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David Strathairn is an American actor. He became fame in 1980s and the 1990s performing in the films of fellow Williams grad, John Sayles. This includes Return of the Secaucus 7 (his screen debut), The Brother from Another Planet, Matewan, City of Hope, Eight Men Out, and Limbo.

He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for portraying journalist Edward R. Murrow in Good Night, and Good Luck (2005). David is well known for his role as CIA Deputy Director, Noah Vosen in the 2007 film The Bourne Ultimatum, a role he reprised in 2012’s The Bourne Legacy.

David from 2011 to 2012 he played a prominent role as Dr. Lee Rosen on the Syfy series, Alphas. He also played Secretary of State, William Henry Seward in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln (2012). David won an Emmy and was nominated for a Golden Globe for his role in the TV film, Temple Grandin (2010).

David Strathairn Age

David was born on January 26, 1949 in San Francisco , California. He is 70 years old as of 2018.

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David  was born in San Francisco, California.  He is the son of Thomas Scott Strathairn, Jr. a physician, and Mary Frances (née Frazier), a nurse. He is  the second of three children.  David is of Scottish descent through his paternal grandfather, Thomas Scott Strathairn, a native of Crieff, and of Native Hawaiian ancestry through his paternal grandmother, Josephine Lei Victoria Alana.

David went to  Redwood High School in Larkspur, California, and in 1970 he graduated from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. At Williams, he met fellow actor Gordon Clapp and director John Sayles, all of whom have collaborated on many projects.

David  studied clowning at the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College in Venice, Florida,  and briefly worked as a clown in a traveling circus.

David Strathairn Wife | David Strathairn Logan Goodman

David married nurse Logan Goodman in 1980. The couple has two sons named Tay Strathairn and Ebberly Strathairn. David’s son, Tay Strathairn, is the keyboard player for the band ‘Dawes’.

Actor David Strathairn

David is a character actor. He has appeared in supporting roles in many independent and Hollywood films. In this capacity, David has co-starred in Twisted as a psychiatrist; in The River Wild as a husband; in Blue Car as a teacher.

David is also a stage actor and has performed over thirty theatrical roles. He performed a number of roles in stage plays by Harold Pinter. David 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 he played 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); Edwin Booth in a workshop production by W. Stuart McDowell at The Players in 1989; Kerner, in Tom Stoppard’s Hapgood (1994); 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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David Strathairn Net Worth

David has an estimated net worth of $8 million dollars.