John Lithgow
John Arthur Lithgow ( ; born , 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 Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Tony Awards as well as nominations for two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, and four Grammy Awards. Lithgow has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2001 and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2005.Lithgow made his Broadway debut in ''The Changing Room'' (1972) for which he received his first Tony Award. In 1976 Lithgow acted alongside Meryl Streep in the plays ''27 Wagons Full of Cotton'', ''A Memory of Two Mondays'' and ''Secret Service'' at The Public Theatre. He received Tony Award nominations for ''Requiem for a Heavyweight'' (1985), ''M. Butterfly'' (1988), and ''Dirty Rotten Scoundrels'' (2005). In 2002, Lithgow received his second Tony Award, this time for a musical, ''Sweet Smell of Success''. In 2007, he made his Royal Shakespeare Company debut as Malvolio in ''Twelfth Night''. He returned to Broadway in the plays ''The Columnist'' (2012), ''A Delicate Balance'' (2014), and ''Hillary and Clinton'' (2019).
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).
Lithgow's early roles include in ''All That Jazz'' (1979) and ''Blow Out'' (1981) before he received Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nominations for his roles in ''The World According to Garp'' (1982) and ''Terms of Endearment'' (1983). Lithgow's other notable films include ''Twilight Zone: The Movie'' (1983), ''Footloose'' (1984), ''Harry and the Hendersons'' (1987), ''Raising Cain'' (1992), ''Cliffhanger'' (1993), ''A Civil Action'' (1998), ''Shrek'' (2001), ''Kinsey'' (2004), ''Love Is Strange'' (2014), ''Interstellar'' (2014), ''Miss Sloane'' (2016), ''Beatriz at Dinner'' (2017), ''Late Night'' (2019), ''Bombshell'' (2019), and ''Killers of the Flower Moon'' (2023). Provided by Wikipedia
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