David Strathairn

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 (2
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Personal Info

Id

11064

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

4

Gender

Male

Birthday

1949-01-26

Place of Birth

San Francisco, California, USA

Also Known As

  • David Russell Strathairn
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    Known For

    The Miracle Worker

    The Miracle

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    The Feud

    L.A. Confidential

    L.A. Confide

    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    A Midsummer

    City of Hope

    City of Hope

    Sneakers

    Sneakers

    Mother Night

    Mother Night

    Good Night, and Good Luck.

    Good Night,

    Bob Roberts

    Bob Roberts

    The Bourne Ultimatum

    The Bourne U

    My Blueberry Nights

    My Blueberry

    We Are Marshall

    We Are Marsh

    Cold Souls

    Cold Souls

    Fracture

    Fracture

    Dolores Claiborne

    Dolores Clai

    Matewan

    Matewan

    Iceman

    Iceman

    The Spiderwick Chronicles

    The Spiderwi

    Steel Toes

    Steel Toes

    Harrison's Flowers

    Harrison's F

    The River Wild

    The River Wi

    Home for the Holidays

    Home for the

    The Brother from Another Planet

    The Brother

    Temple Grandin

    Temple Grand

    Silkwood

    Silkwood

    Eight Men Out

    Eight Men Ou

    Twisted

    Twisted

    Heavens Fall

    Heavens Fall

    Losing Isaiah

    Losing Isaia

    At Close Range

    At Close Ran

    Missing in America

    Missing in A

    Passion Fish

    Passion Fish

    The Uninvited

    The Uninvite

    Call Me

    Call Me

    The Firm

    The Firm

    Limbo

    Limbo

    The Notorious Bettie Page

    The Notoriou

    Lathe of Heaven

    Lathe of Hea

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    The Sensatio

    The Tempest

    The Tempest

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    Day One

    In the Gloaming

    In the Gloam

    Howl

    Howl

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    The Supreme

    The Bourne Legacy

    The Bourne L

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

    Big Girls Do

    Blue Car

    Blue Car

    The Whistleblower

    The Whistleb

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    The Giraffe

    Lovesick

    Lovesick

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    Racing Dayli

    Los Angeles Plays Itself

    Los Angeles

    Lincoln

    Lincoln

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    Matadors

    A Map of the World

    A Map of the

    The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer

    The Trials o

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    Master Spy:

    O Pioneers!

    O Pioneers!

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    Relative Evi

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    Speakeasy

    Love, Marilyn

    Love, Marily

    A Dangerous Woman

    A Dangerous

    Godzilla

    Godzilla

    Hemingway & Gellhorn

    Hemingway &

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    A Good Baby

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    The Climb

    Area 51 Declassified

    Area 51 Decl

    Maladies

    Maladies

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    Beyond the C

    Song of Hiawatha

    Song of Hiaw

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    Enormous Cha

    No God, No Master

    No God, No M

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    The American

    Memphis Belle

    Memphis Bell

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    The Victim

    Broken Vows

    Broken Vows

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    Evidence of

    Remember This

    Remember Thi

    Louder Than Bombs

    Louder Than

    Lost in Yonkers

    Lost in Yonk

    The Debt

    The Debt

    Without Warning: The James Brady Story

    Without Warn

    Stars & Bars

    Stars & Bars

    A Little Prayer

    A Little Pra

    The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

    The Second B

    Trumbo

    Trumbo

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    The Making o

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    The Human Be

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    Bad Manners

    Freedom Song

    Freedom Song

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    O Horizon

    Judgment

    Judgment

    Heat Wave

    Heat Wave

    The Luckiest Man in America

    The Luckiest

    The People Speak

    The People S

    When Nature Calls

    When Nature

    American Pastoral

    American Pas

    April One

    April One

    November Criminals

    November Cri

    Return of the Secaucus Seven

    Return of th

    UFO

    UFO

    With Friends Like These

    With Friends

    Fast Color

    Fast Color

    Simon Birch

    Simon Birch

    Darkest Hour

    Darkest Hour

    The Devil Has a Name

    The Devil Ha

    An Interview with God

    An Interview

    Walkaway Joe

    Walkaway Joe

    My Dinner with Hervé

    My Dinner wi

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    Matters of L

    Nomadland

    Nomadland

    Godzilla: King of the Monsters

    Godzilla: Ki

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    The Gettysbu

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    Paradise

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    Them That Wo

    Nightmare Alley

    Nightmare Al

    The Oedipus Project

    The Oedipus

    A League of Their Own

    A League of

    Dominick and Eugene

    Dominick and

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    Whatever You

    Where the Crawdads Sing

    Where the Cr

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    Lincoln@Gett

    He Does Not Want Peace

    He Does Not

    Zootopia 2

    Zootopia 2

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    This Ordinar

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    By Any Means

    as

    2025

    This Ordinary Thing

    asSelf (voice)

    2025

    Zootopia 2

    asMilton Lynxley (voice)

    2025

    The Gettysburg Address

    asRalph Waldo Emerson (voice)

    2025

    A Little Prayer

    asBill

    2025

    The Luckiest Man in America

    asBill

    2025

    O Horizon

    asWarren

    2023

    Remember This

    asJan Karski

    2022

    Where the Crawdads Sing

    asTom Milton

    2021

    Nightmare Alley

    asPete

    2021

    Nomadland

    asDave

    2020

    The Oedipus Project

    asMessenger 1

    2020

    Walkaway Joe

    asJoe Haley

    2019

    Them That Work

    asSelf

    2019

    The Devil Has a Name

    asFred Stern

    2019

    Godzilla: King of the Monsters

    asAdmiral William Stenz

    2019

    Fast Color

    asEllis

    2018

    My Dinner with Hervé

    asMarty Rothstein

    2018

    UFO

    asFranklin Ahls

    2018

    An Interview with God

    asGod

    2017

    Darkest Hour

    asPresident Roosevelt (voice)

    2017

    November Criminals

    asTheo

    2016

    American Pastoral

    asNathan Zuckerman

    2016

    He Does Not Want Peace

    asRichard Englebright

    2015

    Louder Than Bombs

    asRichard Weissman

    2015

    The Debt

    asNathan

    2015

    The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

    asTy Burley

    2014

    Godzilla

    asAdmiral William Stenz

    2014

    No God, No Master

    asWilliam Flynn

    2013

    Lincoln@Gettysburg

    asNarrator (voice)

    2013

    Love, Marilyn

    asSelf

    2012

    Lincoln

    asWilliam Seward

    2012

    Hemingway & Gellhorn

    asJohn Dos Passos

    2012

    The Bourne Legacy

    asNoah Vosen

    2012

    Maladies

    asDelmar

    2010

    The Whistleblower

    asPeter Ward

    2010

    The Tempest

    asKing Alonso

    2010

    Howl

    asRalph McIntosh

    2010

    Inside Area 51's Secrets

    asNarrator

    2010

    Area 51 Declassified

    asHimself - Narrator

    2010

    Temple Grandin

    asProfessor Carlock

    2010

    Matadors

    asRoman Lodari

    2009

    The People Speak

    asSelf

    2009

    Cold Souls

    asDr. Flintstein

    2009

    The Uninvited

    asSteven

    2008

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

    asSelf

    2008

    Sunlight and Shadow: The Visual Style of 'L.A. Confidential'

    asSelf

    2008

    The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer

    asJ. Robert Oppenheimer

    2008

    The Spiderwick Chronicles

    asArthur Spiderwick

    2007

    My Blueberry Nights

    asArnie

    2007

    Trumbo

    asSelf

    2007

    Matters of Life and Death

    asMr. Jennings

    2007

    The Bourne Ultimatum

    asNoah Vosen

    2007

    Racing Daylight

    asHenry / Harry

    2007

    Steel Toes

    asDanny Dunkelman

    2007

    Fracture

    asJoe Lobruto

    2007

    The Supreme Court

    asNarrator

    2006

    We Are Marshall

    asPresident Dedmon

    2006

    The Sensation of Sight

    asFinn

    2006

    Heavens Fall

    asJudge James Horton

    2006

    The Human Behavior Experiments

    asNarrator

    2006

    The Shovel

    asPaul Mullin

    2005

    Good Night, and Good Luck.

    asEdward R. Murrow

    2005

    The Notorious Bettie Page

    asEstes Kefauver

    2005

    Willa Cather: The Road Is All

    asNarrator

    2005

    Missing in America

    asHenry R. Hocknell Jr.

    2004

    Los Angeles Plays Itself

    asPierce Patchett in L.A. Confidential (archive footage)

    2004

    Twisted

    asDr. Melvin Frank

    2004

    Paradise

    asReverend Bobby Paradise

    2003

    The Making of ‘Sneakers’

    asSelf

    2003

    Blue Car

    asAuster

    2002

    Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story

    asJack Hoschouer

    2002

    Lathe of Heaven

    asMannie

    2002

    Speakeasy

    asBruce Hickman

    2001

    Relative Evil

    asDr. Charlie

    2001

    The Victim

    asMark Zingerline

    2000

    A Good Baby

    asTruman Lester

    2000

    The Miracle Worker

    asCaptain Keller

    2000

    Harrison's Flowers

    asHarrison Lloyd

    2000

    Freedom Song

    asPeter Crowley

    1999

    A Map of the World

    asHoward Goodwin

    1999

    Limbo

    asJoe Gastineau

    1999

    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    asTheseus

    1998

    Bad Manners

    asWes Westlund

    1998

    The Giraffe

    asCharles Kaminski

    1998

    Simon Birch

    asRev. Russell

    1998

    With Friends Like These

    asArmand Minetti

    1998

    Evidence of Blood

    asJackson Kinley

    1998

    The Climb

    asEarl Himes

    1997

    L.A. Confidential

    asPierce Patchett

    1997

    Song of Hiawatha

    asMarcel

    1997

    In the Gloaming

    asMartin

    1996

    Mother Night

    asBernard B. O'Hare

    1996

    Beyond the Call

    asRussel Gates

    1995

    Home for the Holidays

    asRussell Terziak

    1995

    Dolores Claiborne

    asJoe St. George

    1995

    Losing Isaiah

    asCharles Lewin

    1994

    The River Wild

    asTom Hartman

    1994

    April One

    asJohn McCowan

    1993

    A Dangerous Woman

    asGetso

    1993

    The Firm

    asRay McDeere

    1993

    Lost in Yonkers

    asJohnny

    1993

    The American Clock

    asYoung Arthur Huntington

    1992

    Passion Fish

    asRennie

    1992

    Sneakers

    asWhistler

    1992

    Bob Roberts

    asMack Laflin

    1992

    A League of Their Own

    asIra Lowenstein

    1992

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

    asKeith

    1992

    O Pioneers!

    asCarl Linstrum

    1991

    City of Hope

    asAsteroid

    1991

    Without Warning: The James Brady Story

    asDr. Arthur Kobrine

    1990

    Judgment

    asFather Frank Aubert

    1990

    Memphis Belle

    asCraig Harriman

    1990

    Heat Wave

    asBill Thomas

    1989

    The Feud

    asThe Stranger

    1989

    Day One

    asJ. Robert Oppenheimer

    1988

    Eight Men Out

    asEddie Cicotte

    1988

    Call Me

    asSam

    1988

    Stars & Bars

    asCharlie

    1988

    Dominick and Eugene

    asMartin Chernak

    1987

    Matewan

    asPolice Chief Sid Hatfield

    1987

    Broken Vows

    asStuart Chase

    1986

    At Close Range

    asTony Pine

    1985

    When Nature Calls

    asWeejun

    1984

    The Brother from Another Planet

    asMan In Black

    1984

    Iceman

    asDr. Singe

    1983

    Silkwood

    asWesley

    1983

    Lovesick

    asMarvin Zuckerman

    1983

    Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

    asJerry

    1980

    Return of the Secaucus Seven

    asRon

    The Bard

    as

    Babies

    as

    Coming Soon

    (3 episode)asRobert Wegler

    Coming Soon

    (1 episode)as

    Coming Soon

    (1 episode)asPatrick Kloster

    Coming Soon

    (1 episode)asMarty Lang

    Coming Soon

    (1 episode)asPhillip Borchek

    Coming Soon

    (1 episode)asCarl Linstrum

    Coming Soon

    (2 episode)as

    Coming Soon

    (7 episode)asSemiyon Kleiman

    Coming Soon

    (1 episode)asSelf

    Coming Soon

    (1 episode)asSelf

    Coming Soon

    (24 episode)asLee Rosen

    Coming Soon

    (10 episode)asAnthony Sayre

    Coming Soon

    (12 episode)asPeter Kotsiopulos

    Coming Soon

    (20 episode)asMoss Goodman

    Coming Soon

    (1 episode)asNash

    Coming Soon

    (6 episode)asCommander Klaes Ashford

    Coming Soon

    (10 episode)asHenry Fisher

    Coming Soon

    (7 episode)asKlaes Ashford

    Coming Soon

    (4 episode)asDr. Benjamin Cole