
Acting
Born January 26, 1949 · 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).

This Ordinary Thing
2025

Zootopia 2
2025

The Gettysburg Address
2025

A Little Prayer
2025

The Luckiest Man in America
2025

O Horizon
2025

Remember This
2023

Where the Crawdads Sing
2022

Nightmare Alley
2021

Nomadland
2021

The Oedipus Project
2020

Walkaway Joe
2020

Them That Work
2019

The Devil Has a Name
2019

Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019

Fast Color
2019

My Dinner with Hervé
2018

UFO
2018

An Interview with God
2018

Darkest Hour
2017

November Criminals
2017

American Pastoral
2016

He Does Not Want Peace
2016

Louder Than Bombs
2015

The Debt
2015

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
2015
Clementine
2014

Godzilla
2014

No God, No Master
2014

Lincoln@Gettysburg
2013

Love, Marilyn
2013

Lincoln
2012

Hemingway & Gellhorn
2012

The Bourne Legacy
2012

Maladies
2012

The Whistleblower
2010

The Tempest
2010

Howl
2010
Inside Area 51's Secrets
2010

Area 51 Declassified
2010

Temple Grandin
2010
Matadors
2010

The People Speak
2009

Cold Souls
2009

The Uninvited
2009

Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential'
2008
Sunlight and Shadow: The Visual Style of 'L.A. Confidential'
2008

The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
2008

The Spiderwick Chronicles
2008

My Blueberry Nights
2007

Trumbo
2007

Matters of Life and Death
2007

The Bourne Ultimatum
2007

Racing Daylight
2007

Steel Toes
2007

Fracture
2007

The Supreme Court
2007

We Are Marshall
2006

The Sensation of Sight
2006

Heavens Fall
2006

The Human Behavior Experiments
2006
The Shovel
2006

The Notorious Bettie Page
2006

Good Night, and Good Luck.
2005
Willa Cather: The Road Is All
2005

Missing in America
2005

Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004

Twisted
2004

Paradise
2004

The Making of ‘Sneakers’
2003

Blue Car
2003

Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story
2002

Lathe of Heaven
2002

Speakeasy
2002

Relative Evil
2001

The Victim
2001

A Good Baby
2000

The Miracle Worker
2000

Harrison's Flowers
2000

Freedom Song
2000

A Map of the World
1999

Limbo
1999

A Midsummer Night's Dream
1999

Bad Manners
1998

The Giraffe
1998

Simon Birch
1998

With Friends Like These
1998

Evidence of Blood
1998

The Climb
1998

L.A. Confidential
1997

Song of Hiawatha
1997

In the Gloaming
1997

Mother Night
1996

Beyond the Call
1996

Home for the Holidays
1995

Dolores Claiborne
1995

Losing Isaiah
1995

The River Wild
1994

April One
1994

A Dangerous Woman
1993

The Firm
1993

Lost in Yonkers
1993

The American Clock
1993

Passion Fish
1992

Sneakers
1992

Bob Roberts
1992

A League of Their Own
1992

Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even
1992

O Pioneers!
1992

City of Hope
1991

Without Warning: The James Brady Story
1991

Judgment
1990

Memphis Belle
1990

Heat Wave
1990

The Feud
1989

Day One
1989

Eight Men Out
1988

Call Me
1988

Stars & Bars
1988

Dominick and Eugene
1988

Matewan
1987

Broken Vows
1987

At Close Range
1986

When Nature Calls
1985

The Brother from Another Planet
1984

Iceman
1984

Silkwood
1983

Lovesick
1983

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
1983

Return of the Secaucus Seven
1980