Editing David Strathairn (section)

==Career==
Strathairn was nominated for an [[Academy Award]] for his stirring portrayal of [[CBS]] newsman [[Edward R. Murrow]] in the 2005 biographical film ''[[Good Night, and Good Luck]]''. The film explored Murrow's clash with Senator [[Joseph McCarthy]] over McCarthy's [[Second Red Scare|Communist witch-hunts]] in the 1950s. Strathairn also received Best Actor [[Golden Globe]] and [[Screen Actors Guild]] (SAG) nominations for his performance. In 2010, he won the [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie]] for his portrayal of Dr. Carlock in the HBO television film [[Temple Grandin (film)|''Temple Grandin'']]. For that role, he also won the [[Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film]] and was nominated for a [[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film]].

Other notable film roles include his portrayals of the title character in ''[[Harrison's Flowers (film)|Harrison's Flowers]]'' (2000); Col. Craig Harrington in ''Memphis Belle'' (1990); Whistler, the wisecracking blind techie, in ''[[Sneakers (1992 film)|Sneakers]]'' (1992); convict Ray McDeere in the legal thriller ''[[The Firm (1993 film)|The Firm]]'' (1993); abusive husband Joe St. George in ''[[Dolores Claiborne (film)|Dolores Claiborne]]'' (1995); Pierce Patchett, a millionaire involved in the seedy side of 1950s Los Angeles in ''[[L.A. Confidential (film)|L.A. Confidential]]'' (1997); [[Theseus]], Duke of Athens, in the [[A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999 film)|1999 version]] of ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]''; and baseball player [[Eddie Cicotte]] in ''[[Eight Men Out]]'' (1988).

Strathairn is a [[character actor]], appearing in supporting roles in many independent and Hollywood films. In this capacity, he has co-starred in ''[[Twisted (2004 film)|Twisted]]'' as a psychiatrist; in ''[[The River Wild]]'' as a husband; and in ''[[Blue Car]]'' as a teacher.

He has worked with his [[Williams College]] classmate and director [[John Sayles]]. He made his film debut in ''[[Return of the Secaucus 7]]'', and worked in the films ''[[Passion Fish]]'', ''[[Matewan]]'', ''[[Limbo (1999 film)|Limbo]]'' and ''[[City of Hope (1991 film)|City of Hope]]'', for which he won the [[Independent Spirit Award]]. Alongside Sayles, he played one of the "men in black" in the 1983 film ''[[The Brother from Another Planet]]''. Strathairn created the role of [[Edwin Booth]] with [[Maryann Plunkett]] in a workshop production of ''Booth! A House Divided'', by W. Stuart McDowell, at [[The Players (club)|The Players]] in New York City.<ref>{{Cite web |title=History of the Bristol Riverside Theatre |url=http://www.brtstage.org/history2.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080807162401/http://www.brtstage.org/history2.html |archive-date=August 7, 2008}}</ref>

Strathairn's television work also includes a wide range of roles: Moss, the bookselling nebbish on the critically acclaimed ''[[The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd]]''; Captain Keller, the father of [[Helen Keller]] in the 2000 remake of ''[[The Miracle Worker]]''; [[Frederick Benteen|Capt. Frederick Benteen]], a U.S. 7th Cavalry officer under [[George Armstrong Custer|General Custer's]] command in ''[[Son of the Morning Star (film)|Son of the Morning Star]]''; and a far-out (both figuratively and literally) televangelist in ''Paradise'', the pilot episode for a TV series on [[Showtime (TV network)|Showtime]] that was not successful. Strathairn had a recurring role on the hit television drama ''[[The Sopranos]]''. Strathairn starred in the ''[[Miami Vice]]'' episode "Out Where the Buses Don't Run."

Strathairn appeared in ''[[We Are Marshall]]'', a 2006 film about the rebirth of [[Marshall University]]'s football program after the 1970 plane crash that killed most of the team's members; and ''[[Cold Souls]]'', starring [[Paul Giamatti]] as a fictionalized version of himself, who enlists a company's services to deep freeze his soul, directed by [[Sophie Barthes]]. In 2006 he did a campaign ad for then congressional candidate (now Senator) [[Kirsten Gillibrand]]. He reprised his role as Edward R. Murrow in a speech similar to the one from ''[[Good Night, and Good Luck]]'', but was altered to reference Gillibrand's opponent John Sweeney.<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 3, 2006 |title=A 'Good Luck' Charm in Race For Congress |url=http://articles.nydailynews.com/2006-10-03/gossip/18343674_1_kirsten-gillibrand-laura-bush-bae-systems |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120714080733/http://articles.nydailynews.com/2006-10-03/gossip/18343674_1_kirsten-gillibrand-laura-bush-bae-systems |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 14, 2012 |access-date=October 9, 2011 |website=NY Daily News}}</ref>

Strathairn plays the lead role in the 2007 independent film, ''[[Steel Toes]]'', a film by [[David Gow]] (writer/co-director/producer) and Mark Adam (co-director/DOP/editor). The film is based on Gow's stage play ''Cherry Docs'', in which Strathairn starred for its American premiere at the [[Wilma Theater (Philadelphia)|Wilma Theatre]] in Philadelphia.

He played a role in [[Paramount Pictures]]' children's film ''[[The Spiderwick Chronicles (film)|The Spiderwick Chronicles]]'' (2008) as Arthur Spiderwick. Strathairn appeared in the ''American Experience'' PBS anthology series documentary, ''The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer'', a biography of the physicist. He first played Oppenheimer in the 1989 CBS TV movie ''[[Day One (1989 film)|Day One]]''. He plays William Flynn, an FBI agent dealing with anarchism in 1920s New York City, in ''No God, No Master''.

In 2009, Strathairn performed in ''[[The People Speak (film)|The People Speak]]'', a documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans. It was adapted from the historian [[Howard Zinn]]'s ''[[A People's History of the United States]]''.<ref>[http://www.thepeoplespeak.com/pages/credits/] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100513003536/http://www.thepeoplespeak.com/pages/credits/|date=May 13, 2010}}</ref>

He starred as Dr. Lee Rosen on [[Syfy]]'s series ''[[Alphas]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=David Strathairn to Headline Syfy's Alpha |url=https://www.tvguide.com/News/David-Strathairn-Alphas-1020196.aspx |publisher=TVGuide.com}}</ref>

In 2018–19, Strathairn appeared on the third and fourth seasons of SyFy's ''[[The Expanse (TV series)|The Expanse]]''<ref>{{Cite news |title=David Strathairn Joins The Expanse Season 3 |language=en |work=Syfy |url=https://www.syfy.com/theexpanse/blog/david-strathairn-joins-the-expanse-season-3 |access-date=May 26, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Petski |first=Denise |date=July 14, 2017 |title='The Expanse': David Strathairn Cast in Key Role in Syfy Space Drama Series |language=en-US |work=Deadline |url=https://deadline.com/2017/07/the-expanse-david-strathairn-cast-syfy-space-drama-series-1202129079/ |access-date=May 26, 2018}}</ref> as Klaes Ashford.

In 2020, Strathairn was one of the few genuine actors in the Oscar-winner ''[[Nomadland (film)|Nomadland]]'', directed by [[Chloé Zhao]]. David appears alongside his son Tay, the first time they have acted together on screen since 1988's ''Eight Men Out'' when Tay was just eight years old.

Strathairn stars in the 2023 film ''[[Remember This (film)|Remember This]]'', based on the stage play about the life of Polish diplomat and war hero [[Jan Karski]] who brought evidence of the Holocaust to Western governments during WW2. The film is executive-produced by Eva Anisko and directed by Jeff Hutchens and Derek Goldman.

===Theater===
Strathairn is also a stage actor and has performed over 30 theatrical roles. He performed several roles in stage plays by [[Harold Pinter]]. He played Stanley in two consecutive New York [[Classic Stage Company]] (CSC) productions of Pinter's 1957 play ''[[The Birthday Party (play)|The Birthday Party]]'', directed by [[Carey Perloff]] (since 1992 artistic director of the [[American Conservatory Theater]]), in 1988<ref name="BP88">Performance revs. by Susan Hollis Merritt, "The Birthday Party" ([[Classic Stage Company|CSC]] Repertory Theatre, New York, April 17, 1988, April 12, 1988 – May 22, 1988) and Bernard Dukore, "The Birthday Party" (CSC Repertory Theatre, New York, April–May 1988), ''The Pinter Review'' 2.1 (1988): 66–70; 71–73. (Cover photograph features Strathairn in his role as Stanley.)</ref> and 1989;<ref name="BP89">[http://www.haroldpinter.org/plays/frn_bdayparty_us89.shtml 1989 CSC production], ''HaroldPinter.org'' (official site), accessed August 7, 2007.</ref> the 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'');<ref name="TPRinterv">Susan Hollis Merritt, "A Conversation with [[Carey Perloff]], Bill Moor, [[Peter Riegert]], [[Jean Stapleton]], and David Strathairn: After Matinee of ''[[Mountain Language]]'' and ''[[The Birthday Party (play)|The Birthday Party]]'' by [[Classic Stage Company|CSC]] Repertory Ltd., Bruno's, New York, Nov. 12, 1989", ''The Pinter Review: Annual Essays 1989'' (TPR) (Tampa: U of Tampa P, 1989) 59–84 (interview); cf. performance rev. by Francis Gillen, "[[Mountain Language]], [[The Birthday Party (play)|The Birthday Party]]" ''TPR'' 93–97. (Cover photograph features Strathairn and Stapleton in their roles as a prison Officer and the Elderly Woman in ''Mountain Language''; his other role, the Prisoner, is the Elderly Woman's son.)</ref> [[Edwin Booth]] in a workshop production by W. Stuart McDowell at [[The Players (club)|The Players]] in 1989; Kerner, in [[Tom Stoppard]]'s ''[[Hapgood (play)|Hapgood]]'' (1994); and Devlin, opposite [[Lindsay Duncan]]'s Rebecca, in Pinter's 1996 two-hander ''[[Ashes to Ashes (play)|Ashes to Ashes]]'' in the 1999 New York premiere by the [[Roundabout Theatre Company]].<ref name="filmref">{{Cite web |title=David Strathairn Biography (1949-) |url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/85/David-Strathairn.html |access-date=May 29, 2021 |website=www.filmreference.com}}</ref><ref name="AANY">Performance revs. by Katherine H. Burkman, "''[[Ashes to Ashes (play)|Ashes to Ashes]]'' in New York: [[Roundabout Theatre Company]] at the Gramercy Theatre, March 30, 1999" and by Susan Hollis Merritt, "''Ashes to Ashes'' in New York: Roundabout Theatre Company, Gramercy Theatre, New York, April 3, 1999", ''The Pinter Review: Collected Essays 1997 and 1998'' (Tampa: U of Tampa P, 1999) 154-59.</ref>

In 2015, Strathairn appeared in Anton Chekhov's ''[[The Cherry Orchard]]'' with Mary McDonnell at People's Light theater in Malvern, Pennsylvania.<ref>{{Cite web |title=People's Light Presents an Elegant Production of THE CHERRY ORCHARD – Theatre Sensation |url=http://www.theatresensation.com/index.cfm/reviews/peoples-light-presents-an-elegant-production-of-the-cherry-orchard/ |access-date=January 8, 2019 |website=www.theatresensation.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Season Archive – People's Light |url=https://www.peopleslight.org/whats-on/archive/?s=1443 |access-date=January 8, 2019 |website=www.peopleslight.org}}</ref> He lent his voice talents to an adaptation in the form of a radio play of [[Sinclair Lewis]]' ''[[It Can't Happen Here]]'' by the [[Berkeley Repertory Theatre]] in October 2020.<ref>{{Cite web |title=It Can't Happen Here |url=https://berkeleyrep.org/season/2021/itcanthappenhere.asp |access-date=October 27, 2020 |publisher=Berkeley Repertory Theatre |archive-date=October 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030221406/https://www.berkeleyrep.org/season/2021/itcanthappenhere.asp |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Strathairn plays [[Jan Karski]] in the one-man play ''Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski'', written by Clark Young and Derek Goldman. The play is an original production by The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown University. In 2021, Strathairn garnered critical acclaim for a production of ''Remember This'' at the [[Chicago Shakespeare Theater]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Review: In 'Remember This' at Chicago Shakes, David Strathairn tells a devastating story of the man who warned the Allies of the Holocaust |date=November 5, 2021 |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/reviews/ct-ent-remember-this-review-chicago-shakes-20211105-zm3n5mefazhopg6dfmpl3ylsb4-story.html |access-date=November 5, 2021 |work=[[Chicago Tribune]]}}</ref>

Strathairn narrated a biographical video to introduce [[Barack Obama]] before his acceptance speech at the [[2008 Democratic National Convention]].<ref>Greeley Tribune (2008). [http://www.greeleytribune.com/article/20080829/NEWS/108299989/1051/ENTERTAIN&parentprofile=-1 Obama uses language of hope, calls for action] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081207074055/http://www.greeleytribune.com/article/20080829/NEWS/108299989/1051/ENTERTAIN%26parentprofile%3D-1 |date=December 7, 2008 }}. Retrieved August 29, 2008.</ref>