John Arthur Lithgow is an American actor, musician, poet, author, and singer. Lithgow studied at Harvard winning a Fulbright scholarship. In 1973, Lithgow received his first Tony Award for his performance in The Changing Room. He has also appeared on Broadway in the acclaimed plays The Columnist and A Delicate Balance.
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John Arthur Lithgow is an American actor, musician, poet, author, and singer. Lithgow studied at Harvard winning a Fulbright scholarship and getting a chance to attend the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. In 1973, Lithgow received his first Tony Award for his performance in The Changing Room. He has also appeared on Broadway in the acclaimed plays The Columnist and A Delicate Balance. He portrayed Bill Clinton in Hillary and Clinton alongside Laurie Metcalf as Hillary Clinton. He is also known for his television roles such as Dick Solomon in the sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun winning three Primetime Emmy Awards for Best Actor in a Comedy Series. In 2019 he appeared in Mindy Kaling’s comedy Late Night and portrayed Roger Ailes in Bombshell. In 2020, he had a recurring role on the HBO period series Perry Mason. He won great acclaim for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in Peter Morgan’s historical drama The Crown on Netflix. Over the course of his career he has received numerous accolades including two Tony Awards, six Emmy Awards, and two Golden Globe awards, and has been nominated for two Academy Awards and four Grammy Awards. He has been awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. He was born in Rochester, New York. His mother, Sarah Jane, was a retired actress. His father, Arthur Washington Lithgow III was a theatrical producer and director who ran the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey.
He attended Harvard College graduating with an A. B. magna cum laude in 1967, in history and literature. He credits a performance at Harvard of Gilbert Sullivan’s Utopia and Limited Limited with helping him decide to become an actor. He also served as the Director of the WBAI radio station in New York City. He lived in Adams House as an undergraduate and later served on the Board of Overseers of the U.S. Limited Limited. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children. He and his wife have three children, a son, a daughter, and a son-in-law. They have a son and a daughter who lives in New Jersey with his mother and step-father. They also have a daughter and a step-son who live in California with their mother and father. He lives with his husband and three children in California. His wife and children live with him in California and he has two step-children who live with his parents in New Hampshire. He had a son with his first wife, Jennifer, in 2008. He now has a daughter with his second wife, Laura. He recently had a daughter by the age of 20. He previously lived with his father and stepmother in Ohio and New Jersey, where he lived in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where activist Coretta Scott King babysat him and his siblings. He spent his teenage years in Akron and Lakewood, Ohio. His early screen roles included Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz, and Brian De Palma’s Blow Out. He then starred in the films Footloose and Harry and the Hendersons.
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