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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1966-06-28 (58 years old)

Place of Birth

Evanston, Illinois, USA

John Cusack

Biography:

John Paul Cusack (born June 28, 1966) is an American actor. Cusack began acting in films during the 1980s, starring in coming-of-age dramedies such as Sixteen Candles (1984), Better Off Dead (1985), The Sure Thing (1985), Stand by Me (1986), and Say Anything... (1989). In the 1990s, he then started appearing in independent films and had leading men roles in Bullets Over Broadway (1994), Con Air (1997), Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), The Thin Red Line (1998), Being John Malkovich (1999), High Fidelity (2000), America's Sweethearts (2001), Max (2002), and Runaway Jury (2003).

Cusack has been nominated for several awards, including a Golden Globe for his role starring in High Fidelity. He won the 2014 Canadian Screen Awards for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in Maps to the Stars. He is a son of filmmaker Dick Cusack and the younger brother of actors Bill, Joan and Ann Cusack.

In 2012, Cusack was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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Known For

Acting

2025

Fog of War as Bob Duncolm

2024

BRATS as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Decoded as Liseiwicz

2022

Pursuit as John Calloway

2020

Utopia as Dr. Kevin Christie

2019

Never Grow Old as Christopher 'Dutch' Albert

2018

Distorted as Vernon Sarsfield
River Runs Red as Horace

2017

Arsenal as Sal
Blood Money as Miller
Singularity as Elias Van Dorne

2016

Cell as Clayton 'Clay' Riddell
The Fog Bowl as Narrator (voice)

2015

Love & Mercy as Brian Wilson 1980s
Dragon Blade as Lucius
Chi-Raq as Fr. Mike Corridan
Hot Tub Time Machine 2 as Adam (uncredited)

2014

Adult World as Rat Billings
Maps to the Stars as Dr. Stafford Weiss
The Prince as Sam
The Bag Man as Jack
Drive Hard as Simon Keller
Reclaim as Benjamin
Doll & Em as John

2013

The Butler as Richard Nixon
The Frozen Ground as Robert Hansen
Grand Piano as Clem
We're No Animals as Tony Lovecraft
Salinger as Self - Actor

2012

The Raven as Edgar Allan Poe
The Paperboy as Hillary Van Wetter
The Factory as Mike Fletcher

2011

2010

2009

2012 as Jackson Curtis

2008

War, Inc. as Brand Hauser
Igor as Igor (voice)
Summerhood as Narrator (uncredited)

2007

1408 as Mike Enslin
Grace Is Gone as Stanley Philipps
Martian Child as David

2006

2005

2003

2002

Max as Max Rothman
Adaptation. as John Cusack (uncredited)

2001

2000

High Fidelity as Rob Gordon

1999

Being John Malkovich as Craig Schwartz
Cradle Will Rock as Nelson Rockefeller
Pushing Tin as Nick Falzone
The Jack Bull as Myrl Redding
This Is My Father as Eddie Sharp

1998

The Thin Red Line as Capt. John Gaff
Chicago Cab as Scary Man

1997

Con Air as Agent Vince Larkin
Grosse Pointe Blank as Martin Q. Blank
Anastasia as Dimitri (voice)
Eastwood on Eastwood as Narrator (voice)
The View as Self

1996

City Hall as Kevin Calhoun

1994

The Road to Wellville as Charles Ossining
Bullets Over Broadway as David Shayne
Baseball as Voice
Baseball as (voice)

1993

Map of the Human Heart as The Mapmaker
Money for Nothing as Joey Coyle
Frasier as Greg (voice)

1992

The Player as John Cusack
Bob Roberts as Cutting Edge Host

1991

True Colors as Peter Burton
Shadows and Fog as Student Jack

1990

The Grifters as Roy Dillon

1989

Say Anything... as Lloyd Dobler
Fat Man and Little Boy as Michael Merriman
Elvis Stories as Corky

1988

Tapeheads as Ivan Alexeev
Eight Men Out as Buck Weaver

1987

Hot Pursuit as Dan Bartlett
Broadcast News as Angry Messenger

1986

Stand by Me as Denny Lachance
One Crazy Summer as Hoops McCann

1985

The Sure Thing as Walter "Gib" Gibson
Better Off Dead... as Lane Meyer

1984

Grandview, U.S.A. as Johnny Maine

1983

Class as Roscoe

1981

1953

The Oscars as Self

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Writing

2013

2008

War, Inc. as Writer

2000

High Fidelity as Screenplay

1997

Grosse Pointe Blank as Screenplay

Production

2016

Cell as Executive Producer

2013

We're No Animals as Producer

2010

2008

War, Inc. as Producer

2007

Grace Is Gone as Producer

2002

Max as Associate Producer

2000

High Fidelity as Co-Producer

1999

The Jack Bull as Executive Producer

1998

Chicago Cab as Executive Producer

1997

Grosse Pointe Blank as Co-Producer

Sound

2000

High Fidelity as Music Supervisor