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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).
*READ SYNOPSIS* The film completely ignores the 2010 reboot. At the beginning of the film the audience is enlightened that "A Nightmare on Elm Street 2" through "Freddy vs. Jason" was nothing but vivid dreams that Nancy Thompson suffered from. It is quickly explained that these films were not actual events, but merely nightmares that Nancy has suffered from since the original attacks by Freddy in 1984. Nancy is now married to a school teacher named Billy Carson, and has a son named Phillip, and two grandchildren, Michael and Marge (named after her great-grandmother). Nancy was not around for much of her son's life, because of her very lengthy mental health recovery program. Nancy has sworn to her husband and son, that she would make up for lost time by being there for her grandchildren. Nancy falls asleep one night, and as usual, begins to have a frantic nightmare about Freddy and her former high school friends. As usual, Nancy begins to toss and turn, but tells herself that these dreams are not actual events, like the one in 1984, but just merely bad memorys working against her. The next morning, while cooking breakfast, her husband spots three small scratches on her gown. Nancy begins to freak out, but her husband quickly eases her mind whenever he informs her that he placed their pet cat in the bed after she had fallen asleep. They both saw this as an easy explanation. Across the road, Phillip, Nancy's son, is trying his best to get his two children up and ready for school. Michael and Marge are way to busy discussing their strange dreams, and the two quickly realize that their dreams are very similar. Phillip is in a big hurry, and ignores both of them. They both go to school discussing their dreams with all of their classmates. After school, the children go to their grandmother's home. Nancy cooks them supper, and over hears their conversation. Nancy sits down and asks them both questions. She quickly realizes that Freddy has visited both of them, and becomes very frantic. That night, Nancy begins to have one of her usual pesky nightmares, but something seems different. Nancy notices that her son, Phillip, is in her dream. She watches him get murdered. The next morning she wakes up with dry blood splattered on her face. Her husband, once again, plays it off and comes up with a logical excuse. Nancy begins to accept the excuse, but quickly recalls her nightmare. She tells her husband that they must go to her son's home at once. They do. They find him dead, slaughtered, in his bed. Freddy has returned for the first time since 1984. These are no longer bad dreams in the mind of Nancy Thompson. This is real life, and Freddy won't stop until Nancy and her whole world is dead.
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