Meet John Lithgow Children: Ian, Phoebe And Nathan Lithgow
John Lithgow is the proud father of his three grown-up children, Ian Lithgow, Nathan Lithgow, and Phoeba Lithgow. The actor has been married twice and had one son from his first marriage and a son and a daughter from his second marriage.
In 1966, the prolific actor married Jean Taynton, a teacher. The couple stayed together for 14 years and separated. Jean was six years older than him. The couple welcomed their first child, son, Ian in 1972.
Ian is also an actor and has featured in Michael Almereyda’s recent movie Tesla and the HBO series Perry Mason. Ian is also a marriage and family therapist. John and his then-wife Jean divorced in 1980 after the actor had an affair with actress Liv Ullman.
In 1981, John married Mary Yeager, Professor Emeritus in the History department at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). They have been married for over 40 years now. In an interview, the actor recalled that he first met Mary when they were fixed up together by a mutual friend.
The pair have two children together, Phoeba and Nathan. Their daughter Phoebe was born in 1982. She lives a relatively low-key life and is presently pursuing a medical career.
In 1983, their son, Nathan was born who graduated from The International Culinary Center and currently serves as a chef across different clubs in New York. Further, he also dabbles in music production and is the bassist and vocalist of the post-punk band, the Nomads.
Nathan has also obtained Bachelor’s Degree in Music and Photography from NYU Gallatin.
More To Know About The Family Of John Lithgow
John Lithgow was born on October 19, 1945, in Rochester, New York, the son of Sarah Jane Lithgow (1917-2012), and Arthur Washington Lithgow III (1915-2004).
His mother, Sarah, was a retired actress, while his father, Arthur, was a theatrical producer and director who ran McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey. Arthur was born in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, to a European-American family.
Arthur’s great-grandfather served as a vice consul and vice commercial agent in the country. He was born as the third of four children and has three siblings, an older brother named David Lithgow, an older sister Robin Lithgow, and a younger sister Sarah Jane Boaker.
Because of his father’s profession, the family moved frequently during his childhood. John spent his childhood years in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where activist Coretta Scott King was his babysitter. Further, John spent his teenage years in Akron, and Lakewood, Ohio.
American Actor John Lithgow Religion
John Lithgow isn’t religious, so he can be placed in the atheist camp. Many viewers can remember him for playing a reverend of a small town who helped ban dancing in the original “Footloose”.
In order to get delve deep into the skin of a man of faith, John had to immerse himself into the world of someone who had faith. He said, “I am not a man who’s grown up religious.”
He added, “I had to figure out some sort of spine of reality there for which I literally went and sought spiritual counseling, quite cynically, I think, an Assembly of God minister that I found in the Yellow Pages.”