David Strathairn Highlights

  • 2009: Will co-star in Roundabout Theatre Company’s upcoming Broadway production of Samuel Beckett’s "Waiting for Godot"
  • 2008: Played the father in the fantasy film, "The Spiderwick Chronicles"
  • 2007: Co-starred in the dramatic thriller, "Fracture" as the district attorney opposite Anthony Hopkins
  • 2007: Played the leader of a secret operation who’s mission is to hunt down Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) in "The Bourne Ultimatum"
  • 2006: Cast in the HBO original film, "The Notorious Bettie Page" starring Gretchen Mol as the 1950's pin-up model
  • 2005: Portrayed journalist Edward R. Murrow, who scrutinized Sen. Joseph McCarthy's communist witch hunt in George Clooney's "Good Night, and Good Luck"; earned Oscar, Independent Spirit Award, Golden Globe and SAG nominations for Best Actor
  • 2002: Was featured in the Sundance-screened "Blue Car"
  • 2001: Had regular role on the short-lived CBS police drama "Big Apple"
  • 2001: Returned to Broadway in support of Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren in "The Dance of Death"
  • 2000: Featured as a photojournalist who disappears in the former Yugoslavia in the festival-screened drama "Harrison's Flowers"
  • 2000: Played a mysterious man who meets an equally odd woman (played by Kyra Sedgwick) on a plane in Craig Lucas' stage play "Stranger"
  • 2000: Played Helen Keller's father in the ABC remake of "The Miracle Worker"
  • 1999: Portrayed Theseus in Michael Hoffman's adaptation of "William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream"
  • 1999: Gave an effective performance as Sigourney Weaver's farmer husband in "A Map of the World"
  • 1999: Reunited with Sayles to play a fisherman who romances a lounge singer (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) in "Limbo"
  • 1998: Cast as the Reverend Russell in "Simon Birch"
  • 1997: Appeared as the wealthy procurer Pierce Patchett in "L.A. Confidential"
  • 1997: Played the emotionally remote father of a son coping with AIDS in "In the Gloaming" (HBO); helmed by Christopher Reeve
  • 1997: Was part of the all-star cast of the Roundabout Theater's revival of "Three Sisters"
  • 1995: Reunited with Jessica Lange for "Losing Isaiah"
  • 1994: Acted opposite Meryl Streep in "The River Wild"
  • 1994: Starred alongside Stockard Channing in the Lincoln Center production of Tom Stoppard's play "Hapgood"
  • 1993: Portrayed Tom Cruise's jailbird brother in the film adaptation of John Grisham's novel "The Firm"
  • 1993: Appeared in the TNT adaptation of Arthur Miller's stage play "The American Clock"
  • 1992: Played dynamic adman in "A League of Their Own"
  • 1992: Played a blind, brilliant computer hacker in "Sneakers" opposite Robert Redford and Sidney Poitier
  • 1992: Starred opposite Jessica Lange in the Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation of "O Pioneers!" (CBS)
  • 1992: Proved himself a capable romantic lead in Sayles' "Passion Fish"
  • 1991: Played the brain surgeon in HBO's appeal for gun control "The James Brady Story"
  • 1991: Portrayed a realistic street person for Sayles' "City of Hope"
  • 1989: Portrayed J Robert Oppenheimer in CBS's "Day One"
  • 1988: Delivered a compelling interpretation of the morally flawed baseball pitcher Eddie Cicotte in Sayles' "Eight Men Out"
  • 1988: TV series debut, "The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd" (NBC/Lifetime) as the Moss, the eccentric bookstore owner
  • 1987: Portrayed the morally upright Constable Hatfield in Sayles' "Matewan"
  • 1985: TV debut, guest appearance on an episode of "Miami Vice" (NBC)
  • 1984: Played an extraterrestrial bounty hunter alongside John Sayles in Sayles' "The Brother From Another Planet"
  • 1983: Appeared as Wesley in Mike Nichols' "Silkwood"
  • 1983: Off-Broadway debut, "Blue Plate Special"
  • 1981: Stage debut in "Einstein and the Polar Bear" at Connecticut's Hartford Stage
  • 1980: Film debut, "The Return of the Secaucus Seven" directed by Sayles
  • Met John Sayles while attending Williams College
  • Worked with Sayles in a summer theater company in New Hampshire
  • Worked in children's theater and summer stock
  • Grew up in the San Francisco Bay area
  • Helped start a children's theater in Glen Falls, New York
  • Toured for six months with Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus as a replacement for half of the Siamese-twin clown

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