Age: 80
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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).
John Lithgow
Chiron
for Chiron in Magical Beasts : Protectorate Beyond Borders
Suggested by nikobatman
For over six months, Gloria has been helping Sir MacGregor care for all sorts of creatures, happy to be able to help beings unjustly rejected by the rest of the world. It's in this context that Echidnades decides to visit her, hoping to make a special request and that she'll return soon. However, it's also at this time that Clayton returns from a poacher hunt in the Amazon with sad news. Doctor Zorka has been freed from prison by a dangerous commando of super-mutants, whom he once helped stabilize the state, and they have now kidnapped the wise Chiron. Why ? Because he alone knows how to reach the lair of the all-powerful mythical Japanese dragon : Yamata no Orochi and how to control it ! Such a plant can't lead to anything good, so Sir MacGregor decided to help his old centaur friend by asking Gloria and her friends, along with some of these magical creatures, to take care of it. Thus, while chasing Immortal Man and his mutants around the world, Gloria will discover that she still has much to learn about the fantastical world of our planet.
