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Nigel Lythgoe

Highest Rated: 88% Dancing in Jaffa (2013)

Lowest Rated: 60% High Strung Free Dance (2018)

Birthday: Jul 9, 1949

Birthplace: Wirral, England, UK

Nigel Lythgoe became a television insider because of his 10 year association with the granddaddy of all reality talent competitions, "American Idol." But this son of a dockworker from Northern England started out as a hoofer. And after striking gold with America's vocal chords, he returned to his first love on the dance reality program "So You Think You Can Dance," a show that transformed a defining obsession into gold for this producer-turned-reality television celeb.

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Highest rated movies

88% 72% Dancing in Jaffa
Watchlist 60% 82% High Strung Free Dance Watchlist
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Nigel Lythgoe

Nigel Lythgoe Nigel Lythgoe Nigel Lythgoe at arrivals for 18th Annual Debbie Allen Dance Academy Fall Soiree Fundraising Celebration, Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Beverly Hills, CA November 1, 2018. Photo By: Priscilla Grant/Everett Collection Nigel Lythgoe, Cat Deeley at arrivals for ARRIVALS - The 59th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, September 16, 2007. Photo by: Michael Germana/Everett Collection American Idol, Jennifer Lopez, Nigel Lythgoe, Jimmy Iovine, Ryan Seacrest, Ken Warwick, Randy Jackson, Mike Darnell, Season 10, 1/19/2011, ©FOX So You Think You Can Dance, Nigel Lythgoe (L), Kris Lythgoe (C), Mary Murphy (R), 07/20/2005, ©FOX So You Think You Can Dance, Mary Murphy (L), Nigel Lythgoe (C), Tara Lipinski (R), 07/20/2005, ©FOX So You Think You Can Dance, Nigel Lythgoe, 07/20/2005, ©FOX So You Think You Can Dance, Mary Murphy (L), Nigel Lythgoe (R), 07/20/2005, ©FOX So You Think You Can Dance, Mary Murphy (L), Nigel Lythgoe (C), Misty Copeland (R), 07/20/2005, ©FOX View more photos

Filmography

Movies

Credit
60% 82% High Strung Free Dance Theater Patron (Character) $82.5K 2018
88% 72% Dancing in Jaffa Executive Producer $134.5K 2013

TV

Credit
No Score Yet 58% So You Think You Can Dance Unknown (Character),
Creator,
Executive Producer,
Director,
Writer,
Judge 		2005-2019 2022 2024
No Score Yet No Score Yet Home & Family Guest 2018-2019
100% No Score Yet Sherman's Showcase Unknown (Guest Star) 2019
No Score Yet 54% American Idol Executive Producer 2002-2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Doctors Guest 2013
No Score Yet No Score Yet Larry King Now Guest 2013
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Chance to Dance Producer 2012
No Score Yet No Score Yet Opening Act Executive Producer,
Self 		2012
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Talk Guest 2011
No Score Yet 42% Jimmy Kimmel Live! Guest 2009
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Bonnie Hunt Show Guest 2009
No Score Yet No Score Yet Superstars of Dance Executive Producer 2009
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Next Great American Band Executive Producer 2007
No Score Yet No Score Yet American Juniors Executive Producer 2003
No Score Yet No Score Yet All American Girl Executive Producer 2003