David Strathairn Biography

David Strathairn is an American actor who was born in San Francisco, California as David Russell Strathairn. He became famous in the 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 as well as the Limbo.

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

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

---

10 Quick Facts About David Strathairn

1. Name: David Strathairn
2. Age: 73 years
3. Birthday: 26th January
4. Birth sign: Aquarius
5. Height: 5 feet 11 inches.
6. Nationality: American
7. Occupation: Actor
8. Marital Status: Logan Goodman
9. Famous for: Performing in the films of fellow Williams grad, John Sayles
10. Net Worth: $1 to $50 million

---

David Strathairn Age

Strathairn is 73 years old as of 2022, he was born on 26 January 1949 in San Francisco, California. He celebrates his birthday on January 26 every year, and his birth sign is Aquarius.

David Strathairn Height

Strathairn stands at a height of 5 feet 11 inches.

David Strathairn Education

Strathairn studied at Redwood High School in Larkspur, California, and in the year 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 Family

David was born and raised by Thomas Scott Strathairn, Jr. a physician, and Mary Frances (née Frazier), a nurse in San Francisco, California. He was born alongside two siblings.

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 Strathairn Wife

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

David Strathairn and Logan Goodman

Strathairn is married to Logan Goodman who is a nurse. The couple has They have two sons named Tay Strathairn and Ebberly Strathairn.

David Strathairn Net Worth

Strathairn has an estimated net worth of $8 million dollars as of 2022. This includes his assets, money, and income. His primary source of income is his career as an actor. Through his various sources of income, David has accumulated good fortune but prefers to lead a modest lifestyle.

David Strathairn Measurements and Facts

Here are some interesting facts and body measurements you should know about David Strathairn.

David Strathairn Wiki

• Full Names: David Russell Strathairn
• Popular As: Edward R. Murrow in Good Night as well as Good Luck in the year 2005.
• Gender: Male
• Occupation / Profession: Actor
• Nationality: American
• Race / Ethnicity: White
• Religion: To be updated
• Sexual Orientation: Straight

David Strathairn Birthday

• Age / How Old?: 74 years old as of 2022
• Zodiac Sign: Aquarius
• Date of Birth: 26 January 1949
• Place of Birth: San Francisco, California
• Birthday: January 26

David Strathairn Body Measurements

• Body Measurements: Not Known
• Height / How Tall?: 5 feet 11 inches
• Weight: 72 kg
• Eye Color: Dark Brown
• Hair Color: Grey
• Shoe Size: Not Available

David Strathairn Family and Relationship

• Father (Dad): Thomas Scott Strathairn, Jr.
• Mother: Mary Frances (née Frazier)
• Siblings (Brothers and Sisters): Two
• Marital Status: Married
• Wife/Spouse: Married to Logan Goodman
• Dating / Girlfriend: Not Applicable
• Children:  Sons (Tay Strathairn, Ebberly Strathairn) Daughter(s) (Not known)

David Strathairn Net Worth and Salary

• Net Worth: $8 million dollars
• Salary: Under Review
• Source of Income: Actor

David Strathairn The Expanse

In 2018-2019, Strathairn starred in the third and fourth seasons of SyFy’s The Expanse as Klaes Ashford.

David Strathairn Sopranos

Strathairn had a recurring role in the hit television drama The Sopranos. Strathairn appeared in the Miami Vice episode “Out Where the Buses Don’t Run”

David Strathairn Billions

David appeared as “Black Jack” Foley in a 2017-2019 television show called Billions. Billions is an American television drama series created by Brian Koppelman, David Levien, and Andrew Ross Sorkin. The series premiered on Showtime on 17 January 2016 and has produced five complete seasons to date, with the sixth season in suspended production.

David Strathairn Blacklist

In the 2015-2016 television show called “The Blacklist”, David played Peter Kotsiopulos (aka The Director) The Blacklist is an American crime thriller television series that premiered on NBC on 23 September 2013.

David Strathairn Lincoln

David performed a prominent role as Dr. Lee Rosen on the Syfy series Alphas from 2011 to 2012 and played Secretary of State William H. Seward in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln (2012).

David Strathairn Godzilla

In the year 2014, David played Admiral William Stenz in the film Godzilla. Godzilla is a 2014 American monster film directed by Gareth Edwards.

David Strathairn Actor

David is a character actor who 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 played 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

David Strathairn Films

Films From the Year 2010 To 2019

• 2019 – Godzilla: King of the Monsters as Admiral William Stenz
• 2019 – The Gettysburg Address by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 2018 – An Interview with God as The Man

• 2018 – Fast Color as Ellis
• 2017 – Darkest Hour as Franklin D. Roosevelt
• 2017 – November Criminals as Theo Schacht

• 2016 – American Pastoral as Nathan Zuckerman
• 2015 – The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel as Ty Burley
• 2015 – Louder Than Bombs as Richard

• 2015 – The Debt as Nathan
• 2014 – Godzilla as Admiral William Stenz
• 2012 – The Bourne Legacy as Noah Vosen

• 2012 – No God, No Master as William J. Flynn
• 2012 – Lincoln as William Seward
• 2010 – Howl as Ralph McIntosh

• 2010 – The Tempest as Alonzo, King of Naples
• 2010 – The Whistleblower as Peter Ward

Films From the Year 2001 To 2009

• 2009 – The Uninvited as Steven
• 2009 – Cold Souls as Dr. Feinstein
• 2009 – The People Speak – Himself

• 2009 – Odysseus in America as Narration
• 2008 – The Spiderwick Chronicles as Arthur Spiderwick
• 2007 – The Sensation of Sight as Finn

• 2007 – Steel Toes as Danny Dunckelman
• 2007 – Fracture as District Attorney Joe Lobruto
• 2007 – Racing Daylight as Henry Becker/Harry Stokes

• 2007 – The Bourne Ultimatum as Noah Vosen
• 2007 – My Blueberry Nights as Arnie Copeland
• 2007 – Matters of Life and Death as Mr. Jennings

• 2007 – Trumbo as Readings
• 2006 – The Shovel as Paul Mullin
• 2006 – Heavens Fall as Judge James Horton

• 2006 – We Are Marshall as Donald Dedmon
• 2005 – The Notorious Bettie Page as Estes Kefauver
• 2005 – Missing in America as Henry

• 2005 -Good Night, and Good Luck as Edward R. Murrow
• 2004 – Twisted as Dr. Melvin Frank
• 2002 – Speakeasy as Bruce Hickman

• 2002 – Blue Car as Auster
• 2001 – Relative Evil as Dr. Charlie

Films From the Year 1991 To 2000

• 2000 – A Good Baby as Truman Lester
• 2000 – Harrison’s Flowers as Harrison Lloyd
• 1999 – A Midsummer Night’s Dream as Theseus

• 1999 – Limbo as Jumpin Joe Gastineau
• 1999 – A Map of the World as Howard Goodwin
• 1998 – The Climb as Earl Himes

• 1998 – With Friends Like These… as Armand Minetti
• 1998 – Simon Birch as Reverend Russell
• 1998 – Meschugge as Charles Kaminski

• 1997 – Song of Hiawatha as Marcel
• 1997 – L.A. Confidential as Pierce Morehouse Patchett
• 1997 – Bad Manners as Wes Westlund

• 1996 – Mother Night as Lieutenant Bernard B. O’Hare
• 1995 – Losing Isaiah as Charles Lewin
• 1995 – Dolores Claiborne as Joe St. George

• 1995 – Home for the Holidays as Russell Terziak
• 1994 – The River Wild as Tom Hartman
• 1993 – Lost in Yonkers as Johnny

• 1993 – The Firm Ray McDeere
• 1993 – A Dangerous Woman as Getso
• 1992 – Big Girls Don’t Cry… They Get Even as Keith Powers

• 1992 – A League of Their Own as Ira Lowenstein
• 1992 – Bob Roberts as Mack Laflin
• 1992 – Sneakers as Erwin ‘Whistler’ Emory

• 1992 – Passion Fish as Rennie
• 1991 – the City of Hope as Asteroid

Films From the Year 1980 to 1990

• 1990 – Memphis Belle as Colonel Craig Harriman
• 1990 – Judgment as Father Aubert
• 1989 – The Feud as The Stranger

• 1988 – Stars and Bars as Charlie
• 1988 – Call Me as Sam
• 1988 – Eight Men Out as Eddie Cicotte

• 1988 – Dominick and Eugene as Martin Chernak
• 1987 – Matewan as Police Chief Sid Hatfield
• 1986 – At Close Range as Tony Pine

• 1985 – When Nature Calls as Weejun
• 1984 – Iceman as Dr. Singe
• 1984 – The Brother from Another Planet as Man In Black

• 1983 – Lovesick as Marvin Zuckerman
• 1983 – Silkwood as Wesley
• 1980 – Return of the Secaucus 7 as Ron Desjardins

David Strathairn Tv Shows

Tv Shows From the Year 2010 to 2018

• 2018 – McMafia as Semiyon Kleiman
• 2018 – The Expanse as Klaes Ashford
• 2018 – My Dinner with Hervé as Marty Rothstein

• 2017–18 – Billions as Black Jack Foley
• 2015–16 – The Blacklist as Peter Kotsiopulos (aka The Director)
• 2015–17 – Z: The Beginning of Everything as Judge Anthony Sayre

• 2015 – Axe Cop as Extinction
• 2012 – Hemingway & Gellhorn as John Dos Passos
• 2011–12 – Alphas as Dr. Lee Rosen

• 2010 – Temple Grandin as Dr. Carlock
• 2010 – House as Nash

Tv Shows From the Year 1991 To 2008

• 2008 – Monk as Patrick Kloster
• 2004 – The Sopranos as Robert Wegler
• 2004 – Paradise as Reverend Bobby Paradise

• 2002 – Lathe of Heaven as Mannie
• 2002 – Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story as Jack Hoschouer
• 2001 – Big Apple as FBI Agent Will Preacher

• 2000 – Freedom Song as Peter Crowley
• 2000 – The Miracle Worker as Captain Keller
• 1998 – Evidence of Blood as Jackson Kinley

• 1997 – In the Gloaming as Martin
• 1996 – Beyond the Call as Russell Cates
• 1994 – April One as John McCowan

• 1992 – O Pioneers! as Carl Linstrum
• 1991 – Son of the Morning Star as Capt. Frederick W. Benteen
• 1991 – Without Warning: The James Brady Story as Doctor Art Kobrine

Tv Shows From the Year 1984 To 1990

• 1990 – Heat Wave as Bill Thomas
• 1990 – Judgment as Father Frank Aubert
• 1989 – Wiseguy as Matthew Stemkowsky
• 1989 – Day One as J. Robert Oppenheimer

• 1988 – The Equalizer as Phillip Borchek
• 1988–91 – The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd as Moss Goodman
• 1987 – Broken Vows as Stuart Chase

• 1987 – Spenser: For Hire as Doggie Thorpe
• 1985 – Miami Vice as Marty Lang
• 1984 – Search for Tomorrow as Dr. Robert Hand

Frequently Asked Questions About David Strathairn

David Strathairn Contacts

• Instagram
• Twitter
• Facebook
• Youtube
• Tiktok
• Website

Related Biographies.

You may also like to read the Bio, Career, Family, Relationship,  Body measurements, Net worth, Achievements, and more about:

• Adam Davenport
• Amanda Batula
• Matt Meese
• Jade Wu
• Diego Klattenhoff
• David Call
• David Leon
• John David