John Lithgow
Biography
John Arthur Lithgow 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).
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1945-10-19
Place of birth
Rochester, New York, USA
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Cast
Shrek
2001
7.75
Footloose
1984
6.68
Sharper
2023
6.90
Confessions of a Shopaholic
2009
6.49
2010
1984
6.60
Obsession
1976
6.60
The Manhattan Project
1986
6.20
Terms of Endearment
1983
7.12
Kinsey
2004
6.62
The World According to Garp
1982
6.70
Blow Out
1981
7.37
The Day After
1983
6.75
The Tuskegee Airmen
1995
7.10
Give My Regards to Broadway
2020
0.00
Leap Year
2010
6.90
The Ghost of Lord Farquaad
2003
5.96
Harry and the Hendersons
1987
6.12
A Civil Action
1998
6.45
Ricochet
1991
6.10
Bark, George
2003
0.00
The Pelican Brief
1993
6.59
Cliffhanger
1993
6.51
Santa Claus: The Movie
1985
6.29
A Good Man in Africa
1994
5.03
Inside 'Interstellar'
2015
6.90
Raising Cain
1992
6.10
The Big Fix
1978
5.70
The Wrong Man
1993
5.11
Dogs and More Dogs
2004
5.20
Officer Buckle and Gloria
1997
7.00
Princess Caraboo
1994
5.40
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
2000
6.64
All That Jazz
1979
7.49
Homegrown
1998
5.59
Silent Fall
1994
5.20
They All Saw a Cat
2017
0.00
Casting By
2012
7.05
Resting Place
1986
6.10
Mesmerized
1985
4.90
Love, Cheat & Steal
1993
4.40
Hollow Point
1996
5.10
Rich Kids
1979
5.00
Projections of America
2015
5.00
The Campaign
2012
5.83
This Is 40
2012
5.90
Out Cold
1989
6.07
Chez Bob
2022
0.00
Car of the Future
2008
6.00
The Bubble
2022
4.62
Redwood Curtain
1995
5.80
Interstellar
2014
8.46
95 Worlds and Counting
2000
0.00
Don Quixote
2000
6.20
Distant Thunder
1988
5.60
Cabrini
2024
7.86
Baby Girl Scott
1987
6.00
Love Is Strange
2014
6.34
Orange County
2002
6.03
Spellbound
2024
6.69
My Brother's Keeper
1995
1.00
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011
7.34
Twilight Zone: The Movie
1983
6.50
Memphis Belle
1990
6.70
The Rule of Jenny Pen
2025
6.14
Ivory Hunters
1990
4.20
The Homesman
2014
6.54
Sangre
2006
0.00
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
2023
7.40
Night of 100 Stars III
1990
4.00
Johnny Skidmarks
1998
5.80
The Accountant
2016
7.13
Miracle in a Box: A Piano Reborn
2009
0.00
Lord John
2015
0.00
9 Kisses
2014
6.20
Dreamgirls
2006
6.72
Broadway: The Next Generation
2017
10.00
Best of Enemies
2015
7.18
Shrek Stories
2013
8.10
Timms Valley
2013
6.20
The Oldest Living Graduate
1980
4.00
The Glitter Dome
1984
4.50
Jimpa
2025
0.00
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
1982
6.00
Miss Sloane
2016
7.42
Amazing Stories: The Movie II
1990
0.00
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016
7.25
Beatriz at Dinner
2017
5.80
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
1984
5.00
Daddy's Home 2
2017
6.30
Einstein's Big Idea
2005
7.15
Buckaroo Banzai Declassified
2002
8.40
The Pulitzer At 100
2017
6.00
Pitch Perfect 3
2017
6.52
Secret Service
1977
0.00
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
2018
7.90
Late Night
2019
6.39
Pet Sematary
2019
5.70
Traveling Man
1989
3.30
Bombshell
2019
6.79
The Amazing Bone
1987
0.00
Hickory Dickory Doc
2017
0.00
Not in Front of the Children
1982
6.00
The Tomorrow Man
2019
5.70
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
1993
10.00
Big Blonde
1980
5.00
The Boys
1991
0.00
New Year's Eve
2011
5.89
John Lithgow's Kid-Sized Concert
1990
5.00
Shrek: Once Upon a Time
2011
7.50
Mom, the Wolfman and Me
1980
0.00
American Cinema
1995
0.00
Myths and Hymns
2021
0.00
The Country Girl
1974
0.00
Emily @ the Edge of Chaos
2021
0.00
Killers of the Flower Moon
2023
7.42
On Broadway
2019
8.70
Conclave
2024
7.20
Show of Titles
2021
0.00
2010 : The Odyssey Continues
1984
0.00
