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
Mr. Mushnik
for Mr. Mushnik in LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS REMAKE
Suggested by enzotakerian
I'm not sure if it should take place during the Great Depression or during modern times. In a small town called Skidrow, Mushnik's Flower Shop has been going downhill in business. Mr. Mushnik himself feels like he can't even count on his only two florists, Seymour (a nerdy man working and living in the shop after Mushnik found him as an orphan on the streets) and Audrey (a kind-hearted woman in a toxic relationship with a manic dentist). Unbeknownst to each other, Seymour and Audrey really like each other. One day, Seymour decides that the shop can go in a new direction. He puts in the display window a strange and unusual plant that appears to be a bulbous flytrap (which Seymour named "Audrey II"). Suddenly, a customer walks in, fascinated by the plant and decides to buy $50 worth of roses, and then more customers pile in. At the end of the day, Audrey II wilts and Seymour eventually finds out that instead of water, it drinks BLOOD (after Seymour pricked his finger with dead roses)! Overtime, Audrey II gets advertised on the radio and on TV. The shop gets more successful as Audrey II gets bigger as Seymour gets anemic. At one point, he hears the words, "Feed Me!" coming from AUDREY II! The plant talks in a deep voice demanding more blood to feed on. Knowing that he'll lose everything if he loses Audrey II, Seymour reluctantly decides to find someone who won't be missed after death and feed the body to the plant.
