David Strathairn

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David Russell Strathairn (born January 26, 1949) is an American actor. Strathairn rose to fame in the 1980s and 1990s films starring fellow Williams College graduate John Sayles, including Return to the Secaucus 7 (his debut), City of Hope, Eight Men Out, and Limbo.

In Good Night and Good Luck (2005), Strathairn was nominated for an Academy Award for portraying journalist Edward R. Murrow.

He has also been recognized for his role as a CIA deputy director Noah Vosen in the 2007 film The Bourne Ultimatum, which he reprised in 2012's The Bourne Legacy.

He appeared in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln (2012) as Dr. Lee Rosen on the Syfy series Alphas from 2011 to 2012, and as Secretary of State William H. Seward.

For his role in the television film Temple Grandin (2010), he received an Emmy and was nominated for a Golden Globe.

Early life and education

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

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

Personal life

Strathairn narrated a biographical video to introduce Barack Obama ahead of his acceptance address at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

Tay Strathairn was the band's keyboardist.

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Career

In the 2005 biographical film Good Night and Good Luck, Strathairn was nominated for an Academy Award for his dramatic portrayal of CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow. Murrow's film chronicled McCarthy's Communist witch-hunts in the 1950s. Strathairn has since been nominated for Best Actor Golden Globe and Screen Actor Guild (SAG) for his work. In 2010, he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for his role as Dr. Carlock in the HBO television series Temple Grandin. He also received the Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries, or Television Film, and was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries, or Television Film for that role.

In addition, his film appearances include portrayals of the title character in Harrison's Flowers (1990); Whistler, the wisecracking blind techie, in Sneakers (1993); and Patrick St. George, a millionaire involved in the 1950s Los Angeles area. (1997): 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 who has appeared in many independent and Hollywood films as an extrane. He has appeared in Twisted as a psychiatrist; in The River Wild as a husband; and in Blue Car as a tutor.

He has worked with Williams College classmate and director John Sayles. In Return of the Secaucus 7 (1978), he made his film debut in Return of the Secaucus 7 and appeared in the films Passion Fish, Matewan, Limbo, and City of Hope, for which he received the Independent Spirit Award. In the 1983 film "The Brother from Another Planet," Alongside Sayles, he was one of the "man in black" from Another Planet. Edwin Booth was created by Strathairn in Booth's workshop performance. W. Stuart McDowell of The Players in New York City divides a House Divided.

Strathairn's television appearances include a variety 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 version of The Miracle Worker; Capt. In Son of the Morning Star, Frederick Benteen, a U.S. 7th Cavalry officer under GM Custer's command, as well as a far-out televangelist, a far-out (both literally and literally) televangelist in Paradise, and the pilot episode of a TV series on Showtime that was not well received. Strathairn appeared on the hit television show The Sopranos as a regular character. Strathairn appeared in "Out Where the Buses Don't Run" in Miami, a satirefaction with the Miami Vice series "Out Where the Buses Don't Run" by a Strathairn.

Strathairn appeared in We Are Marshall, a 2006 film about Marshall University's football program after the 1970 plane crash that killed the majority of the team's survivors; and Cold Souls, starring Paul Giamatti as a fictionalized version of himself, directed by Sophie Barthes. He produced an ad for then-legitimate Kirsten Gillibrand, then senator (now Senator) Kirsten Gillibrand in 2006. In a speech similar to Good Night and Good Luck, Edward R. Murrow resurfaced as Edward R. Murrow, but the phrase was changed to reference Gillibrand's adversary John Sweeney.

Strathairn appears in the 2007 independent film Steel Toes, a film directed/co-producer) and Mark Adam (co-director/DOP/editor). The film is based on Gow's stage play Cherry Docs, in which Strathairn appeared in the city's American premiere at the Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia.

Arthur Spiderwick appeared in Paramount Pictures' children's film The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008) as Arthur Spiderwick. Strathairn appeared in The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a biography of the physicist, as part of the American Experience PBS anthology series documentary The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer. In 1989 CBS television film Day One, he appeared in Oppenheimer for the first time. In No God, No Master, William Flynn portrays an FBI agent struggling with anarchism in 1920s New York City.

Strathairn appeared in The People Speak, a documentary feature film that focuses on the lives, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans. It was based on Howard Zinn's book "People's History of the United States."

On Syfy's Alphas, he appeared as Dr. Lee Rosen.

Strathairn appeared on the third and fourth seasons of SyFy's The Expanse from 2018-19 as Klaes Ashford.

Strathairn appears in the forthcoming film Remember This, based on the stage play about a Polish diplomat and war hero Jan Karski. Eva Anisko and Jeff Hutchens and Derek Goldman produce the film.

Strathairn was one of the few authentic characters in Chloé Zhao's Oscar-winning film "Nomadland" in 2020, directed by Chloé Zhao. David and his son Tay appear together on screen for the first time since 1988's "Eight Men Out" when Tay was only eight years old.

Strathairn is also a stage actor and has appeared in over 30 theatre productions. Harold Pinter had him in many roles in stage plays. Pinter's 1957 play The Birthday Party, directed by Carey Perloff (since 1992; Pinter's second CSC Rep production of The Birthday Party; and Devlin, opposite Lindsay Duncan's Rebecca in Pinter's 1996 New York premiere by the Roundabout Theatre Company;

Strathairn appeared in Anton Chekov's The Cherry Orchard with Mary McDonnell at People's Light Theater in Malvern, Pennsylvania, in 2015. In October 2020, he lent his voice talents to a revival of Sinclair Lewis' "I Can't Happen Here" by the Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

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

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