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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
Bane (Voice)
for Bane (Voice) in Batman: No Man's Land (1999)
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Four years have passed ever since Harley Quinn and The Ventriloquist were locked up in Arkham Asylum as Bruce Wayne (Mel Gibson) is setting up to retire the role of Batman after the painful attacks from the two individual lunatics, however in the newest nightclub in Gotham known as the Iceberg Lounge that is owned by well known crime kingpin, Oswald Cobblepot (Joe Pesci) has been slowly taking over Gotham's crime ridden underbelly, having half of the inhabitants in his pocket. Starting from corrupt officials in the Gotham City Police Department, to some of even the high-living officials in the city, but things get even worse as there was an escaped inmate of an island prison in South America finds his way to Gotham, Eduardo Dorrance. A dangerous criminal that just escaped from an experiment gone wrong involving a unknown drug known as Venom. Meanwhile, the famous Gordon family including Barbara Gordon (Molly Ringwald) are planning to move away from Gotham City after Barbara was nearly killed at the hands of Harley Quinn but heard about the newest criminal. However, what Gotham didn't know was that they will experience the bane to Gotham's existence once a large breakout of Arkham starts after Dorrance made a deal with Cobblepot, now for the first time. Gotham's residents, including Batman weren't prepared for what's to come..
