David Strathairn

Acting

January 26, 1949 (77 years old)

San Francisco, California, USA

Male

133 Movies

22 TV Shows

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).

The Bourne Ultimatum

2007 7.4

as Noah Vosen

Age 58 (now 77)

Nomadland

2021 7.2

as Dave

Age 72 (now 77)

Fracture

2007 7.3

as Joe Lobruto

Age 58 (now 77)

Good Night, and Good Luck.

2005 7.1

as Edward R. Murrow

Age 56 (now 77)

Lincoln

2012 6.8

as William Seward

Age 63 (now 77)

The Spiderwick Chronicles

2008 6.7

as Arthur Spiderwick

Age 59 (now 77)

Where the Crawdads Sing

2022 7.5

as Tom Milton

Age 73 (now 77)

Temple Grandin

2010 7.9

as Professor Carlock

Age 61 (now 77)

The River Wild

1994 6.5

as Tom Hartman

Age 45 (now 77)

The Uninvited

2009 6.5

as Steven

Age 60 (now 77)

Sneakers

1992 6.9

as Whistler

Age 43 (now 77)

L.A. Confidential

1997 7.8

as Pierce Patchett

Age 48 (now 77)

An Interview with God

2018 7.0

as God

Age 69 (now 77)

Zootopia 2

2025 7.7

as Milton Lynxley (voice)

Age 76 (now 77)

My Blueberry Nights

2007 6.4

as Arnie

Age 58 (now 77)

The Blacklist

2013 7.6

as Peter Kotsiopulos

Age 64 (now 77) 12 eps

12 eps

By Any Means

2026

Age 77

O Horizon

2026

as Warren

Age 77

Stages

2026

as Porter Gates

Age 77

This Ordinary Thing

2025

as Self (voice)

Age 76 (now 77)

Zootopia 2

2025 7.7

as Milton Lynxley (voice)

Age 76 (now 77)

The Gettysburg Address

2025

as Ralph Waldo Emerson (voice)

Age 76 (now 77)

A Little Prayer

2025 5.4

as Bill

Age 76 (now 77)

The Luckiest Man in America

2025 6.3

as Bill

Age 76 (now 77)

Remember This

2023

as Jan Karski

Age 74 (now 77)

Where the Crawdads Sing

2022 7.5

as Tom Milton

Age 73 (now 77)

Nightmare Alley

2021 7.0

as Pete

Age 72 (now 77)

Nomadland

2021 7.2

as Dave

Age 72 (now 77)

The Oedipus Project

2020 10.0

as Messenger 1

Age 71 (now 77)

Walkaway Joe

2020 6.0

as Joe Haley

Age 71 (now 77)

Them That Work

2019

as Self

Age 70 (now 77)

The Devil Has a Name

2019 5.3

as Fred Stern

Age 70 (now 77)

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

2019 6.7

as Admiral William Stenz

Age 70 (now 77)

Fast Color

2019 5.9

as Ellis

Age 70 (now 77)

My Dinner with Hervé

2018 6.3

as Marty Rothstein

Age 69 (now 77)

UFO

2018 6.9

as Franklin Ahls

Age 69 (now 77)

An Interview with God

2018 7.0

as God

Age 69 (now 77)

Darkest Hour

2017 7.4

as President Roosevelt (voice)

Age 68 (now 77)

November Criminals

2017 5.3

as Theo

Age 68 (now 77)

American Pastoral

2016 6.2

as Nathan Zuckerman

Age 67 (now 77)

He Does Not Want Peace

2016 8.0

as Richard Englebright

Age 67 (now 77)

Louder Than Bombs

2015 6.5

as Richard Weissman

Age 66 (now 77)

The Debt

2015 6.1

as Nathan

Age 66 (now 77)

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

2015 6.4

as Ty Burley

Age 66 (now 77)

Godzilla

2014 6.4

as Admiral William Stenz

Age 65 (now 77)

No God, No Master

2014 5.9

as William Flynn

Age 65 (now 77)

Lincoln@Gettysburg

2013 7.4

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Age 64 (now 77)

Love, Marilyn

2013 6.6

as Self

Age 64 (now 77)

Lincoln

2012 6.8

as William Seward

Age 63 (now 77)

Hemingway & Gellhorn

2012 6.1

as John Dos Passos

Age 63 (now 77)

The Bourne Legacy

2012 6.2

as Noah Vosen

Age 63 (now 77)

Maladies

2012 5.3

as Delmar

Age 63 (now 77)

The Whistleblower

2010 6.7

as Peter Ward

Age 61 (now 77)

The Tempest

2010 5.3

as King Alonso

Age 61 (now 77)

Howl

2010 6.4

as Ralph McIntosh

Age 61 (now 77)

Inside Area 51's Secrets

2010

as Narrator

Age 61 (now 77)

Area 51 Declassified

2010 8.0

as Himself - Narrator

Age 61 (now 77)

Temple Grandin

2010 7.9

as Professor Carlock

Age 61 (now 77)

Matadors

2010 6.0

as Roman Lodari

Age 60 (now 77)

The People Speak

2009 7.2

as Self

Age 60 (now 77)

Cold Souls

2009 6.0

as Dr. Flintstein

Age 60 (now 77)

The Uninvited

2009 6.5

as Steven

Age 60 (now 77)

Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential'

2008 8.0

as Self

Age 59 (now 77)

Sunlight and Shadow: The Visual Style of 'L.A. Confidential'

2008 5.0

as Self

Age 59 (now 77)

The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer

2008 5.9

as J. Robert Oppenheimer

Age 59 (now 77)

The Spiderwick Chronicles

2008 6.7

as Arthur Spiderwick

Age 59 (now 77)

My Blueberry Nights

2007 6.4

as Arnie

Age 58 (now 77)

Trumbo

2007 6.7

as Self

Age 58 (now 77)

Matters of Life and Death

2007 9.0

as Mr. Jennings

Age 58 (now 77)

The Bourne Ultimatum

2007 7.4

as Noah Vosen

Age 58 (now 77)

Racing Daylight

2007 3.3

as Henry / Harry

Age 58 (now 77)

Steel Toes

2007 5.2

as Danny Dunkelman

Age 58 (now 77)

Fracture

2007 7.3

as Joe Lobruto

Age 58 (now 77)

The Supreme Court

2007

as Narrator

Age 58 (now 77)

We Are Marshall

2006 6.9

as President Dedmon

Age 57 (now 77)

The Sensation of Sight

2006 8.0

as Finn

Age 57 (now 77)

The Sensation of Sight

2006 8.0

Producer

Age 57 (now 77)

Heavens Fall

2006 7.0

as Judge James Horton

Age 57 (now 77)

The Human Behavior Experiments

2006 7.5

as Narrator

Age 57 (now 77)

The Shovel

2006 6.0

as Paul Mullin

Age 57 (now 77)

The Notorious Bettie Page

2006 6.3

as Estes Kefauver

Age 57 (now 77)

Good Night, and Good Luck.

2005 7.1

as Edward R. Murrow

Age 56 (now 77)

Willa Cather: The Road Is All

2005 10.0

as Narrator

Age 56 (now 77)

Missing in America

2005 5.8

as Henry R. Hocknell Jr.

Age 55 (now 77)

Twisted

2004 5.6

as Dr. Melvin Frank

Age 55 (now 77)

Paradise

2004 4.1

as Reverend Bobby Paradise

Age 54 (now 77)

The Making of ‘Sneakers’

2003 7.5

as Self

Age 54 (now 77)

Blue Car

2003 6.2

as Auster

Age 54 (now 77)

Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story

2002 4.8

as Jack Hoschouer

Age 53 (now 77)

Lathe of Heaven

2002 6.0

as Mannie

Age 53 (now 77)

Speakeasy

2002 4.4

as Bruce Hickman

Age 52 (now 77)

Relative Evil

2001 5.6

as Dr. Charlie

Age 52 (now 77)

The Victim

2001 9.0

as Mark Zingerline

Age 51 (now 77)

A Good Baby

2000 6.5

as Truman Lester

Age 51 (now 77)

The Miracle Worker

2000 7.2

as Captain Keller

Age 51 (now 77)

Harrison's Flowers

2000 6.5

as Harrison Lloyd

Age 51 (now 77)

Freedom Song

2000 5.7

as Peter Crowley

Age 51 (now 77)

A Map of the World

1999 6.0

as Howard Goodwin

Age 50 (now 77)

Limbo

1999 6.6

as Joe Gastineau

Age 50 (now 77)

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1999 6.4

as Theseus

Age 50 (now 77)

The Giraffe

1999 5.3

as Charles Kaminski

Age 50 (now 77)

Bad Manners

1998 4.8

as Wes Westlund

Age 49 (now 77)

Simon Birch

1998 6.8

as Reverend Russell

Age 49 (now 77)

With Friends Like These

1998 6.5

as Armand Minetti

Age 49 (now 77)

Evidence of Blood

1998 6.6

as Jackson Kinley

Age 49 (now 77)

The Climb

1998 7.1

as Earl Himes

Age 49 (now 77)

L.A. Confidential

1997 7.8

as Pierce Patchett

Age 48 (now 77)

Song of Hiawatha

1997 7.0

as Marcel

Age 48 (now 77)

In the Gloaming

1997 6.0

as Martin

Age 48 (now 77)

Mother Night

1996 6.6

as Bernard B. O'Hare

Age 47 (now 77)

Beyond the Call

1996 6.5

as Russel Gates

Age 47 (now 77)

Home for the Holidays

1995 6.2

as Russell Terziak

Age 46 (now 77)

Dolores Claiborne

1995 7.3

as Joe St. George

Age 46 (now 77)

Losing Isaiah

1995 6.5

as Charles Lewin

Age 46 (now 77)

The River Wild

1994 6.5

as Tom Hartman

Age 45 (now 77)

April One

1994 9.0

as John McCowan

Age 45 (now 77)

A Dangerous Woman

1993 5.5

as Getso

Age 44 (now 77)

The Firm

1993 6.7

as Ray McDeere

Age 44 (now 77)

Lost in Yonkers

1993 6.3

as Johnny

Age 44 (now 77)

The American Clock

1993 5.7

as Young Arthur Huntington

Age 43 (now 77)

Passion Fish

1992 7.0

as Rennie

Age 43 (now 77)

Sneakers

1992 6.9

as Whistler

Age 43 (now 77)

Bob Roberts

1992 6.5

as Mack Laflin

Age 43 (now 77)

A League of Their Own

1992 7.2

as Ira Lowenstein

Age 43 (now 77)

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

1992 6.1

as Keith

Age 43 (now 77)

O Pioneers!

1992 6.2

as Carl Linstrum

Age 43 (now 77)

City of Hope

1991 6.8

as Asteroid

Age 42 (now 77)

Without Warning: The James Brady Story

1991 7.0

as Dr. Arthur Kobrine

Age 42 (now 77)

Judgment

1990 5.5

as Father Frank Aubert

Age 41 (now 77)

Memphis Belle

1990 6.7

as Craig Harriman

Age 41 (now 77)

Heat Wave

1990 6.8

as Bill Thomas

Age 41 (now 77)

The Feud

1989 5.2

as The Stranger

Age 40 (now 77)

Day One

1989 6.2

as J. Robert Oppenheimer

Age 40 (now 77)

Eight Men Out

1988 6.9

as Eddie Cicotte

Age 39 (now 77)

Call Me

1988 4.8

as Sam

Age 39 (now 77)

Stars & Bars

1988 4.4

as Charlie

Age 39 (now 77)

Dominick and Eugene

1988 6.9

as Martin Chernak

Age 39 (now 77)

Matewan

1987 7.4

as Police Chief Sid Hatfield

Age 38 (now 77)

Broken Vows

1987 4.8

as Stuart Chase

Age 38 (now 77)

At Close Range

1986 6.8

as Tony Pine

Age 37 (now 77)

When Nature Calls

1985 4.8

as Weejun

Age 36 (now 77)

The Brother from Another Planet

1984 6.7

as Man In Black

Age 35 (now 77)

Iceman

1984 6.2

as Dr. Singe

Age 35 (now 77)

Silkwood

1983 6.9

as Wesley

Age 34 (now 77)

Lovesick

1983 5.7

as Marvin Zuckerman

Age 34 (now 77)

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

1983 4.6

as Jerry

Age 33 (now 77)

Return of the Secaucus Seven

1980 6.5

as Ron

Age 31 (now 77)