Born on 19 October 1945 in Rochester, New York, John Lithgow was raised in a theatre-loving family. His mother was an actress and his father a theater producer who put on Shakespeare festivals in ...

John Lithgow is brushing aside concerns about his ... but none when he agreed to play author Roald Dahl, whose family has publicly apologized for his antisemitism, in the West End play Giant.

John Lithgow is a man well aware of cancel culture ... Dahl died in 1990, and his family later apologised for antisemitic remarks he made during his lifetime. But the debate of whether art can ...

By Kimberly Nordyke Managing Editor, Digital Asked if he expected the criticism, Lithgow replied ... he agreed to play author Roald Dahl, whose family has publicly apologized for his antisemitism ...