John Lithgow
Acting
Born 1945-10-19
Rochester, New York, USA
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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 transgender 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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The Simpsons
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Dexter
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Daily Show
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Saturday Night Live
Frasier
How I Met Your Mother
Conan
Interstellar
The Graham Norton Show
The Colbert Report
The Late Late Show with James Corden
The View
NOVA
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Crown
30 Rock
Golden Globe Awards
Great Performances
Tony Awards
The One Show
Sherri
Shrek
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
3rd Rock from the Sun
Film '72
Dexter: Resurrection
Tales from the Crypt
WIRED's Autocomplete Interviews
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Killers of the Flower Moon
Conclave
Dexter: New Blood
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Amazing Stories
The Oscars
The Tony Danza Show
The Accountant
The Old Man
Perry Mason
Faerie Tale Theatre
This Is 40
Stars in the House
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
Finding Your Roots
Harry Potter
Live from E!
Today
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Pet Sematary
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
Miss Sloane
Cosby
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