
John Lithgow
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Biography
John Arthur Lithgow (/ˈlɪθɡoʊ/ LITH-goh; 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).
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Known For

The Oscars

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Hallmark Hall of Fame

The Daily Show

How I Met Your Mother

The Simpsons

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Tony Awards

Golden Globe Awards

Amazing Stories

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

James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction

30 Rock

Cosby

The Apprentice: Martha Stewart

SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night

The Bubble

Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic

The Crown

Dexter

Pitch Perfect 3

Dreamgirls

Dexter: New Blood

Prohibition

Memphis Belle

Miss Sloane

All That Jazz

The Pelican Brief

Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party

Interstellar

Late Night

Spellbound

The Tuskegee Airmen

The Campaign

I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can

A Civil Action

Killers of the Flower Moon

The Accountant

Terms of Endearment

Once Upon a Time in Wonderland

Perry Mason

Confessions of a Shopaholic

Orange County

Sharper

Rugrats in Paris: The Movie

The Day After

World War II: When Lions Roared

Daddy's Home 2

Bombshell

Leap Year

Shrek

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Ultra City Smiths

Conclave

The Glitter Dome

Twenty Good Years

Footloose

This Is 40

Distant Thunder

The Old Man

2010

Ricochet

Cliffhanger

Trial & Error

Saturday Night Live

3rd Rock from the Sun

Pet Sematary: The Tale of Timmy Baterman

My Brother's Keeper

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Love, Cheat & Steal

Harry Potter

Harry and the Hendersons
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