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| Birth Name(s) : David Strathairn |
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Full David Strathairn Biography
David Russell Strathairn (born January 26, 1949) is an Academy Award-nominated American film, television, and stage actor.
Strathairn was born in San Francisco, California. His father was a physician. He is of Scottish ancestry through his paternal grandfather, Thomas Scott Strathairn (a native of Crieff, Perthshire) and Native Hawaiian ancestry through his paternal grandmother, Lei.
Strathairn attended Redwood High School in Larkspur, California and graduated from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts in 1970. He studied at the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College in Venice, Florida and worked as a clown in a traveling circus.
He is married to Logan Goodman Strathairn, a nurse. They have two sons and live in the mid-Hudson Valley area of upstate New York, near Poughkeepsie, about 90 minutes by Metro-North Railroad from New York City. Their son Tay Strathairn, an actor and musician who plays jazz piano, appeared in John Sayles's films Eight Men Out (as "Bucky") and Lone Star (as "Young Sam").
Some of Strathairn's best-known film roles are his portrayals of the title character in Harrison's Flowers (2000), the wisecracking blind techie in Sneakers (1992), Joe St. George in Dolores Claiborne (1995), Theseus in the 1999 version of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and corrupt baseball player Eddie Cicotte in 1988's Eight Men Out. However, he is often seen more as a character actor, often appearing in supporting roles in many independent and Hollywood films. He has co-starred in Twisted as Ashley Judd's psychiatrist, in The River Wild as Meryl Streep's husband, as Tom Cruise's jailbird brother in The Firm, and as Kim Basinger's pimp in L.A. Confidential.
He has worked frequently with director John Sayles, beginning with his film debut Return of the Secaucus 7, and including the films Passion Fish, Matewan, Limbo, Lone Star and City of Hope, for which Strathairn won the Independent Spirit Award. Notably, alongside Sayles, he played one of the Men in Black in Sayles's 1983 film The Brother from Another Planet
Strathairn's television work includes a wide range of roles, including "Moss", the bookselling nebbish on the critically acclaimed The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd; Captain Keller, the father of Helen in the 2000 remake of The Miracle Worker; and a far-out (both figuratively and literally) televangelist in Paradise, the pilot episode for a TV series on Showtime that did not move forward. Strathairn also had a recurring role on the hit TV drama The Sopranos.Strathairn, playing the role of Edward R. Murrow in the 2005 film Good Night, and Good Luck.
Strathairn plays a lead role opposite Matt Damon in the summer 2007 film The Bourne Ultimatum and appears in Paramount Pictures' forthcoming children's film "The Spiderwick Chronicles" (2008) as "Arthur Spiderwick".
He is also an accomplished stage actor and has performed over thirty theatrical roles on stage. Most recently, he performed several roles in stage plays by 2005 Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter. He played Stanley in two consecutive New York Classic Stage Company (CSC) productions of Pinter's 1957 play The Birthday Party, directed by Carey Perloff (since 1992 artistic director of the American Conservatory Theatre), in 1988 and 1989; the dual roles of prison Officer and Prisoner in Pinter's 1989 play Mountain Language (in a double bill with the second CSC Rep production of The Birthday Party); and Devlin, opposite Lindsay Duncan's Rebecca, in Pinter's 1996 two-hander Ashes to Ashes in the 1999 New York premiere by the Roundabout Theatre Company. |
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