
John Lithgow
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Biography
John Arthur Lithgow (born October 19, 1945) is an American actor. He studied at Harvard University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art before becoming known for his diverse work on stage and screen. He has received numerous accolades, including six Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Tony Awards, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, four Grammy Awards, four Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Laurence Olivier Award.
Lithgow won two Tony Awards, his first for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his Broadway debut in The Changing Room (1972) and his second for Best Actor in a Musical for the musical Sweet Smell of Success (2002). He was Tony-nominated for Requiem for a Heavyweight (1985), M. Butterfly (1988), and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2005). He has acted in the plays The Columnist (2012), A Delicate Balance (2014), and Hillary and Clinton (2019). He portrayed Roald Dahl in the play Giant on the West End, for which he was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Actor.
He starred as Dick Solomon in the television sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996–2001), winning three Primetime Emmy Awards for Best Actor in a Comedy Series. He received further Primetime Emmy Awards for his performances as Arthur Mitchell in the drama Dexter (2009) and as Winston Churchill in the Netflix drama The Crown (2016–2019). He also starred in HBO's Perry Mason (2020) and FX's The Old Man (2022).
On film, he has received two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor nominations for his roles as a transsexual ex-football player in The World According to Garp (1982) and a lonely banker in Terms of Endearment (1983). He also acted in All That Jazz (1979), Blow Out (1981), Footloose (1984), Harry and the Hendersons (1987), A Civil Action (1998), Shrek (2001), Kinsey (2004), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), Love Is Strange (2014), Interstellar (2014), Late Night (2019), Bombshell (2019), Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), and Conclave (2024).
Known For

The Oscars

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Daily Show

The Simpsons

The One Show

How I Met Your Mother

Tony Awards

Amazing Stories

Golden Globe Awards

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

The Early Show

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Finding Your Roots

The Graham Norton Show

Frasier

The Colbert Report

Today

Tales from the Crypt

Faerie Tale Theatre

E! Live from the Red Carpet

Dexter: New Blood

James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction

30 Rock

Cosby

The Apprentice: Martha Stewart

Dexter: Resurrection

SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night

The Bubble

Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic

The Crown

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

Dexter

All That Jazz

Dexter

Pitch Perfect 3

Dreamgirls

Prohibition

Miss Sloane

Memphis Belle

The Pelican Brief

Shrek: Once Upon a Time

Late Night

Spellbound

Interstellar

Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party

The Tuskegee Airmen

A Civil Action

The Campaign

I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Perry Mason

Killers of the Flower Moon

The Accountant

Terms of Endearment

Confessions of a Shopaholic

Once Upon a Time in Wonderland

Sharper

Orange County

The Day After

Rugrats in Paris: The Movie

World War II: When Lions Roared

Bombshell

Shrek

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Daddy's Home 2

Leap Year

Conclave

This Is 40

The Glitter Dome

Twenty Good Years

Footloose

Ultra City Smiths

Saturday Night Live

Ricochet

The Rule of Jenny Pen

2010

Distant Thunder

Cliffhanger

The Old Man

Trial & Error

Harry and the Hendersons

Love, Cheat & Steal

Pet Sematary: The Tale of Timmy Baterman

My Brother's Keeper

3rd Rock from the Sun

Harry Potter

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
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