John Lithgow recently starred as Roald Dahl in Giant at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London.
John Lithgow is an acclaimed US actor of stage and screen, most famous for playing the role of Dick Solomon in TV comedy 3rd Rock From the Sun.
John Lithgow’s roots are in theatre. In 1973, he won a Tony Award two weeks after his Broadway debut in David Storey’s The Changing Room. Since then, he has appeared on Broadway 25 times, earning five more Tony nominations, a second Tony Award, four Drama Desk Awards, and induction into the Theatre Hall of Fame.
John Lithgow has also appeared in a long list of critically acclaimed films, landing Oscar nominations for The World According to Garp and Terms of Endearment. Other features have included All That Jazz, Footloose, Shrek, Interstellar, Bombshell and, more recently, Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the “Flower Moon and Edward Berger’s forthcoming movie Conclave.
Lithgow has been nominated for 13 Emmy Awards for his work on TV, winning six times: once for an episode of Amazing Stories, once for Showtime’s Dexter, once for playing Winston Churchill in Netflix’s The Crown, and three times for playing High Commander Dick Solomon on the hit NBC comedy series 3rd Rock from the Sun.
He received his latest Emmy nomination in the HBO television reboot of Perry Mason with Matthew Rhys. Currently, John is starring alongside Jeff Bridges in the FX drama series The Old Man.
In the last three years, Lithgow has joined Kennedy Center President Deborah Rutter and Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey as co-chairs of a Commission on the Arts for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Under their leadership, the Commission has produced authoritative reports on arts in education and America’s creative workforce.
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