John Lithgow

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 film roles include in ''All That Jazz'' (1979) and ''Blow Out'' (1981) before receiving Academy Award 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 films such as ''Footloose'' (1984), ''Harry and the Hendersons'' (1987), ''A Civil Action'' (1998), ''Shrek'' (2001), ''Kinsey'' (2004), ''Love Is Strange'' (2014), ''Interstellar'' (2014), ''Beatriz at Dinner'' (2017), ''Late Night'' (2019), ''Bombshell'' (2019), ''Killers of the Flower Moon'' (2023), and ''Conclave'' (2024). Provided by Wikipedia
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