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Birthday

1953-12-09 (71 years old)

Place of Birth

Christopher, Illinois, USA

John Malkovich

Biography:

John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an American actor. He has received several accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and nominations for two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards.

Malkovich started his career as a charter member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago in 1976. He moved to New York City, acting in a Steppenwolf production of the Sam Shepard play True West (1980). He made his Broadway debut as Biff in the revival of the Arthur Miller play Death of a Salesman (1984). He directed the Harold Pinter play The Caretaker(1986) and acted in Lanford Wilson's Burn This(1987).

Malkovich has received two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor nominations for his performances in Places in the Heart (1984) and In the Line of Fire (1993). Other films include The Killing Fields (1984), Empire of the Sun (1987), Dangerous Liaisons (1988), Of Mice and Men (1992), Con Air (1997), Rounders (1998), Being John Malkovich (1999), Shadow of the Vampire (2000), Ripley's Game (2002), Johnny English (2003), Burn After Reading (2008), and Red (2010). He has also produced films such as Ghost World (2001), Juno (2007), and The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012).

For his work on television, he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for Death of a Salesman (1985). His other Emmy-nominated roles were for portraying Herman J. Mankiewicz in RKO 281 (1999) and Charles Talleyrand in Napoléon (2002). Other television roles include  Crossbones (2014), Billions (2018–19), The New Pope (2020), and Space Force (2020–2022).

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Known For

Acting

2025

Opus as Alfred Moretti

2024

The Line as Beach Miller
The New Look as Lucien Lelong
RIPLEY as Reeves Minot
Unsinkable as Chief Engineer Pollard

2023

Seneca as Seneca
One Ranger as Geddes
Fool's Paradise as Ed Cote

2022

White Elephant as Glen Follett
Mindcage as The Artist
Chariot as Dr. Karn
Shattered as Ronald

2021

The Survivalist as Aaron Ramsey
Rogue Hostage as Sam Nelson
Ten Year Old Tom as Mr. B (voice)

2020

Valley of the Gods as Wes Tauros
Last Call as Dr. Felton
Ava as Duke
Arkansas as Bright
Home Movie: The Princess Bride as The Impressive Clergyman
The New Pope as Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox
Space Force as Dr. Adrian Mallory

2019

Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona as Self - Narrator (voice)

2018

Supercon as Sid Newberry
Bird Box as Douglas
Mile 22 as Bishop
The Music Critic as The Narrator
The ABC Murders as Hercule Poirot

2017

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda as Port (archive footage)
Unlocked as Bob Hunter
About Love. Adults Only as лектор Эд
The Wilde Wedding as Laurence
I Love You, Daddy as Leslie Goodwin
Bullet Head as Walker
Just Call Me God as Satur Diman Cha

2016

Zoolander 2 as Chazz Spencer
Deepwater Horizon as Donald Vidrine
Psychogenic Fugue as All characters
Billions as Grigor Andolov

2014

Cesar Chavez as Bogdanovitch
Penguins of Madagascar as Dave (voice)
Cut Bank as Sheriff Vogel
Noseland as Self
The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation Search and Rescue as Dave / Dr. Octavius Brine (voice)
Crossbones as Blackbeard

2013

Warm Bodies as Colonel Grigio
RED 2 as Marvin Boggs
Siberian Education as Grandfather Kuzya
Ecstasy as Vinny

2012

Drunkboat as Mort
Lines of Wellington as General Wellington
Side by Side as Self

2011

2010

Jonah Hex as Turnbull
RED as Marvin Boggs
Secretariat as Lucien Laurin

2009

2008

Afterwards as Joseph Kay
Changeling as Rev. Gustav Briegleb
Burn After Reading as Osborne Cox
In Tranzit as Pavlov
Disgrace as David Lurie
Mutant Chronicles as Constantine
The Great Buck Howard as Buck Howard

2007

Beowulf as Unferth

2006

Eragon as King Galbatorix
The Call as Exorcist
Art School Confidential as Professor Sandiford
Klimt as Gustav Klimt

2005

Colour Me Kubrick as Alan Conway

2004

The Libertine as Charles II

2003

Johnny English as Pascal Sauvage
A Talking Picture as Comandante John Walesa

2002

Ripley's Game as Tom Ripley
Adaptation. as John Malkovich (uncredited)
The Dancer Upstairs as Abimael Guzman (uncredited)
Napoleon as Charles de Talleyrand

2001

Knockaround Guys as Teddy Deserve
Savage Souls as Monsieur Numance
Hotel as Omar Jonnson
I’m Going Home as John Crawford

2000

Shadow of the Vampire as F. W. Murnau
RKO 281 as Herman Mankiewicz
Les Misérables as Javert

1999

Being John Malkovich as John Horatio Malkovich
Time Regained as Baron de Charlus
Ladies Room as Roberto

1998

Rounders as Teddy KGB

1997

Con Air as Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom
Cannes Man as Self

1996

Mulholland Falls as General Thomas Timms
Mary Reilly as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde
The Portrait of a Lady as Gilbert Osmond
The Ogre as Abel

1995

Beyond the Clouds as The Director
The Convent as Michael
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive as Self (uncredited)

1994

Zona+ as Próprio

1993

In the Line of Fire as Mitch Leary
Alive as Carlitos Páez / Narrator (uncredited)

1992

Jennifer Eight as Agent St. Anne
Of Mice and Men as Lennie Small

1991

Queens Logic as Eliot
The Object of Beauty as Jake Bartholomew
Performance as Deeley

1990

Romy Award as Presenter

1989

Decade as Self

1988

Dangerous Liaisons as Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont
Miles from Home as Barry Maxwell

1987

Making Mr. Right as Jeff Peters / Ulysses
The Glass Menagerie as Tom Wingfield
Santabear's High Flying Adventure as Santa Claus (voice)

1986

Rocket to the Moon as Ben Stark

1985

Death of a Salesman as Biff Loman
Eleni as Nicholas 'Nick' Gage

1984

The Killing Fields as Al Rockoff
True West as Lee

1982

American Playhouse as Ben Stark

1981

1978

A Wedding as Wedding Guest (uncredited)

1975

Saturday Night Live as Self - Host

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Thelma as Walker Percy
The Yellow Tie as Sergiu Celibidache
A Winter's Journey as Leiermann

Directing

2014

Strap Hanging as Director

2002

Hideous Man as Director

2000

Lady Behave as Director

Production

2022

Shattered as Producer

2020

Last Call as Producer

2017

The Wilde Wedding as Executive Producer

2016

Demolition as Producer

2011

Young Adult as Executive Producer

2009

Which Way Home as Executive Producer

2007

Juno as Producer

2006

2004

The Libertine as Producer

2003

Kill the Poor as Producer

2002

2001

Ghost World as Producer

1988

The Accidental Tourist as Executive Producer

Writing

2008

Snow Angel as Writer

2002

Hideous Man as Writer

2000

Lady Behave as Writer

Sound

2019

Gotta Get Down to It as Sound Mixer