David Strathairn

2 Nominations

David Strathairn (born in San Francisco, California, January 26, 1949) was directed by John Sayles in movies like City of Hope (1991), Passion Fish (1992) and Limbo (1999), by Curtis Hanson in L.A. Confidential (1997), by George Clooney in Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), by Paul Greengrass in The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), by Steven Spielberg in Lincoln (2012), by Chloé Zhao in Nomadland (2020) with Frances McDormand, by Guillermo del Toro in Nightmare Alley (2021). He played the attorney defending Daisy Edgar-Jones in Where the Crowdads Sing (2022) directed by Olivia Newman from the 2018 best seller by Delia Owens.

He acted in the TV movies In the Gloaming (1997), Temple Grandin (2010) with Claire Danes, Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012) by Philip Kaufman.

Golden Globe Awards

Awards Database

2011 Nominee

2011 Nominee

Best Supporting Actor - Television
Temple Grandin

2006 Nominee

2006 Nominee

Best Actor - Motion Picture - Drama
Good Night, and Good Luck