John Lithgow
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
215
Gender
Male
Birthday
1945-10-19 (80 years old)
Place of Birth
Rochester, New York, USA
John Lithgow
Biography
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 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).
Known For
The Simpsons
The Simpsons
Dexter
The Daily Show
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
How I Met Your Mother
Interstellar
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Conan
Saturday Night Live
The Graham Norton Show
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Frasier
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Colbert Report
30 Rock
The Crown
NOVA
Sherri
3rd Rock from the Sun
The One Show
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Shrek
Tony Awards
Tony Awards
Tony Awards
Tony Awards
Tony Awards
The View
The View
Dexter: New Blood
Great Performances
Dexter: Resurrection
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Stars in the House
Faerie Tale Theatre
Tales from the Crypt
The Tony Danza Show
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Finding Your Roots
Killers of the Flower Moon
The Old Man
Amazing Stories
Conclave
Perry Mason
Spellbound
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
The Oscars
Daddy's Home 2
Pitch Perfect 3
The Accountant
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
The Jungle Bunch 2: The Great Treasure Quest
Jimpa
Dreamgirls
Cliffhanger
The Homesman
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Santa Claus: The Movie
Shrek Stories
Sharper
Leap Year
Live from E!
New Year's Eve
Cabrini
This Is 40
Ricochet
Memphis Belle
The Bubble
Kinsey
Bombshell
Trial & Error
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
Obsession
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
Footloose
Homegrown
Silent Fall
Orange County
Don Quixote
The Pelican Brief
Tales from the Crypt - Uncut
Late Night
The Rule of Jenny Pen
Blow Out
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
Cosby
Pet Sematary
All That Jazz
Terms of Endearment
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Secret Service
Inside 'Interstellar'
Resting Place
Distant Thunder
Princess Caraboo
The Day After
Harry Potter
Today
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Johnny Skidmarks
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
The Campaign
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
Prohibition
Casting By
2010
Bark, George
Miss Sloane
Hollow Point
The Macabre World of Lavender Williams
The Boys
Harry and the Hendersons
The Ghost of Lord Farquaad
The Great Robot Race: The DARPA Grand Challenge
A Civil Action
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Beatriz at Dinner
The Tuskegee Airmen
Redwood Curtain
Out Cold
Traveling Man
The Tomorrow Man
The Manhattan Project
Mesmerized
The World According to Garp
Broadway: The Next Generation
Einstein's Big Idea
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
The Country Mouse & the City Mouse: A Christmas Tale
Best of Enemies
The West
The West
VH1 Goes Inside
The Early Show
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
Night of 100 Stars III
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
2010 : The Odyssey Continues
The Big Fix
Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party
A Good Man in Africa
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
DreamWorks 6 Spooky Stories Collection
Big Blonde
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection
Timms Valley
Myths and Hymns
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Not in Front of the Children
Love, Cheat & Steal
Give My Regards to Broadway
Mom, the Wolfman and Me
Pet Sematary: The Tale of Timmy Baterman
Lord John
Raising Cain
Twenty Good Years
World War II: When Lions Roared
The Apprentice: Martha Stewart
Show of Titles
Love Is Strange
Buckaroo Banzai Declassified
The Wrong Man
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
The Glitter Dome
Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
American Cinema
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
The Pulitzer At 100
Car of the Future
My Brother's Keeper
Amazing Stories: The Movie II
Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie
Emily @ the Edge of Chaos
The Country Girl
Shrek: Once Upon a Time
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
They All Saw a Cat
On Broadway
Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
Rich Kids
The Amazing Bone
Miracle in a Box: A Piano Reborn
Officer Buckle and Gloria
Hickory Dickory Doc
Ivory Hunters
Baby Girl Scott
The Oldest Living Graduate
95 Worlds and Counting
Sequestered - Inside Conclave
Special Effects: Anything Can Happen
The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts
Dogs and More Dogs
National Theatre Live: The Magistrate
Ode to Joy: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
Projections of America
Sangre
Art Happens Here with John Lithgow
John Lithgow's Kid-Sized Concert
Chez Bob
