David Strathairn
David Strathairn | |
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Born | David Russell Strathairn January 26, 1949 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
Alma mater | Williams College |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1979–present |
Spouse |
Logan Goodman (m. 1980) |
Children | 2 |
David Russell Strathairn (
Strathairn made his acting debut in his fellow
Also known for his lengthy work on television, he made his debut in the
Early life and education
Strathairn was born in San Francisco, California.
He studied
Career
Strathairn was nominated for an
Other notable film roles include his portrayals of the title character in
Strathairn is a character actor, appearing in supporting roles in many independent and Hollywood films. In this capacity, he has co-starred in Twisted as a psychiatrist; in The River Wild as a husband; and in Blue Car as a teacher.
He has worked with his
Strathairn's television work also includes a wide range of roles: Moss, the bookselling nebbish on the critically acclaimed The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd; Captain Keller, the father of Helen Keller in the 2000 remake of The Miracle Worker; Capt. Frederick Benteen, a U.S. 7th Cavalry officer under General Custer's command in Son of the Morning Star; and a far-out (both figuratively and literally) televangelist in Paradise, the pilot episode for a TV series on Showtime that was not successful. Strathairn had a recurring role on the hit television drama The Sopranos. Strathairn starred in the Miami Vice episode "Out Where the Buses Don't Run."
Strathairn appeared in We Are Marshall, a 2006 film about the rebirth of Marshall University's football program after the 1970 plane crash that killed most of the team's members; and Cold Souls, starring Paul Giamatti as a fictionalized version of himself, who enlists a company's services to deep freeze his soul, directed by Sophie Barthes. In 2006 he did a campaign ad for then congressional candidate (now Senator) Kirsten Gillibrand. He 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.[13]
Strathairn plays the lead role in the 2007 independent film, Steel Toes, a film by David Gow (writer/co-director/producer) and Mark Adam (co-director/DOP/editor). The film is based on Gow's stage play Cherry Docs, in which Strathairn starred for its American premiere at the Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia.
He played a role in Paramount Pictures' children's film The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008) as Arthur Spiderwick. Strathairn appeared in the American Experience PBS anthology series documentary, The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a biography of the physicist. He first played Oppenheimer in the 1989 CBS TV movie Day One. He plays William Flynn, an FBI agent dealing with anarchism in 1920s New York City, in No God, No Master.
In 2009, 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. It was adapted from the historian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States.[14]
He starred as Dr. Lee Rosen on Syfy's series Alphas.[15]
In 2018-19, Strathairn appeared on the third and fourth seasons of SyFy's The Expanse[16][17] as Klaes Ashford.
In 2020, Strathairn was one of the few genuine actors in the Oscar-winner
Strathairn stars in the 2023 film Remember This, based on the stage play about the life of Polish diplomat and war hero Jan Karski who brought evidence of the Holocaust to Western governments during WW2. The film is executive-produced by Eva Anisko and directed by Jeff Hutchens and Derek Goldman.
Theater
Strathairn is also a stage actor and has performed over 30 theatrical roles. He performed several roles in stage plays by
In 2015 Strathairn appeared in Anton Chekov's The Cherry Orchard with Mary McDonnell at People's Light theater in Malvern, Pennsylvania.[23][24] He 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.[25]
Strathairn plays Jan Karski in the one-man play Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski, written by Clark Young and Derek Goldman. The play is an original production by The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown University. In 2021, Strathairn garnered critical acclaim for a production of Remember This at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater.[26]
Personal life
Strathairn narrated a biographical video to introduce Barack Obama before his acceptance speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.[27]
Strathairn's son Tay Strathairn was keyboardist for the band Dawes.[28][29]
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1980 | Return of the Secaucus 7 | Ron Desjardins | |
1983 | Lovesick | Marvin Zuckerman | |
Silkwood | Wesley | ||
1984 | Iceman | Dr. Singe | |
The Brother from Another Planet | Man in Black | ||
1985 | When Nature Calls | Weejun | |
1986 | At Close Range | Tony Pine | |
1987 | Matewan | Police Chief Sid Hatfield | |
1988 | Stars and Bars | Charlie | |
Call Me | Sam | ||
Eight Men Out | Eddie Cicotte | ||
Dominick and Eugene | Martin Chernak | ||
1989 | The Feud | The Stranger | |
1990 | Memphis Belle | Colonel Craig Harriman | |
Judgment
|
Father Frank Aubert | ||
1991 | City of Hope | Asteroid | |
1992 | Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even | Keith Powers | |
A League of Their Own | Ira Lowenstein | ||
Bob Roberts | Mack Laflin | ||
Sneakers | Erwin 'Whistler' Emory | ||
Passion Fish | Rennie | ||
1993 | Lost in Yonkers | Johnny | |
The Firm | Ray McDeere | ||
A Dangerous Woman | Getso | ||
1994 | The River Wild | Tom Hartman | |
1995 | Losing Isaiah | Charles Lewin | |
Dolores Claiborne | Joe St. George | ||
Home for the Holidays | Russell Terziak | ||
1996 | Mother Night | Lieutenant Bernard B. O'Hare | |
1997 | Song of Hiawatha | Marcel | |
L.A. Confidential | Pierce Morehouse Patchett | ||
Bad Manners | Wes Westlund | ||
1998 | The Climb | Earl Himes | |
With Friends Like These... | Armand Minetti | ||
Simon Birch | Reverend Russell | ||
Meschugge | Charles Kaminski | ||
Evidence of Blood | Jackson Kinley | ||
1999 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Theseus | |
Limbo | "Jumpin Joe" Gastineau | ||
A Map of the World | Howard Goodwin | ||
2000 | A Good Baby | Truman Lester | |
Harrison's Flowers | Harrison Lloyd | ||
2001 | Relative Evil | Dr. Charlie | a.k.a. Ball in the House |
2002 | Speakeasy | Bruce Hickman | |
Blue Car | Auster | ||
2004 | Twisted | Melvin Frank | |
2005 | The Notorious Bettie Page | Estes Kefauver | |
Missing in America | Henry | ||
Good Night, and Good Luck | Edward R. Murrow | ||
2006 | The Shovel | Paul Mullin | Short film |
Heavens Fall | Judge James Horton | ||
We Are Marshall | Donald Dedmon | ||
2007 | The Sensation of Sight | Finn | Also producer |
Steel Toes | Danny Dunckelman | ||
Fracture | District Attorney Joe Lobruto | ||
Racing Daylight | Henry Becker/Harry Stokes | ||
The Bourne Ultimatum | Noah Vosen | ||
My Blueberry Nights | Arnie Copeland | ||
Matters of Life and Death
|
Mr. Jennings | ||
Trumbo | Readings | ||
2008 | The Spiderwick Chronicles | Arthur Spiderwick | |
2009 | The Uninvited | Steven Ivers | |
Cold Souls | Dr. Flintstein | ||
The People Speak | Himself | Documentary | |
Odysseus in America | Narration | ||
2010 | Howl | Ralph McIntosh | |
The Tempest | Alonzo, King of Naples | ||
The Whistleblower | Peter Ward | ||
2012 | The Bourne Legacy | Noah Vosen | |
Maladies | Delmar | ||
No God, No Master | William J. Flynn | ||
Lincoln | William Seward | ||
2014 | Godzilla | Admiral William Stenz | |
2015 | The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | Ty Burley | |
Louder Than Bombs | Richard | ||
The Debt | Nathan | ||
2016 | American Pastoral | Nathan Zuckerman | |
2017 | Darkest Hour | Franklin D. Roosevelt (voice) | |
November Criminals | Theo Schacht | ||
2018 | An Interview with God[30] | God | |
Fast Color | Ellis | ||
UFO | Franklin Ahls | ||
2019 | Godzilla: King of the Monsters | Admiral William Stenz | |
The Devil Has a Name | Fred Stern | ||
2020 | Walkaway Joe | Joe Haley | |
Nomadland
|
David | ||
2021 | Nightmare Alley | Pete Krumbein | |
2022 | Where the Crawdads Sing | Tom Milton | |
2023 | A Little Prayer | Bill | |
TBA | O Horizon | Warren | Post-production |
The Gettysburg Address[citation needed] | Ralph Waldo Emerson (voice) | Documentary; post-production | |
Press Your Luck | Post-production |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1984 | Search for Tomorrow | Dr. Robert Hand | 4 episodes |
1985 | Miami Vice | Marty Lang | Episode: "Out Where the Buses Don't Run" |
1987 | Broken Vows | Stuart Chase | Television movie |
1987 | Spenser: For Hire | Doggie Thorpe | Episode: "One for my Daughter" |
1988 | The Equalizer | Phillip Borchek | Episode: "Sea of Fire" |
1988–91 | The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd | Moss Goodman | 20 episodes |
1989 | Wiseguy | Matthew Stemkowsky | 4 episodes |
1989 | Day One | J. Robert Oppenheimer | Television movie |
1990 | Heat Wave | Bill Thomas | Television movie |
1990 | Judgment | Father Frank Aubert | Television movie |
1991 | Son of the Morning Star | Capt. Frederick W. Benteen | Television movie |
1991 | Without Warning: The James Brady Story | Doctor Art Kobrine | Television movie |
1992 | O Pioneers! | Carl Linstrum | Television movie |
1994 | April One | John McCowan | Television movie |
1996 | Beyond the Call | Russell Cates | Television movie |
1997 | In the Gloaming | Martin | Television movie |
1998 | Evidence of Blood | Jackson Kinley | Television movie |
2000 | Freedom Song | Peter Crowley | Television film |
2000 | The Miracle Worker | Captain Keller | Television film |
2001 | Big Apple | FBI Agent Will Preecher | 8 episodes |
2002 | Lathe of Heaven | Mannie | Television movie |
2002 | Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story | Jack Hoschouer | Television movie |
2004 | The Sopranos | Robert Wegler
|
3 episodes |
2004 | Paradise | Reverend Bobby Paradise | Television movie |
2008 | The Trials of Oppenheimer | J. Robert Oppenheimer | BBC drama-documentary |
2008 | Monk | Patrick Kloster | Episode: "Mr. Monk and the Genius" |
2010 | Temple Grandin | Dr. Carlock | HBO Television movie |
2010 | House | Nash | Episode: " Lockdown "
|
2011–12 | Alphas | Dr. Lee Rosen | 24 episodes |
2012 | Hemingway & Gellhorn | John Dos Passos | HBO Television movie |
2015–16 | The Blacklist
|
Peter Kotsiopulos (aka The Director) | 12 episodes |
2015–17 | Z: The Beginning of Everything | Judge Anthony Sayre | 5 episodes |
2015 | Axe Cop | Extincter | Voice Episode: "Night Mission: The Extincter" |
2017–19 | Billions | "Black Jack" Foley | 8 episodes |
2018 | McMafia | Semiyon Kleiman[31] | Miniseries; 7 episodes |
2018–19 | The Expanse | Klaes Ashford | 13 episodes |
2018 | My Dinner with Hervé | Marty Rothstein | Television movie |
2020 | Interrogation | Henry Fisher | 10 episodes |
Theatre
Year | Title | Role | Playwright | Venue |
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1981 | Einstein and the Polar Bear | Bobby Bullins | Tom Griffin | Cort Theatre , Broadway debut
|
1997 | The Three Sisters |
Vershinin | Anton Chekov |
Roundabout Theatre Company, Broadway |
2001 | Dance of Death |
Kurt | August Strindberg | Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway |
2003 | Salome | Jokanaan | Oscar Wilde | Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway |
2012 | The Heiress | Dr. Austin Sloper | Augustus & Ruth Goetz | Walter Kerr Theater , Broadway
|
Music videos
Year | Title | Artist | Notes |
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2018 | "Oh Baby" | LCD Soundsystem |
Awards and nominations
References
- National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. Retrieved October 5, 2017.
- Cleveland.com. Retrieved January 2, 2023.
- ^ Pine, Dan (July 13, 2022). "'Remember This': David Strathairn delivers 'tour de force' performance – J." J. Archived from the original on June 4, 2023. Retrieved February 29, 2024.
- ^ "Secret Scottish Roots Of Best Actor Nominee". The Sunday Mail. August 11, 2009. Retrieved July 10, 2011.
- ^ "David Strathairn Finds the Spotlight". BBC News. January 27, 2006. Retrieved July 10, 2011.
- ^ "Hawaii, Marriages, 1826-1922".FamilySearch.org. Retrieved on July 30, 2012.
- ^ Examiner |, James Ambroff-Tahan | Special to the (July 18, 2022). "S.F. native David Strathairn plays Jan Karski in "Remember This"". San Francisco Examiner. Archived from the original on July 22, 2022. Retrieved February 29, 2024.
- ^ Crean, Ellen (February 16, 2006). "The Nominees: David Strathairn - CBS News". www.cbsnews.com. Archived from the original on February 29, 2024. Retrieved February 29, 2024.
- ^ "Charlie Rose interview, 1999".YouTube.com. Retrieved on Dec. 19, 2023.
- ^ Full biography of "David Strathairn", Yahoo! Movies, Copyright 2007, accessed August 7, 2007.
- ^ "The Nominees: David Strathairn". CBS News. March 1, 2006.
- ^ "History of the Bristol Riverside Theatre". Archived from the original on August 7, 2008.
- ^ "A 'Good Luck' Charm in Race For Congress". NY Daily News. October 3, 2006. Retrieved October 9, 2011.
- ^ [1] Archived May 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "David Strathairn to Headline Syfy's Alpha". TVGuide.com.
- ^ "David Strathairn Joins The Expanse Season 3". Syfy. Retrieved May 26, 2018.
- ^ Petski, Denise (July 14, 2017). "'The Expanse': David Strathairn Cast in Key Role in Syfy Space Drama Series". Deadline. Retrieved May 26, 2018.
- ^ Performance revs. by Susan Hollis Merritt, "The Birthday Party" (CSC Repertory Theatre, New York, April 17, 1988, April 12, 1988 – May 22, 1988) and Bernard Dukore, "The Birthday Party" (CSC Repertory Theatre, New York, April–May 1988), The Pinter Review 2.1 (1988): 66–70; 71–73. (Cover photograph features Strathairn in his role as Stanley.)
- ^ 1989 CSC production, HaroldPinter.org (official site), accessed August 7, 2007.
- ^ Susan Hollis Merritt, "A Conversation with Carey Perloff, Bill Moor, Peter Riegert, Jean Stapleton, and David Strathairn: After Matinee of Mountain Language and The Birthday Party by CSC Repertory Ltd., Bruno's, New York, Nov. 12, 1989", The Pinter Review: Annual Essays 1989 (TPR) (Tampa: U of Tampa P, 1989) 59–84 (interview); cf. performance rev. by Francis Gillen, "Mountain Language, The Birthday Party" TPR 93–97. (Cover photograph features Strathairn and Stapleton in their roles as a prison Officer and the Elderly Woman in Mountain Language; his other role, the Prisoner, is the Elderly Woman's son.)
- ^ "David Strathairn Biography (1949-)". www.filmreference.com. Retrieved May 29, 2021.
- ^ Performance revs. by Katherine H. Burkman, "Ashes to Ashes in New York: Roundabout Theatre Company at the Gramercy Theatre, March 30, 1999" and by Susan Hollis Merritt, "Ashes to Ashes in New York: Roundabout Theatre Company, Gramercy Theatre, New York, April 3, 1999", The Pinter Review: Collected Essays 1997 and 1998 (Tampa: U of Tampa P, 1999) 154-59.
- ^ "People's Light Presents an Elegant Production of THE CHERRY ORCHARD - Theatre Sensation". www.theatresensation.com. Retrieved January 8, 2019.
- ^ "Season Archive - People's Light". www.peopleslight.org. Retrieved January 8, 2019.
- ^ "It Can't Happen Here". Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Archived from the original on October 30, 2020. Retrieved October 27, 2020.
- ^ "Review: In 'Remember This' at Chicago Shakes, David Strathairn tells a devastating story of the man who warned the Allies of the Holocaust". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved November 5, 2021.
- ^ Greeley Tribune (2008). Obama uses language of hope, calls for action Archived December 7, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved August 29, 2008.
- ^ Fernandez, Alexia (April 7, 2020). "Meryl Streep's Daughter Grace Gummer Files for Divorce from Musician Tay Strathairn". People. Retrieved April 8, 2020.
- ^ Roach, Pemberton. "Dawes Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved April 8, 2020.
- ^ McNary, Dave (June 30, 2016). "Brenton Thwaites, David Strathairn Starring in 'An Interview with God'". Variety. Retrieved January 8, 2019.
- ^ "Further casting announced for epic new BBC One drama McMafia". BBC. November 15, 2016.
External links
- David Strathairn at IMDb
- David Strathairn at the Internet Broadway Database
- David Strathairn at the Internet Off-Broadway Database