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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 Rotten Scoundrels (2005). He has acted in the plays The Columnist (2012), A Delicate Balance (2014), and Hillary and Clinton (2019). He portrayed Roald Dahl in the play Giant on the West End, for which he was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Actor. He starred as Dick Solomon in the television sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996–2001), winning three Primetime Emmy Awards for Best Actor in a Comedy Series. He received further Primetime Emmy Awards for his performances as Arthur Mitchell in the drama Dexter (2009) and as Winston Churchill in the Netflix drama The Crown (2016–2019). He also starred in HBO's Perry Mason (2020) and FX's The Old Man (2022). On film, he has received two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor nominations for his roles as a transgender ex-football player in The World According to Garp (1982) and a lonely banker in Terms of Endearment (1983). He also acted in All That Jazz (1979), Blow Out (1981), Footloose (1984), Harry and the Hendersons (1987), A Civil Action (1998), Shrek (2001), Kinsey (2004), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), Love Is Strange (2014), Interstellar (2014), Late Night (2019), Bombshell (2019), Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), and Conclave (2024).
Season 1: Completely different - Dexter hunts a ritualistic cult-style killer by the name of The Phantom (similar to Travis Marshall). Ends with Dexter unsatisfied by the kill, questioning his purpose. Season 2: Bay Harbor Butcher arc like in the show. Around episode 7, Dr. Danco is introduced, targeting victims with surgical mutilations. He kills Doakes in the finale before Dexter stops him. Season 3: Miguel Prado arc remains, but Freebo is replaced with the Skinner. Miguel manipulates Dexter into helping, Dexter and Miguel kill the skinner together, but Dexter kills Miguel when he becomes reckless. Season 4: Same as original. Trinity Killer murders Rita, shattering Dexter. Season 5: Lumen removed. Dr. Vogel introduced, revealing her role in creating the Code. Dexter learns from her tapes that he has a brother. Season 6: Brian finally appears, echoing the Ice Truck Killer arc. He tempts Dexter to abandon the Code. Dexter spares him instead of killing him. Season 7: Dexter and Brian reluctantly team up to stop a new cannibalistic threat (Roberto Acosta and The Coven). Deb grows close to Kyle Chutsky and becomes pregnant. Brian disappears by the finale. Season 8: Deb gives birth to Nicholas Morgan. No Dark Passenger tie, Nicholas is normal. Dexter struggles to raise Harrison while continuing to kill. New villain: Elliot Budge (a stalker who discovers Dexter is a serial killer). In the end, Dexter fakes his death so Harrison can grow up safe with Deb, Chutsky, and Nicholas.
