John Lithgow
American actor (born 1945)
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He's the shape-shifter who can make you laugh as a pompous alien, freeze you as a serial killer, and move you as Churchill — all with the same face. Lithgow's range isn't a party trick; it's four decades of proving character actors can own the room.
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John Arthur Lithgow studied at Harvard and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art before his 1972 Broadway debut in The Changing Room won him his first Tony Award. Two Academy Award nominations followed in quick succession — for a transgender ex-football player in The World According to Garp (1982) and a lonely banker in Terms of Endearment (1983) — but the width of his career defied any single lane. He won three Emmy Awards playing the preening alien Dick Solomon on 3rd Rock from the Sun from 1996 to 2001, then another for the chilling Arthur Mitchell on Dexter in 2009. A second Tony ca…
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- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series
- honorary doctor of Harvard University
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