John Lithgow

Known for ActingBorn 1945-10-19 (age 81)Rochester, New York, USA

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).Read more

Movies & web series

The Apprentice: Martha Stewart

Special Effects: Anything Can Happen

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble

2010 : The Odyssey Continues

The Country Girl

Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love

Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects

On Broadway

Dexter: Resurrection

Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection

Interstellar

Twenty Good Years

VH1 Goes Inside

Buckaroo Banzai Declassified

Officer Buckle and Gloria

The West

The Crown

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Dexter

SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night

American Cinema

Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled

Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

How I Met Your Mother

Shrek Stories

Dexter: New Blood

Mister Rogers: It's You I Like

Finding Harry: The Craft Behind the Magic

Cabrini

The Country Mouse & the City Mouse: A Christmas Tale

Prohibition

Faerie Tale Theatre

The Simpsons

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History

Tales from the Crypt

Shrek

The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts

Secret Service

Frasier

Killers of the Flower Moon

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes

Shrek: Once Upon a Time

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

30 Rock

Miss Sloane

3rd Rock from the Sun

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Einstein's Big Idea