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John Lithgow
John Arthur Lithgow ( ; born , 1945) is an American actor, musician, singer, and author. Lithgow has received acclaim and many accolades in his career including two Tony Awards, five Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, an American Comedy Award, four Drama Desk Awards and was also nominated for two Academy Awards and four Grammy Awards.〔Alvin Powell, ("Lithgow to speak at Afternoon Exercises: Actor, writer, humanitarian to grace Tercentenary Theatre" ), ''Harvard Gazette'', 2005-04-07.〕〔HFPA Nominations and Winners (HFPA Nominations and Winners )〕 Lithgow received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was inducted into American Theater Hall of Fame.
Lithgow is well known for his television roles as Dick Solomon in ''3rd Rock from the Sun'' and Arthur Mitchell in ''Dexter'' as well as for his roles in films ''Obsession'', ''Blow Out'', ''The World According to Garp'', ''Terms of Endearment'', ''Twilight Zone: The Movie'', ''Footloose'', ''The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension'', ''Harry and the Hendersons'', ''Raising Cain'', ''Cliffhanger'', ''The Pelican Brief'', ''Shrek'', ''The Life and Death of Peter Sellers'', ''Kinsey'', ''Rise of the Planet of the Apes'', ''The Homesman'', ''Love Is Strange'' and ''Interstellar''.
On the stage, he appeared in many Broadway productions including the musical adaptation of ''Sweet Smell of Success'' and ''Dirty Rotten Scoundrels''. In 2007, he made his Royal Shakespeare Company debut as Malvolio in Neil Bartlett's production of ''Twelfth Night''. He has also recorded music, such as the 1999 album of children's music, ''Singin' in the Bathtub'', and has written poetry and short stories, such as ''Marsupial Sue'', for children. His work for children earned him Grammy Award nominations and two Parents' Choice Silver Honor Awards.
==Early life==
Lithgow was born in Rochester, New York. His mother, Sarah Jane (née Price), 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. Because of his father's job, the family moved frequently during Lithgow's childhood; he spent his teenage years in Akron (living at Stan Hywet Hall) and Lakewood, Ohio.
Lithgow attended Harvard College, and graduated with an A.B. ''magna cum laude'' in 1967, in history and literature. He lived in Adams House as an undergraduate. Lithgow later served on Harvard's Board of Overseers. Lithgow credits a performance at Harvard of Gilbert and Sullivan's ''Utopia Limited'' with helping him decide to become an actor. After graduation, Lithgow 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.
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