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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. Fiers
for Mr. Fiers in Spider-Man: Brand New Day
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After the reality-altering events of No Way Home, a montage reveals Peter Parker’s grueling new status quo: balancing a failing freelance career with relentless street-level heroism. The peace is shattered when a military tank goes on a rampage through Manhattan, with The Punisher in hot pursuit. The chaos leads them to a high-security prison where a "possession" phenomenon begins jumping from inmates to guards. Peter and Frank Castle follow the psychic trail to a secret, illegal sub-basement holding Jean Grey. It’s revealed Jean was projecting her consciousness to lure the Punisher for a rescue; together, they liberate her and escape. The respite is short-lived. Following a brutal clash with Scorpion, a battered Peter collapses in his apartment. He awakens weeks later encased in a mysterious cocoon on his rooftop. Emerging with enhanced strength and organic web-shooters, he seeks out Bruce Banner to study these biological changes. However, Banner’s stabilizer malfunctions, triggering a Hulk transformation. During the brawl, Hulk reveals he remembers Peter’s secret identity, a memory Banner loses upon reverting. The arc culminates when Peter tracks The Hand to a plot involving Matt Murdock. Attempting to stop Daredevil’s forced extraction from prison, Peter is overwhelmed and captured. Waking up moments before an executioner’s blade falls, his new powers kick in, he systematically dismantles the ninja hoard with terrifying efficiency. He eventually locates a freed Daredevil, and the two vigilantes join forces to permanently drive The Hand back into the shadows. It's revealed that The Hand brought Elektra back from the dead once again to be the leader but she defied and ran.
