	Won
1992	Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male	Passion Fish	Nominated
1997	Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture	L.A. Confidential	Nominated
1997	CableACE Award for Guest Actor in a Dramatic Special or Series	In the Gloaming	Won
1999	Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead	Limbo	Nominated
2005	Volpi Cup for Best Actor	Good Night, and Good Luck	Won
	Academy Award for Best Actor		Nominated
	BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role		Nominated
	Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor		Nominated
	Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast		Nominated
	Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor		Nominated
	Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama		Nominated
	Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead		Nominated
	Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama		Nominated
	Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture		Nominated
	Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role		Nominated
2010	Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film	Temple Grandin	Nominated
	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie		Won
2012	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie	Hemingway & Gellhorn	Nominated
2012	Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture	Lincoln	Nominated
2020	AACTA International Award for Best Supporting Actor	Nomadland	Nominated
	Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture		Nominated
	Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor		Nominated
	San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor		Nominated

References

External links

• David Strathairn at IMDb
• David Strathairn at the Internet Broadway Database

На других языках

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[es] David Strathairn

David Russell Strathairn (San Francisco, 26 de enero de 1949) es un actor estadounidense de cine, televisión y teatro. Por su trabajo ha sido candidato al premio Óscar.

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[ru] Стрэтэйрн, Дэвид

Дэ́вид Ра́сселл Стрэ́тэйрн (англ. David Russell Strathairn; род. 26 января 1949, Сан-Франциско, Калифорния, США) — американский актёр. Лауреат премии «Эмми».

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