
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

Saturday Night Live

Hallmark Hall of Fame

The Oscars

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

The Daily Show

The Simpsons

The One Show

How I Met Your Mother

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Tony Awards

Golden Globe Awards

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

The Early Show

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Finding Your Roots

The Graham Norton Show

Frasier

The Colbert Report

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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

Amazing Stories

The Crown

SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night

The Bubble

Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic

Dexter

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

Pitch Perfect 3

Dreamgirls

Prohibition

Memphis Belle

Miss Sloane

All That Jazz

Shrek: Once Upon a Time

The Pelican Brief

Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party

Spellbound

Late Night

Interstellar

The Tuskegee Airmen

Perry Mason

The Campaign

A Civil Action

I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can

Killers of the Flower Moon

Confessions of a Shopaholic

Once Upon a Time in Wonderland

The Accountant

Terms of Endearment

World War II: When Lions Roared

Rugrats in Paris: The Movie

Sharper

The Day After

Orange County

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Bombshell

Leap Year

Daddy's Home 2

Shrek

Twenty Good Years

Footloose

Conclave

Ultra City Smiths

The Glitter Dome

This Is 40

Distant Thunder

Trial & Error

The Old Man

Cliffhanger

The Rule of Jenny Pen

Ricochet

2010

Love, Cheat & Steal

My Brother's Keeper

3rd Rock from the Sun

Pet Sematary: The Tale of Timmy Baterman

Harry Potter

Harry and the Hendersons

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
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