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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
Arnold Wesker/The Ventriloquist
for Arnold Wesker/The Ventriloquist in Dark Knight : Knightfall (2014)
Suggested by jeanpaulvalley
10 years have passed since the previous opus. Batman has made new allies in the meantime, as well as new enemies... and suffered a heavy defeat against his worst enemy. It is in this particular context that his former lover, Talia Al Ghul, returns to him after years, in the company of his blood son: Damian! While he will have to get to know him, a mysterious bloodthirsty vigilante calling himself "Red Hood" begins to target the criminal empire of the terrible Black Mask. Batman seems to know this vigilante, although that was years ago. For his part, the Joker receives a new psychiatrist in Arkham, who finds him fascinating, Doctor Harleen Quinzel, something that the prince of crime could use to his advantage. But the worst thing is the arrival of a mysterious and powerful new supervillain, only known as "Bane". This one, in the company of a veritable army of loyal mercenaries and super-villains who want revenge for the defeat, has only one ambition in life: to break the black knight! And with this one starting to get tired, he could well achieve his goal...
