David Strathairn

Strathairn attended Redwood High School in Larkspur, California, and went on to Williams College, where he met the future filmmaker John Sayles. After graduating in 1971, he worked in regional theater and Off-Broadway while taking small film and television parts. His first notable screen role came in Sayles's low-budget comedy Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980), beginning a collaboration that would span decades.

He became a familiar presence in Sayles's ensemble dramas, including The Brother from Another Planet (1984), Matewan (1987), Eight Men Out (1988), City of Hope (1991), and Passion Fish (1992). On television, he played Moss Goodman in The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd. In the 1990s he broadened his range with The River Wild (1994), Dolores Claiborne (1995), and L.A. Confidential (1997), often playing quietly menacing or morally complicated figures.

His performance as CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow in George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck (2005) earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and won him the Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival. He followed it with parts in The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) and Steven Spielberg's Lincoln (2012), playing Secretary of State William Seward. He won a Primetime Emmy Award for his supporting role in the HBO film Temple Grandin (2010).

Later credits include Chloé Zhao's Nomadland (2020). Strathairn is married to Logan Goodman and has two sons.

David Strathairn was born on January 26, 1949 in San Francisco, California, United States. In Cardology (Destiny Cards), January 26, 1949 corresponds to the Ace of Diamonds, making the Ace of Diamonds his Birth Card.

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