John Lithgow

Acting · Born 1945-10-19 in Rochester, New York, USA

Biography

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…

Filmography

• Shrek as Lord Farquaad (voice)
• Footloose as Rev. Shaw Moore
• Sharper as Richard Hobbes
• The Life and Death of Peter Sellers as Blake Edwards
• Confessions of a Shopaholic as Edgar West
• 2010 as Dr. Walter Curnow
• Obsession as Robert Lasalle
• The Manhattan Project as John Mathewson
• Terms of Endearment as Sam Burns
• Kinsey as Alfred Seguine Kinsey