Actor
· Acting
David Strathairn
Born 1949-01-26
📍 San Francisco, California, USA
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 (2020), and Nightmare Alley (2021). He is a frequent collaborator with director John Sayles, who is a fellow graduate of Williams College.
On television, Strathairn is known for his recurring roles in The Sopranos (2004), Alphas (2011–2012), The Blacklist (2015–2016), Billions (2017–2019), and The Expanse (2018–2019). He received a Primetime Emmy Award win and a Golden Globe Award nomination for his performance in the HBO television film Temple Grandin (2010).
Filmography 145
O Horizon
as Warren
2026
Stages
as Porter Gates
2026
This Ordinary Thing
as Self (voice)
2025
Zootopia 2
as Milton Lynxley (voice)
2025
The Gettysburg Address
as Ralph Waldo Emerson (voice)
2025
A Little Prayer
as Bill
2025
The Luckiest Man in America
as Bill
2025
A Man on the Inside
as Dr. Benjamin Cole
2024
Remember This
as Jan Karski
2023
Where the Crawdads Sing
as Tom Milton
2022
Nightmare Alley
as Pete
2021
Nomadland
as Dave
2021
The Oedipus Project
as Messenger 1
2020
Walkaway Joe
as Joe Haley
2020
Interrogation
as Henry Fisher
2020
Them That Work
as Self
2019
The Devil Has a Name
as Fred Stern
2019
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
as Admiral William Stenz
2019
Fast Color
as Ellis
2019
My Dinner with Hervé
as Marty Rothstein
2018
UFO
as Franklin Ahls
2018
An Interview with God
as God
2018
McMafia
as Semiyon Kleiman
2018
Darkest Hour
as President Roosevelt (voice)
2017
November Criminals
as Theo
2017
American Pastoral
as Nathan Zuckerman
2016
He Does Not Want Peace
as Richard Englebright
2016
Billions
as Black Jack Foley
2016
The Expanse
as Commander Klaes Ashford
2015
The Expanse
as Klaes Ashford
2015
Z: The Beginning of Everything
as Anthony Sayre
2015
Louder Than Bombs
as Richard Weissman
2015
The Debt
as Nathan
2015
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
as Ty Burley
2015
Godzilla
as Admiral William Stenz
2014
No God, No Master
as William Flynn
2014
Lincoln@Gettysburg
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2013
The Blacklist
as Peter Kotsiopulos
2013
Love, Marilyn
as Self
2013
Lincoln
as William Seward
2012
Hemingway & Gellhorn
as John Dos Passos
2012
The Bourne Legacy
as Noah Vosen
2012
Maladies
as Delmar
2012
Alphas
as Lee Rosen
2011
The Whistleblower
as Peter Ward
2010
The Tempest
as King Alonso
2010
Howl
as Ralph McIntosh
2010
Area 51 Declassified
as Himself - Narrator
2010
Temple Grandin
as Professor Carlock
2010
The People Speak
as Self
2009
Cold Souls
as Dr. Flintstein
2009
The Uninvited
as Steven
2009
Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential'
as Self
2008
The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
as J. Robert Oppenheimer
2008
The Spiderwick Chronicles
as Arthur Spiderwick
2008
My Blueberry Nights
as Arnie
2007
Trumbo
as Self
2007
Matters of Life and Death
as Mr. Jennings
2007
The Bourne Ultimatum
as Noah Vosen
2007
Racing Daylight
as Henry / Harry
2007
Steel Toes
as Danny Dunkelman
2007
Fracture
as Joe Lobruto
2007
The Supreme Court
as Narrator
2007
We Are Marshall
as President Dedmon
2006
The Sensation of Sight
as Finn
2006
Heavens Fall
as Judge James Horton
2006
The Human Behavior Experiments
as Narrator
2006
The Notorious Bettie Page
as Estes Kefauver
2006
Good Night, and Good Luck.
as Edward R. Murrow
2005
Missing in America
as Henry R. Hocknell Jr.
2005
House
as Nash
2004
Los Angeles Plays Itself
as Pierce Patchett in L.A. Confidential (archive footage)
2004
Twisted
as Dr. Melvin Frank
2004
Paradise
as Reverend Bobby Paradise
2004
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
as Self
2003
Blue Car
as Auster
2003
Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story
as Jack Hoschouer
2002
Lathe of Heaven
as Mannie
2002
Monk
as Patrick Kloster
2002
Speakeasy
as Bruce Hickman
2002
Relative Evil
as Dr. Charlie
2001
The Victim
as Mark Zingerline
2001
A Good Baby
as Truman Lester
2000
The Miracle Worker
as Captain Keller
2000
Harrison's Flowers
as Harrison Lloyd
2000
Freedom Song
as Peter Crowley
2000
A Map of the World
as Howard Goodwin
1999
Limbo
as Joe Gastineau
1999
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Theseus
1999
The Giraffe
as Charles Kaminski
1999
The Sopranos
as Robert Wegler
1999
Bad Manners
as Wes Westlund
1998
Simon Birch
as Rev. Russell
1998
With Friends Like These
as Armand Minetti
1998
Evidence of Blood
as Jackson Kinley
1998
The Climb
as Earl Himes
1998
L.A. Confidential
as Pierce Patchett
1997
Song of Hiawatha
as Marcel
1997
In the Gloaming
as Martin
1997
Mother Night
as Bernard B. O'Hare
1996
Beyond the Call
as Russel Gates
1996
Home for the Holidays
as Russell Terziak
1995
Dolores Claiborne
as Joe St. George
1995
Losing Isaiah
as Charles Lewin
1995
The River Wild
as Tom Hartman
1994
April One
as John McCowan
1994
A Dangerous Woman
as Getso
1993
The Firm
as Ray McDeere
1993
Lost in Yonkers
as Johnny
1993
The American Clock
as Young Arthur Huntington
1993
Passion Fish
as Rennie
1992
Sneakers
as Whistler
1992
Bob Roberts
as Mack Laflin
1992
A League of Their Own
as Ira Lowenstein
1992
Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even
as Keith
1992
O Pioneers!
as Carl Linstrum
1992
City of Hope
as Asteroid
1991
Without Warning: The James Brady Story
as Dr. Arthur Kobrine
1991
Judgment
as Father Frank Aubert
1990
Memphis Belle
as Craig Harriman
1990
Heat Wave
as Bill Thomas
1990
The Feud
as The Stranger
1989
Day One
as J. Robert Oppenheimer
1989
Eight Men Out
as Eddie Cicotte
1988
Call Me
as Sam
1988
Stars & Bars
as Charlie
1988
Dominick and Eugene
as Martin Chernak
1988
Wiseguy
1987
Matewan
as Police Chief Sid Hatfield
1987
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
as Moss Goodman
1987
Broken Vows
as Stuart Chase
1987
At Close Range
as Tony Pine
1986
Spenser: For Hire
1985
The Equalizer
as Phillip Borchek
1985
When Nature Calls
as Weejun
1985
Miami Vice
as Marty Lang
1984
The Brother from Another Planet
as Man In Black
1984
Iceman
as Dr. Singe
1984
Silkwood
as Wesley
1983
Lovesick
as Marvin Zuckerman
1983
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
as Jerry
1983
Return of the Secaucus Seven
as Ron
1980
The Oscars
as Self
1953
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Carl Linstrum
1951
The Emmy Awards
as Self
1949