David Strathairn has received various accolades including an Independent Spirit Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Volpi Cup, and has been nominated for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards.
28 Facts About David Strathairn
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David Strathairn is recognized for his role as CIA Deputy Director Noah Vosen in The Bourne Ultimatum, and The Bourne Legacy.
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David Strathairn appeared in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, Chloe Zhao's Nomadland, and Guillermo del Toro's Nightmare Alley.
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David Strathairn portrayed Robert Wegler in the acclaimed HBO drama series The Sopranos.
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David Strathairn received a Primetime Emmy Award win and a Golden Globe Award nomination for his performance in the HBO television film Temple Grandin.
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David Strathairn was born in San Francisco, California, the second of three children of Thomas Scott David Strathairn, Jr.
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David Strathairn is of Scottish descent through his paternal grandfather, Thomas Scott Strathairn, a native of Crieff, and of Native Hawaiian ancestry through his paternal grandmother, Josephine Lei Victoria Alana.
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David Strathairn attended Redwood High School in Larkspur, California, and graduated from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, in 1970.
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David Strathairn received Best Actor Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations for his performance.
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David Strathairn is a character actor, appearing in supporting roles in many independent and Hollywood films.
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David Strathairn has worked with his Williams College classmate and director John Sayles.
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David Strathairn made his film debut in Return of the Secaucus 7, and worked in the films Passion Fish, Matewan, Limbo and City of Hope, for which he won the Independent Spirit Award.
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David Strathairn had a recurring role on the hit television drama The Sopranos.
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David Strathairn reprised his role as Edward R Murrow in a speech similar to the one from Good Night, and Good Luck, but was altered to reference Gillibrand's opponent John Sweeney.
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The film is based on Gow's stage play Cherry Docs, in which David Strathairn starred for its American premiere at the Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia.
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David Strathairn played a role in Paramount Pictures' children's film The Spiderwick Chronicles as Arthur Spiderwick.
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David Strathairn first played Oppenheimer in the 1989 CBS TV movie Day One.
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David Strathairn plays William Flynn, an FBI agent dealing with anarchism in 1920s New York City, in No God, No Master.
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In 2009, David Strathairn performed in The People Speak, a documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans.
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David Strathairn starred as Dr Lee Rosen on Syfy's series Alphas.
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In 2020, David Strathairn was one of the few genuine actors in the Oscar-winner Nomadland, directed by Chloe Zhao.
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David Strathairn appears alongside his son Tay, the first time they have acted together on screen since 1988's Eight Men Out when Tay was just eight years old.
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David Strathairn is a stage actor and has performed over 30 theatrical roles.
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David Strathairn performed several roles in stage plays by Harold Pinter.
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In 2015 David Strathairn appeared in Anton Chekov's The Cherry Orchard with Mary McDonnell at People's Light theater in Malvern, Pennsylvania.
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David Strathairn lent his voice talents to an adaptation in the form of a radio play of Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here by the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in October 2020.
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In 2021, David Strathairn garnered critical acclaim for a production of Remember This at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater.
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David Strathairn narrated a biographical video to introduce Barack Obama before his acceptance speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.