Actor of The Week: David Strathairn

David Russell Strathairn (/ strəˈθɛərn/; lahir 26 Januari 1949) adalah seorang aktor Amerika. Dia adalah penerima beberapa penghargaan, termasuk Independent Spirit Award, Primetime Emmy Award, dan Volpi Cup, dan telah dinominasikan untuk Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Critics' Choice Award, dua Golden Globe Awards, dan empat Penghargaan SAG.

Strathairn menjadi terkenal pada 1980-an dan 1990-an tampil di film-film sesama lulusan Williams College John Sayles, termasuk Return of the Secaucus 7 (debut layarnya), The Brother from Another Planet, Matewan, City of Hope, Eight Men Out, dan Limbo. Strathairn dinominasikan untuk Academy Award untuk Aktor Terbaik karena memerankan jurnalis Edward R. Murrow dalam Good Night, and Good Luck (2005). Ia juga dikenal karena perannya sebagai Wakil Direktur CIA Noah Vosen dalam film tahun 2007 The Bourne Ultimatum, peran yang ia ulangi dalam The Bourne Legacy tahun 2012. Dia memainkan peran penting sebagai Dr. Lee Rosen di serial Syfy Alphas dari 2011 hingga 2012 dan berperan sebagai Sekretaris Negara William H. Seward di Lincoln (2012) karya Steven Spielberg.

Strathairn memenangkan Emmy dan dinominasikan untuk Golden Globe untuk perannya dalam film TV Temple Grandin (2010). Dia dinominasikan untuk Penghargaan Satelit untuk penampilannya di Nomadland (2020).

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1980	Return of the Secaucus 7	Ron Desjardins
1983	Lovesick	Marvin Zuckerman
1983	Silkwood	Wesley
1984	Iceman	Dr. Singe
1984	The Brother from Another Planet	Man in Black
1985	When Nature Calls	Weejun
1986	At Close Range	Tony Pine
1987	Matewan	Police Chief Sid Hatfield
1988	Stars and Bars	Charlie
1988	Call Me	Sam
1988	Eight Men Out	Eddie Cicotte
1988	Dominick and Eugene	Martin Chernak
1989	The Feud	The Stranger
1990	Memphis Belle	Colonel Craig Harriman
1990	Judgment	Father Frank Aubert
1991	City of Hope	Asteroid	Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male
1992	Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even	Keith Powers
1992	A League of Their Own	Ira Lowenstein
1992	Bob Roberts	Mack Laflin
1992	Sneakers	Erwin 'Whistler' Emory
1992	Passion Fish	Rennie	Nominated – Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male
1993	Lost in Yonkers	Johnny
1993	The Firm	Ray McDeere
1993	A Dangerous Woman	Getso
1994	The River Wild	Tom Hartman
1995	Losing Isaiah	Charles Lewin
1995	Dolores Claiborne	Joe St. George
1995	Home for the Holidays	Russell Terziak
1996	Mother Night	Lieutenant Bernard B. O'Hare
1997	Song of Hiawatha	Marcel
1997	L.A. Confidential	Pierce Morehouse Patchett	Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
1997	Bad Manners	Wes Westlund
1998	The Climb	Earl Himes
1998	With Friends Like These...	Armand Minetti
1998	Simon Birch	Reverend Russell
1998	Meschugge	Charles Kaminski
1998	Evidence of Blood	Jackson Kinley
1999	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Theseus
1999	Limbo	"Jumpin Joe" Gastineau	Nominated – Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead
1999	A Map of the World	Howard Goodwin
2000	A Good Baby	Truman Lester
2000	Harrison's Flowers	Harrison Lloyd
2001	Relative Evil	Dr. Charlie	a.k.a. Ball in the House
2002	Speakeasy	Bruce Hickman
2002	Blue Car	Auster
2004	Twisted	Melvin Frank
2005	The Notorious Bettie Page	Estes Kefauver
2005	Missing in America	Henry
2005	Good Night, and Good Luck	Edward R. Murrow	Volpi Cup for Best Actor Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated – Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Nominated – Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast Nominated – Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Nominated – Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
2006	The Shovel	Paul Mullin	Short film
2006	Heavens Fall	Judge James Horton
2006	We Are Marshall	Donald Dedmon
2007	The Sensation of Sight	Finn	Also producer
2007	Steel Toes	Danny Dunckelman
2007	Fracture	District Attorney Joe Lobruto
2007	Racing Daylight	Henry Becker/Harry Stokes
2007	The Bourne Ultimatum	Noah Vosen
2007	My Blueberry Nights	Arnie Copeland
2007	Matters of Life and Death	Mr. Jennings
2007	Trumbo	Readings
2008	The Spiderwick Chronicles	Arthur Spiderwick
2009	The Uninvited	Steven Ivers
2009	Cold Souls	Dr. Flintstein
2009	The People Speak	Himself	Documentary
2009	Odysseus in America	Narration
2010	Howl	Ralph McIntosh
2010	Temple Grandin	Dr. Carlock	Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
2010	The Tempest	Alonzo, King of Naples
2010	The Whistleblower	Peter Ward
2012	The Bourne Legacy	Noah Vosen
2012	No God, No Master	William J. Flynn
2012	Lincoln	William Seward	Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
2014	Godzilla	Admiral William Stenz
2015	The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel	Ty Burley
2015	Louder Than Bombs	Richard
2015	The Debt	Nathan
2016	American Pastoral	Nathan Zuckerman
2017	Darkest Hour	Franklin D. Roosevelt (voice)
2017	November Criminals	Theo Schacht
2018	An Interview with God[30]	God
2018	Fast Color	Ellis
2018	UFO	Franklin Ahls
2019	Godzilla: King of the Monsters	Admiral William Stenz
2019	The Devil Has a Name	Fred Stern
2020	Walkaway Joe	Joe Haley
2020	Nomadland	David	Nominated – AACTA International Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Nominated – Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated – San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor
2021	Nightmare Alley	Pete Krumbein
2022	Where the Crawdads Sing	Tom Milton	Post-production
TBA	The Gettysburg Address	Ralph Waldo Emerson (voice)	Documentary; post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	Search for Tomorrow	Dr. Robert Hand	4 episodes
1985	Miami Vice	Marty Lang	Episode: "Out Where the Buses Don't Run"
1987	Broken Vows	Stuart Chase	Television movie
1987	Spenser: For Hire	Doggie Thorpe	Episode: "One for my Daughter"
1988	The Equalizer	Phillip Borchek	Episode: "Sea of Fire"
1988–91	The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd	Moss Goodman	20 episodes
1989	Wiseguy	Matthew Stemkowsky	4 episodes
1989	Day One	J. Robert Oppenheimer	Television movie
1990	Heat Wave	Bill Thomas	Television movie
1990	Judgment	Father Frank Aubert	Television movie
1991	Son of the Morning Star	Capt. Frederick W. Benteen	Television movie
1991	Without Warning: The James Brady Story	Doctor Art Kobrine	Television movie
1992	O Pioneers!	Carl Linstrum	Television movie
1994	April One	John McCowan	Television movie
1996	Beyond the Call	Russell Cates	Television movie
1997	In the Gloaming	Martin	Television movie Nominated – CableACE Award for Guest Actor in a Dramatic Special or Series
1998	Evidence of Blood	Jackson Kinley	Television movie
2000	Freedom Song	Peter Crowley	Television film
2000	The Miracle Worker	Captain Keller	Television film
2001	Big Apple	FBI Agent Will Preecher	8 episodes
2002	Lathe of Heaven	Mannie	Television movie
2002	Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story	Jack Hoschouer	Television movie
2004	The Sopranos	Robert Wegler	3 episodes
2004	Paradise	Reverend Bobby Paradise	Television movie
2008	The Trials of Oppenheimer	J. Robert Oppenheimer	BBC drama-documentary
2008	Monk	Patrick Kloster	Episode: "Mr. Monk and the Genius"
2010	Temple Grandin	Dr. Carlock	Television movie Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
2010	House	Nash	Episode: "Lockdown"
2011–12	Alphas	Dr. Lee Rosen	24 episodes
2012	Hemingway & Gellhorn	John Dos Passos	Television movie Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
2015–16	The Blacklist	Peter Kotsiopulos (aka The Director)	12 episodes
2015–17	Z: The Beginning of Everything	Judge Anthony Sayre	5 episodes
2015	Axe Cop	Extincter	Voice Episode: "Night Mission: The Extincter"
2017–19	Billions	"Black Jack" Foley	8 episodes
2018	McMafia	Semiyon Kleiman	Miniseries; 7 episodes
2018–19	The Expanse	Klaes Ashford	13 episodes
2018	My Dinner with Hervé	Marty Rothstein	Television movie
2020	Interrogation	Henry Fisher	10 episodes