2011 Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal Recipient

 An award-winning stage, screen, and television actor and best-selling author, John Lithgow made his stage debut at age six in a production of his father, Arthur Lithgow. His Broadway career includes a Tony award for The Changing Room and nominations for Requiem for a Heavyweight, for M. Butterfly, and for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. In 2002, he won both the Tony and Drama Desk awards as best actor in a Broadway musical for his performance in Sweet Smell of Success. His one-man theatrical memoir, Stories by Heart, reflects on storytelling as the tie that binds humanity. In 1982, he received an Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of Roberta Muldoon in The World According to Garp. A second Oscar nomination followed for Terms of Endearment (1983). Mr. Lithgow has been nominated for 11 Emmy Awards. He has won five, three for his role on NBC’s 3rd Rock from the Sun, the hit comedy series which also brought him a Golden Globe, two SAG Awards, and the American Comedy Award. In 2009, he joined the cast of Dexter for its fourth season as a devious serial killer, earning another Golden Globe and his fifth Emmy. Mr. Lithgow received a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University. He graduated magna cum laude in 1967 and then studied as a Fulbright fellow at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Mr. Lithgow has written several best-selling children’s books, released three CDs, performed concerts with major symphony orchestras, and in 2003 dipped into the world of dance, speaking his own narration in Christopher Wheeldon’s Carnival of the Animals for New York City Ballet and dancing the role of the Elephant. He was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 2005 and into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010. He received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2001.