David Strathairn
Movies
- A Dangerous Woman (1993)
- A Good Baby (1998)
- A League of Their Own (1992)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)
- A Tale of Two Sisters (2008)
- Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even (1992)
- Blue Car (2003)
- Bob Roberts (1992)
- Bourne
- Challenger (2007)
- City of Hope (1991)
- Cold Souls (2009)
- Day One (1989)
- Eight Men Out (1988)
- Fracture (2007)
- Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)
- Harrison's Flowers (2000)
- Harrison's Flowers (2000)
- Heat Wave (1990)
- Heaven's Fall (2006)
- Heavens Fall (2006)
- Howl (2010)
- Iceman (1984)
- In the Gloaming (1997)
- Judgement HBO (1990)
- L.A. Confidential (1997)
- Lathe of Heaven (2002)
- Limbo (1999)
- Losing Isaiah (1995)
- Lost in Yonkers (1993)
- Matewan (1987)
- Matters of Life and Death (2007)
- Memphis Belle (1990)
- My Blueberry Nights (2008)
- O Pioneers! (1992)
- Passion Fish (1992)
- Relative Evil (2004)
- Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980)
- Silkwood (1983)
- Sneakers (1992)
- Son of the Morning Star (1991)
- Speakeasy (2002)
- Steel Toes (2006)
- The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
- The Brother from Another Planet (1984)
- The Climb (1999)
- The Firm (1993)
- The Miracle Worker (2000)
- The Notorious Bettie Page (2006)
- The River Wild (1994)
- The Sensation of Sight (2006)
- The Song of Hiawatha (1997)
- The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)
- The Tempest (2010)
- The Uninvited (2009)
- The Whistleblower (2010)
- Twisted (2004)
- We Are Marshall (2006)
- When Nature Calls (1985)
David Russell Strathairn (born January 26, 1949) is an American actor. Strathairn was born in San Francisco, California, the son of a physician. 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, Lei. Strathairn attended Redwood High School in Larkspur, California and graduated from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts in 1970. 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. Strathairn was Academy Award-nominated for his portrayal of CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow in the biopic Good Night, and Good Luck, which explored Murrow's clash with Senator Joseph McCarthy over McCarthy's Communist "witch-hunt" in the 1950s. Strathairn received Best Actor Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild (SAG), and Academy Award nominations for his performance. Other notable film roles include his portrayals of the title character in Harrison's Flowers (2000); the wisecracking blind techie in Sneakers (1992); Joe St. George in Dolores Claiborne (1995); Theseus, Duke of Athens, in
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