David Strathairn

A seasoned actor on and off Broadway, the big screen, and television, David Strathairn, the son of a surgeon, was born in San Francisco. After graduating from Williams College in Massachusetts, he attended Ringling Brothers Clown College in Florida, before launching a successful acting career. Strathairn has appeared in many of his Williams College classmate John Sayles’ features, including his own and Sayles’ directorial debut The Return of Secaucus Seven. Other Sayles features for which Strathairn has starred include Limbo, Matewan, Brother From Another Planet, Eight Men Out, City of Hope, and Passion Fish. Strathairn’s film credits include Mike Nichols’s Silkwood, Stephen Gyllenhaal’s Losing Isaiah, Sydney Pollack’s The Firm, Tim Robbins’s Bob Roberts, Penny Marshall’s A League of Their Own, Taylor Hackford’s Dolores Claiborne, Curtis Hanson’s LA Confidential, and Philip Kaufman’s Twisted. David starred as Edward R. Murrow in Good Night and Good Luck - David won for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for a Golden Globe, Academy Award and a SAG Award for his performance.