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John Lithgow
🎂 Oct 19, 1945 (80)
Rochester, New York, USA Top 500
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.
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80
Age
2 nom.
Oscars
79
Movies
21
Series
Movies
Interstellar
2014
Shrek
2001
Conclave
2024
Killers of the Flower Moon
2023
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011
The Rule of Jenny Pen
2025
The Accountant
2016
2010
1984
Bombshell
2019
Footloose
1984
Spellbound
2024
Miss Sloane
2016
Cliffhanger
1993
Dreamgirls
2006
Pet Sematary
2019
Daddy's Home 2
2017
The Pelican Brief
1993
Pitch Perfect 3
2017
Blow Out
1981
Twilight Zone: The Movie
1983
This Is 40
2012
Confessions of a Shopaholic
2009
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
1984
Leap Year
2010
The Homesman
2014
The Campaign
2012
Terms of Endearment
1983
New Year's Eve
2011
The Bubble
2022
All That Jazz
1979
Harry and the Hendersons
1987
Cabrini
2024
Sharper
2023
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
2000
Memphis Belle
1990
Orange County
2002
Kinsey
2004
Santa Claus: The Movie
1985
Ricochet
1991
Homegrown
1998
Raising Cain
1992
The Manhattan Project
1986
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
2004
Silent Fall
1994
Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection
1999
The World According to Garp
1982
Love Is Strange
2014
The Big Fix
1978
Beatriz at Dinner
2017
Obsession
1976
TV Shows
3rd Rock from the Sun
1996
The Old Man
2022
Twenty Good Years
2006
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
2013
Trial & Error
2017
Dexter
2006
The Crown
2016
Perry Mason
2020
How I Met Your Mother
2005
Tales from the Crypt
1989
Frasier
1993
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
30 Rock
2006
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Cosby
1996
Amazing Stories
1985
Dexter: New Blood
2021
The Simpsons
1989
Harry Potter
2026
Dexter: Resurrection
2025
DreamWorks 6 Spooky Stories Collection
2003
Filmography
Harry Potter
Albus Dumbledore
2026
TV
Jimpa
Jimpa
2026
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Dexter: Resurrection
Arthur Mitchell
2025
TV
The Rule of Jenny Pen
Dave Crealy
2025
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Spellbound
Bolinar (voice)
2024
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Conclave
Tremblay
2024
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John Lithgow
1945-10-19 · 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).