Cast
David Strathairn
Acting
Cast
David Strathairn
Known for
Acting
Born
1949-01-26
From
San Francisco, California, USA
Also known as David Russell Strathairn
Biography
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 (2007β2012). 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 (2011β2012), The Blacklist (2015β2016), Billions (2017β2019), and The Expanse (2018β2019). He received a Primetime Emmy Award win and a Golden Globe Award nomination for his performance in the HBO television film Temple Grandin (2010).
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7.7
MOVIE2025
Zootopia 2
as Milton Lynxley (voice)
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6.4
MOVIE2014
Godzilla
as Admiral William Stenz
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6.7
MOVIE2019
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
as Admiral William Stenz
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7.5
MOVIE2022
Where the Crawdads Sing
as Tom Milton
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6.7
MOVIE2008
The Spiderwick Chronicles
as Arthur Spiderwick
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7.4
MOVIE2017
Darkest Hour
as President Roosevelt (voice)
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7.8
MOVIE1997
L.A. Confidential
as Pierce Patchett
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6.9
MOVIE1992
Sneakers
as Whistler
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6.3
MOVIE2012
The Bourne Legacy
as Noah Vosen
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7.3
MOVIE2007
Fracture
as Joe Lobruto
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6.8
MOVIE2012
Lincoln
as William Seward
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6.9
MOVIE2021
Nightmare Alley
as Pete
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7.2
MOVIE1992
A League of Their Own
as Ira Lowenstein
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7.4
MOVIE2007
The Bourne Ultimatum
as Noah Vosen
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7.2
MOVIE2021
Nomadland
as Dave
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6.7
MOVIE1993
The Firm
as Ray McDeere
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5.3
MOVIE2017
November Criminals
as Theo
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6.1
MOVIE2012
Hemingway & Gellhorn
as John Dos Passos
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6.5
MOVIE1994
The River Wild
as Tom Hartman
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6.5
MOVIE2009
The Uninvited
as Steven
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7.1
MOVIE2005
Good Night, and Good Luck.
as Edward R. Murrow
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5.6
MOVIE2004
Twisted
as Dr. Melvin Frank
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6.4
MOVIE1999
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Theseus
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6.8
MOVIE1986
At Close Range
as Tony Pine
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MOVIE2010
The Whistleblower
as Peter Ward
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6.3
MOVIE2018
My Dinner with HervΓ©
as Marty Rothstein
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6.4
MOVIE2007
My Blueberry Nights
as Arnie
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6.4
MOVIE2015
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
as Ty Burley
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6.6
MOVIE1999
Limbo
as Joe Gastineau
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6.5
MOVIE2015
Louder Than Bombs
as Richard Weissman
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6.2
MOVIE1984
Iceman
as Dr. Singe
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MOVIE2018
An Interview with God
as God
MOVIE2026
By Any Means
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6.0
MOVIE1997
In the Gloaming
as Martin
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7.0
MOVIE1992
Passion Fish
as Rennie
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MOVIE2010
Temple Grandin
as Professor Carlock
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6.2
MOVIE2016
American Pastoral
as Nathan Zuckerman
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6.3
MOVIE2025
The Luckiest Man in America
as Bill
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MOVIE1990
Memphis Belle
as Craig Harriman
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MOVIE2006
We Are Marshall
as President Dedmon
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7.2
MOVIE2000
The Miracle Worker
as Captain Keller
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6.8
MOVIE1998
Simon Birch
as Reverend Russell
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5.3
MOVIE2019
The Devil Has a Name
as Fred Stern
MOVIE2023
Remember This
as Jan Karski
MOVIE2026
Stages
as Porter Gates
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6.8
MOVIE1988
Eight Men Out
as Eddie Cicotte
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6.9
MOVIE1983
Silkwood
as Wesley
MOVIE2025
The Gettysburg Address
as Ralph Waldo Emerson (voice)
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5.8
MOVIE1997
Song of Hiawatha
as Marcel
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6.6
MOVIE2013
Love, Marilyn
as Self
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4.8
MOVIE1988
Call Me
as Sam
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MOVIE1987
Matewan
as Police Chief Sid Hatfield
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4.8
MOVIE1998
Bad Manners
as Wes Westlund
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6.3
MOVIE2006
The Notorious Bettie Page
as Estes Kefauver
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MOVIE1994
April One
as John McCowan
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7.2
MOVIE2009
The People Speak
as Self
MOVIE2025
This Ordinary Thing
as Self (voice)
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6.9
MOVIE2018
UFO
as Franklin Ahls
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5.5
MOVIE1993
A Dangerous Woman
as Getso
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4.1
MOVIE2004
Paradise
as Reverend Bobby Paradise
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9.0
MOVIE2001
The Victim
as Mark Zingerline
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6.3
MOVIE1995
Home for the Holidays
as Russell Terziak
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6.5
MOVIE1995
Losing Isaiah
as Charles Lewin
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5.3
MOVIE1999
The Giraffe
as Charles Kaminski
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5.9
MOVIE2019
Fast Color
as Ellis
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7.3
MOVIE1995
Dolores Claiborne
as Joe St. George
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6.5
MOVIE2000
Harrison's Flowers
as Harrison Lloyd
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7.5
MOVIE2003
The Making of βSneakersβ
as Self
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7.4
MOVIE2013
Lincoln@Gettysburg
as Self - Narrator (voice)
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8.0
MOVIE2006
The Sensation of Sight
as Finn
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5.3
MOVIE2010
The Tempest
as King Alonso
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6.5
MOVIE1998
With Friends Like These
as Armand Minetti
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6.5
MOVIE1992
Bob Roberts
as Mack Laflin
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MOVIE1991
City of Hope
as Asteroid
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MOVIE2010
Matadors
as Roman Lodari
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6.4
MOVIE2010
Howl
as Ralph McIntosh
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MOVIE1996
Mother Night
as Bernard B. O'Hare
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MOVIE2002
Lathe of Heaven
as Mannie
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MOVIE1999
A Map of the World
as Howard Goodwin
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MOVIE1988
Stars & Bars
as Charlie
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MOVIE1990
Judgment
as Father Frank Aubert
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MOVIE2005
Missing in America
as Henry R. Hocknell Jr.
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MOVIE2020
Walkaway Joe
as Joe Haley
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MOVIE2001
Relative Evil
as Dr. Charlie
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6.0
MOVIE2006
The Shovel
as Paul Mullin
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MOVIE2006
Heavens Fall
as Judge James Horton
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6.0
MOVIE2009
Cold Souls
as Dr. Flintstein
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4.8
MOVIE1987
Broken Vows
as Stuart Chase
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5.7
MOVIE1983
Lovesick
as Marvin Zuckerman
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10.0
MOVIE2020
The Oedipus Project
as Messenger 1
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5.9
MOVIE2014
No God, No Master
as William Flynn
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6.5
MOVIE1996
Beyond the Call
as Russel Gates
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6.6
MOVIE1998
Evidence of Blood
as Jackson Kinley
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5.7
MOVIE1993
The American Clock
as Young Arthur Huntington
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7.0
MOVIE1991
Without Warning: The James Brady Story
as Dr. Arthur Kobrine
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MOVIE2006
The Human Behavior Experiments
as Narrator
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5.0
MOVIE2008
Sunlight and Shadow: The Visual Style of 'L.A. Confidential'
as Self
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5.4
MOVIE2025
A Little Prayer
as Bill
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6.9
MOVIE1988
Dominick and Eugene
as Martin Chernak
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6.1
MOVIE1992
Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even
as Keith
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8.0
MOVIE2016
He Does Not Want Peace
as Richard Englebright
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6.7
MOVIE2007
Trumbo
as Self
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3.3
MOVIE2007
Racing Daylight
as Henry / Harry
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7.1
MOVIE1998
The Climb
as Earl Himes
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6.7
MOVIE1984
The Brother from Another Planet
as Man In Black
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8.0
MOVIE2008
Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential'
as Self
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4.8
MOVIE2002
Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story
as Jack Hoschouer
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6.8
MOVIE1990
Heat Wave
as Bill Thomas
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5.7
MOVIE2000
Freedom Song
as Peter Crowley
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6.2
MOVIE2003
Blue Car
as Auster
MOVIETBA
Babies
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6.2
MOVIE1992
O Pioneers!
as Carl Linstrum
MOVIE2026
O Horizon
as Warren
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4.6
MOVIE1983
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
as Jerry
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8.0
MOVIE2010
Area 51 Declassified
as Himself - Narrator
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6.1
MOVIE2015
The Debt
as Nathan
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4.4
MOVIE2002
Speakeasy
as Bruce Hickman
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6.2
MOVIE2008
The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
as J. Robert Oppenheimer
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6.3
MOVIE1993
Lost in Yonkers
as Johnny
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5.3
MOVIE2012
Maladies
as Delmar
MOVIETBA
The Bard
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6.2
MOVIE1989
Day One
as J. Robert Oppenheimer
MOVIE2007
The Supreme Court
as Narrator
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9.0
MOVIE2007
Matters of Life and Death
as Mr. Jennings
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4.8
MOVIE1985
When Nature Calls
as Weejun
MOVIE2019
Them That Work
as Self
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6.5
MOVIE1980
Return of the Secaucus Seven
as Ron
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5.2
MOVIE1989
The Feud
as The Stranger
MOVIE2010
Inside Area 51's Secrets
as Narrator
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6.5
MOVIE2000
A Good Baby
as Truman Lester
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5.2
MOVIE2007
Steel Toes
as Danny Dunkelman
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10.0
MOVIE2005
Willa Cather: The Road Is All
as Narrator