John Lithgow Bio | Wiki
John Lithgow is an American actor. He studied at Harvard University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art before becoming known for his work on the stage and screen.
John has been the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Golden Globe Awards, six Primetime Emmy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Tony Awards. Moreover, he has also received nominations for two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, and four Grammy Awards. He has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and he was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
John Lithgow Age
John was born on October 19, 1945, in Rochester, New York, United States. He is 77 years old.
John Lithgow Height
He is a man of tall stature and stands at a height of 6 ft 4 in (Approx. 1.93 m).
John Lithgow Family
He was born in Rochester, New York, to his parents Sarah Jane Lithgow and Arthur Washington Lithgow III. John’s mother was a retired actress and his father was a theatrical producer and director who ran McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey.
His father was born in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, to a European-American family. John is the third of four children and has three siblings: an older brother David, an older sister Robin, and a younger sister Sarah Jane Boaker. He spent his childhood years in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where activist Coretta Scott King was his babysitter.
John Lithgow Wife
John married Jean Taynton, a teacher in 1966. The couple had one son together, Ian, who is an actor and a marriage and family therapist. John and his wife separated after he had an affair with actress Liv Ullmann and they divorced in 1980. Later, John married UCLA history professor Mary Yeager in 1981 and they have a son and a daughter.
John Lithgow Education
He graduated from Princeton High School in 1963. John then studied history and English literature at Harvard College. he lived in Adams House as an undergraduate and later served on Harvard’s Board of Overseers. John was a pupil of dramatist Robert Chapman who was the director of Harvard’s Loeb Drama Center.
He graduated from Harvard in 1967 with an A.B. magna cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. After he graduated, John won a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Also after graduation, he served as the Director of the Arts and Literature Department at WBAI, the Pacifica radio station in New York City.
John Lithgow Movies And Tv Shows
Leap Year (2010)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
This Is 40 (2012)
Love Is Strange (2014)
Interstellar (2014)
The Homesman (2014)
Best of Enemies (2015)
Miss Sloane (2016)
Beatriz at Dinner (2017)
Daddy’s Home 2 (2017)
Pitch Perfect 3 (2017)
Late Night (2019)
Pet Sematary (2019)
Bombshell (2019)
The Old Man (2022–present)
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
John Lithgow Dexter
In September 2009, John joined the cast of Dexter as Arthur Mitchell, a serial killer and Dexter Morgan’s nemesis. He won a Golden Globe Award for this role and won an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor In A Drama Series.
John Lithgow Books
A Lithgow Palooza (2004)
Carnival of the Animals (2004)
Lithgow Party Paloozas!: 52 Unexpected Ways to Make a Birthday, Holiday, or Any Day a Celebration for Kids (2005)
Lithgow Paloozas!: Boredom Blasters (2005)
Marsupial Sue Presents “The Runaway Pancake” (2005)
Mahalia Mouse Goes to College (2007)
I Got Two Dogs (2008)
Dumpty: The Age of Trump in Verse (2019)
Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown: Verses for a Despotic Age (2020)
John Lithgow In Shrek
In 2001, he gained recognition for voicing the evil Lord Farquaad in the Academy Award-winning DreamWorks Animated film Shrek alongside Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, and Cameron Diaz. Shrek is a 2001 American computer-animated comedy film loosely based on the 1990 children’s picture book of the same name by William Steig. Directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson and written by Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman, and Roger S. H. Schulman.
John Lithgow Footloose
He played a pastor who condemns dancing in Footloose, a 1984 American musical drama film directed by Herbert Ross. It tells the story of Ren McCormack (Kevin Bacon), a teenager from Chicago who moves to a small town, where he attempts to overturn the ban on dancing instituted by the efforts of a local minister (John).
John Lithgow Twilight Zone
In 1983, John 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. In an interview with Bill Moyers, John reveals this role as the favorite of his film career.
John Lithgow The Crown
In 2016, he appeared in the first season of The Crown (2016) portraying Winston Churchill. John won numerous awards for his performance including a Primetime Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
John Lithgow Net Worth
He earns his wealth from his career, therefore, he has amassed a fortune over the years. John’s estimated net worth is $50 million.
Is John Lithgow Still Alive
Yes. John is currently 77 years old and healthy. In August 2021, he joined the cast of Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon as Prosecutor Leaward.