Editing David Strathairn (section)

==Early life and education==
Strathairn was born in San Francisco, California.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Pine |first=Dan |date=2022-07-13 |title='Remember This': David Strathairn delivers 'tour de force' performance – J. |url=https://jweekly.com/2022/07/13/s-f-jewish-film-fest-david-strathairn-delivers-tour-de-force-performance-in-austere-remember-this/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604205622/https://jweekly.com/2022/07/13/s-f-jewish-film-fest-david-strathairn-delivers-tour-de-force-performance-in-austere-remember-this/ |archive-date=June 4, 2023 |access-date=2024-02-29 |work=J. |language=en-US}}</ref> He is of [[Scottish people|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.<ref>{{Cite news |date=August 11, 2009 |title=Secret Scottish Roots Of Best Actor Nominee |work=[[Sunday Mail (Scotland)|The Sunday Mail]] |url=http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/lifestyle/features/tm_objectid=16749011&method=full&siteid=64736&headline=secret-scottish-roots-of-best-actor-nominee-david-name_page.html |accessdate=July 10, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=January 27, 2006 |title=David Strathairn Finds the Spotlight |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4607732.stm |website=[[BBC News]] |accessdate=July 10, 2011}}</ref><ref>[https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FW89-GZN "Hawaii, Marriages, 1826-1922"].FamilySearch.org. Retrieved on July 30, 2012.</ref> Strathairn attended [[Redwood High School (Larkspur, California)|Redwood High School]] in [[Larkspur, California]].<ref>{{Cite web |author=James Ambroff-Tahan |date=2022-07-18 |title=S.F. native David Strathairn plays Jan Karski in "Remember This" |url=https://www.sfexaminer.com/culture/s-f-native-david-strathairn-plays-jan-karski-in-remember-this/article_a9b5af54-06ed-11ed-a021-b38450dfb30c.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220722112830/https://www.sfexaminer.com/culture/s-f-native-david-strathairn-plays-jan-karski-in-remember-this/article_a9b5af54-06ed-11ed-a021-b38450dfb30c.html |archive-date=July 22, 2022 |access-date=2024-02-29 |website=San Francisco Examiner |language=en}}</ref> He graduated from [[Williams College]] in [[Williamstown, Massachusetts]], in 1970.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Crean |first=Ellen |date=2006-02-16 |title=The Nominees: David Strathairn – CBS News |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-nominees-david-strathairn-16-02-2006/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240229233241/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-nominees-david-strathairn-16-02-2006/ |archive-date=February 29, 2024 |access-date=2024-02-29 |website=www.cbsnews.com |language=en-US}}</ref> At Williams, he met fellow actor [[Gordon Clapp]]; and (after graduation) another Williams alumnus, director [[John Sayles]],<ref>{{Cite news|title=Charlie Rose interview, 1999|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhNRmE6djho&t=354s}}YouTube.com. Retrieved on Dec. 19, 2023.</ref> with whom he has collaborated on a number of projects.

He studied [[clown]]ing at the [[Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College]] in [[Venice, Florida]],<ref name="Yahoobio">Full biography of [https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800019124/bio "David Strathairn"], ''[[Yahoo!]] Movies'', Copyright 2007, accessed August 7, 2007.</ref> and briefly worked as a [[clown]] in a traveling [[circus]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=March 1, 2006 |title=The Nominees: David Strathairn |work=[[CBS News]] |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-nominees-david-strathairn-01-03-2006/}}</ref>