David Strathairn

ACTOR, PRODUCER, SOUNDTRACK

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David Russell Strathairn was born on January 26, 1949 in San Francisco, California. He is the son of Mary Frances (Frazier), a nurse, and Thomas Scott Strathairn, Jr., a physician. He has two siblings, Tom and Anne. His ancestry includes English, Scottish, Irish, Portuguese, Native Hawaiian, and one sixteenth Chinese (the latter three from his paternal grandmother).Strathairn attended Williams College, where he demonstrated great interest in the theatre, and first befriended John Sayles, with whom he would later frequently collaborate. Strathairn graduated college and traveled to Florida to visit with his grandfather, but the grandfather passed away while Strathairn was en route. Strathairn, finding himself freshly-arrived and without friends in Florida, decided instead to join the Ringling Brothers Clown College and subsequently worked as a clown for six months in a traveling circus.Relocating to New York State, he spent several years hitchhiking across America to work in local theaters during the summers. During one of these summers Strathairn reunited with Sayles, and this eventually resulted in his role in the highly regarded Return of the Secaucus Seven (1979), Sayles' directorial debut. Thereafter Strathairn developed an extensive resume of supporting roles, which became increasingly substantial as his stature in the industry grew; notable films include Lovesick (1983), Silkwood (1983), L.A. konfidensielt (1997), and A Map of the World (1999). Sayles frequently casts Strathairn, whose performances can be seen in Sayles' The Brother from Another Planet (1984), Matewan (1987), Eight Men Out (1988), City of Hope (1991), and Passion Fish (1992). Perhaps most notable of his collaborations with Sayles is his superb performance co-starring with Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio in Limbo (1999).After a string of successful supporting roles in the early 2000s, Strathairn found himself thrust into the role of leading man with his performance as Edward R. Murrow in George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) Taking on the role of the iconic newsman in the black-and-white drama, Strathairn garnered numerous award mentions including an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. Following the success of that film, Strathairn traveled easily between low-budget independent films - The Notorious Bettie Page (2005), The Sensation of Sight (2006), My Blueberry Nights (2007), and Howl (2010) among them - and big-budget Hollywood productions, including We Are Marshall (2006), Spiderwick krønikene (2008), both Jason Bournes ultimatum (2007) and The Bourne Legacy (2012), and Steven Spielberg's biopic Lincoln (2012), in which he plays Secretary of State William Seward.Strathairn has also worked extensively in television, and first became familiar to television viewers as the title character's boss in the series The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd (1987). In addition to narration work for many PBS shows, Strathairn has appeared in the TV series Big Apple (2001), The Sopranos (1999), Monk (2002), and headed the cast of the science-fiction series Alphas (2011). His work in television films has brought him an Emmy Award for Temple Grandin (2010) and an Emmy nominations for Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012).Strathairn married nurse Logan Goodman in 1980, and the couple have two children. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Larry-115

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Releases by Year

David Strathairn on average has worked on 2 movies per year from 1983 to 2020. See the full graphs of the number of David Strathairn movies released per year from 2007 till 2020.

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David Strathairn works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Crime Genre flixes. 53% of David Strathairn movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that David Strathairn worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that David Strathairn has worked on is 6.5.

6.5 / 10

David Strathairn's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Biography,Drama
Temple Grandin (2010)

A biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who has become one of the top scientists in the humane livestock handling industry.

8.2/10107 min

Available in 11 platform(s).

Biography,Drama,History
Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)

Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy.

7.4/1093 min

Available in 9 platform(s).

A woman in her sixties who, after losing everything in the Great Recession, embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.

7.3/10107 min

Available in 11 platform(s).

A non-linear crime series that is centered around an interrogation of people who might be involved in a decades-old murder case.

7.3/1046 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Biography,Drama,History
Lincoln (2012)

As the American Civil War continues to rage, America's president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves.

7.3/10150 min

Available in 17 platform(s).

Action,Drama,Sci-Fi
Alphas (2011)

Alphas is a science fiction drama focusing on a team that investigates people with supernatural abilities.

7.2/1044 min

Available in 6 platform(s).

Crime,Drama,Thriller
Fracture (2007)

An attorney intending on climbing the career ladder toward success finds an unlikely opponent in a manipulative criminal he is trying to prosecute.

7.2/10113 min

Available in 10 platform(s).

Biography,Crime,Drama
The Whistleblower (2010)

A drama based on the experiences of Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska cop who served as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and outed the U.N. for covering up a sex trafficking scandal.

7.1/10112 min

Available in 14 platform(s).