John Lithgow has been the recipient of numerous accolades including six Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Tony Awards.
86 Facts About John Lithgow
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John Lithgow has received nominations for two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, and four Grammy Awards.
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John Lithgow has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2001 and he was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2005.
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In 1973 John Lithgow made his Broadway debut in The Changing Room for which he received his first Tony Award.
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In 1976 John 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.
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John Lithgow received Tony Award nominations for Requiem for a Heavyweight, M Butterfly, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
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In 2002, John Lithgow received his second Tony Award, this time for a musical, The Sweet Smell of Success.
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John Lithgow returned to Broadway in the plays The Columnist, A Delicate Balance, and Hillary and Clinton.
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John Lithgow received further Primetime Emmy Awards for his performances as Arthur Mitchell in the drama Dexter and as Winston Churchill in the Netflix drama The Crown.
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John Lithgow starred in HBO's Perry Mason and FX's The Old Man.
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John Lithgow received Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nominations for his performances in The World According to Garp and Terms of Endearment.
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John Lithgow then starred in the films Footloose, Harry and the Hendersons, The Pelican Brief, A Civil Action, Shrek, Kinsey, Dreamgirls, Love Is Strange, Miss Sloane, Beatriz at Dinner, Late Night, and Bombshell.
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John Lithgow was born on October 19,1945, in Rochester, New York.
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John Lithgow's mother, Sarah Jane Lithgow, was a retired actress.
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John Lithgow's father, Arthur Washington Lithgow III was a theatrical producer and director who ran McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey.
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John Lithgow's father was born in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, to a European-American family; his great-grandfather was a vice consul and vice commercial agent in the country.
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John Lithgow is the third of four children and has three siblings: an older brother David Lithgow, an older sister Robin Lithgow, and a younger sister Sarah Jane Bokaer.
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John Lithgow spent his childhood years in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where activist Coretta Scott King was his babysitter.
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John Lithgow spent his teenage years in Akron and Lakewood, Ohio.
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John Lithgow graduated from Princeton High School while Mitch Miller was hosting Sing Along with Mitch in 1963.
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John Lithgow then studied history and English literature at Harvard College.
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John Lithgow lived in Adams House as an undergraduate and later served on Harvard's Board of Overseers.
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John Lithgow was a pupil of dramatist Robert Chapman who was the director of Harvard's Loeb Drama Center.
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In 1972, John Lithgow made his film debut in Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues.
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In 1973, John Lithgow debuted on Broadway in David Storey's The Changing Room at the Morosco Theatre, earning him his first Tony nomination for Featured Actor in a Play and his first win.
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In 1979, John Lithgow appeared in Bob Fosse's semi-autobiographical movie All That Jazz as Lucas Sergeant.
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Between 1978 and 1980, John Lithgow appeared in ten episodes of the radio drama revival series CBS Radio Mystery Theater.
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John Lithgow voiced the character of Yoda in the National Public Radio adaptations of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
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John Lithgow provided narration for the IMAX film Special Effects: Anything Can Happen.
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In 1982 and 1983, John Lithgow was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performances as Roberta Muldoon in The World According to Garp and as Sam Burns in Terms of Endearment.
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In 1983, John Lithgow appeared in a remake of the classic Twilight Zone episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" in Twilight Zone: The Movie as the paranoid passenger made famous on the television show by William Shatner.
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Also in 1983 John Lithgow appeared in a minor role in the nuclear apocalypse TV film The Day After.
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In 1987, John Lithgow starred in the Bigfoot-themed family comedy Harry and the Hendersons.
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In 1986, John Lithgow received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his appearance in the episode The Doll of the Amazing Stories anthology series.
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Additionally, John Lithgow has been nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Special for The Day After and two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special for Resting Place and My Brother's Keeper.
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John Lithgow was approached about playing Dr Frasier Crane on Cheers, but turned it down.
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John Lithgow starred with Jeffrey Tambor in the NBC sitcom Twenty Good Years.
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John Lithgow received six consecutive nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series and won three times.
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In 2001, John Lithgow gained recognition for voicing the evil Lord Farquaad in the Academy Award-winning DreamWorks Animation film Shrek alongside Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy and Cameron Diaz.
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In 2002, John Lithgow starred as JJ Hunsecker in the Broadway adaptation of the 1957 film Sweet Smell of Success alongside Brian D'Arcy James.
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John Lithgow won the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical for his performance.
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That same year John Lithgow was elected into the American Theater Hall of Fame for his work on Broadway.
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John Lithgow returned for a 2005 revival, the Houston Ballet production of the same show in 2007, and the Pennsylvania Ballet production of it in 2008.
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In 2007, John Lithgow played Malvolio in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Twelfth Night, at The Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in the United Kingdom.
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In 2006, John Lithgow had a small role in the Academy Award-winning film Dreamgirls as Jerry Harris, a film producer offering Deena Jones a film role.
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In 2005, John Lithgow became the first ever actor to deliver a commencement speech at Harvard University and received an honorary Doctor of Arts from his alma mater.
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John Lithgow narrated some letters written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, some poems and sections from the Book of Revelation in certain parts of the performance.
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On March 5,2009, John Lithgow made a cameo on NBC's 30 Rock acting in the episode "Goodbye, My Friend" with several references to his role in Harry and the Hendersons.
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In September 2009, John Lithgow joined the cast of Dexter as Arthur Mitchell, a serial killer and Dexter Morgan's nemesis.
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John Lithgow won a Golden Globe Award for this role and won an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor In A Drama Series.
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John Lithgow guest starred on How I Met Your Mother in the role of Barney Stinson's father, Jerry.
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In 2008 through 2009, John Lithgow played Joe Keller in a Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's All My Sons directed by Simon McBurney.
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John Lithgow starred alongside Dianne Wiest, Patrick Wilson and Katie Holmes in her Broadway debut at the Schoenfeld Theatre.
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John Lithgow hosted Paloozaville, a children's Video on Demand program on Mag Rack based on his bestselling children's books.
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John Lithgow appears in Books By You, a children's computer game and guides them through the steps to personalize a pre-designed book.
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In 2012 John Lithgow returned to Broadway in David Auburn's play The Columnist, which played at the Manhattan Theatre Club.
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On October 1,2010, Lithgow appeared on Doug Benson's podcast Doug Loves Movies, with fellow guests Paul F Tompkins and Jimmy Pardo.
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John Lithgow has appeared on Chris Hardwick's show The Nerdist Podcast in 2012 and the WTF with Marc Maron podcast in 2019.
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In 2015, John Lithgow did the voice over work for Gore Vidal in the documentary film Best of Enemies with Kelsey Grammer.
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On October 18,2017, John Lithgow coauthored the New York Times daily crossword puzzle.
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In Fall 2014, John Lithgow returned to Broadway as Tobias in a revival of Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance.
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John Lithgow starred opposite Glenn Close, Martha Plimpton, Lindsay Duncan, Bob Balaban and Clare Higgins.
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John Lithgow gained critical attention for starring in Ira Sachs' independent romance film Love Is Strange.
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In 2016, John Lithgow appeared in the first season of The Crown portraying Winston Churchill.
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John Lithgow won numerous awards for his performance including a Primetime Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
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John Lithgow then starred in the independent film Beatriz at Dinner.
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John Lithgow has performed this play around the US starting at the Lincoln Center Theater with Willie Nelson in 2008, with a return performance at Lincoln Center slated for April to May 2019.
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In 2018, John Lithgow was one of the actors who voiced the audiobook A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo.
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In 2019, John Lithgow lent his voice for an audio play If You Win by Emily Chadick Weiss for Playing on Air and was released in spring 2020.
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In 2019, John Lithgow co-starred in Mindy Kaling's comedy Late Night.
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John Lithgow played Fox News CEO Roger Ailes in the film Bombshell.
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John Lithgow has done extensive work for children, including several books and albums.
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John Lithgow appeared as a guest on Ants in Your Pants, a Canadian children's program.
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John Lithgow launched into a career as a recording artist with Singin' in the Bathtub, a 1999 album of children's music.
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In June 2002, John Lithgow released his second children's album Farkle and Friends, but however, Waylon Jennings died four months before its release, and it was dedicated to his memory.
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John Lithgow makes occasional appearances on stage and television singing children's songs, accompanying himself on guitar.
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In 2022, John Lithgow presented Liv Ullman with the Academy Honorary Award at the Governors Awards.
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In June 2019, John Lithgow portrayed Donald Trump in "The Investigation: A Search for Truth in Ten Acts", a live reading of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
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John Lithgow portrayed Rudy Giuliani in a series of skits on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
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In October 2019, John Lithgow published Dumpty: The Age of Trump in Verse, a book of poems and illustrations.
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The project originated when John Lithgow was asked to perform a Gilbert and Sullivan-style song he wrote about Michael Flynn.
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John Lithgow has received two Tony Awards, six Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, an American Comedy Award, four Drama Desk Awards and has been nominated for two Academy Awards and four Grammy Awards.
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John Lithgow has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and he was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
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John Lithgow was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2019.
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John Lithgow subsequently married UCLA history professor Mary Yeager in 1981 and they had a son and daughter together.
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John Lithgow has been a supporter of Liverpool FC for many years.