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John Malkovich

Born 1953-12-09

📍 Christopher, Illinois, USA

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).

Filmography 174

Wild Horse Nine

In the Hand of Dante

Being Related to John Malkovich

as Sergiu Celibidache

The Life of Mirrors

as Alfred Moretti

Safe Sets: Dying to Work in the Film Industry

as Beach Miller

as Chief Engineer Pollard

as Reeves Minot

as Lucien Lelong

Mr. Blake at Your Service!

as Andrew Blake

Fool's Paradise

Breaking Rachmaninoff

A Journey to Sundance

Savage Salvation

as Glen Follett

The Survivalist

as Aaron Ramsey

Ten Year Old Tom

as Mr. B (voice)

Valley of the Gods

Home Movie: The Princess Bride

as The Impressive Clergyman

as Dr. Adrian Mallory

as Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox

Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

as Judge Edward D. Cowart

The ABC Murders

as Hercule Poirot

The Music Critic

as The Narrator

as Sid Newberry

Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA

as Port (archive footage)

The Wilde Wedding

I Love You, Daddy

as Leslie Goodwin

About Love. Adults Only

Just Call Me God

as Satur Diman Cha

Deepwater Horizon

as Donald Vidrine

Psychogenic Fugue

as All characters

as Chazz Spencer

as Grigor Andolov

Penguins of Madagascar

as Dave (voice)

as Sheriff Vogel

Casanova Variations

The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover

as Dave / Dr. Octavius Brine (voice)

Jack Unterweger - The Charming Serial Killer

as Bogdanovitch

Late Night with Seth Meyers

as Marvin Boggs

Siberian Education

as Grandfather Kuzya

as Colonel Grigio

Lines of Wellington

as General Wellington

All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set

The Jonathan Ross Show

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

as Bruce Brazos

100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story

as Marvin Boggs

as Lucien Laurin

The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer

as Jack Unterweger

SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas

as (archive footage)

La Traversée du désir

Gardens of the Night

as Rev. Gustav Briegleb

Burn After Reading

Mutant Chronicles

Projectorparishilton

The Great Buck Howard

The Graham Norton Show

as King Galbatorix

On n'est pas couché

as Self - Guest

Art School Confidential

as Professor Sandiford

as Gustav Klimt

De Wereld Draait Door

Colour Me Kubrick

Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

as Humma Kavula

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

A Talking Picture

as Comandante John Walesa

as Pascal Sauvage

as John Malkovich (uncredited)

as Charles de Talleyrand

The Dancer Upstairs

as Abimael Guzman (uncredited)

Knockaround Guys

as Teddy Deserve

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

as Self - Guest

as Omar Jonnson

as Monsieur Numance

I’m Going Home

as John Crawford

Les Misérables

Shadow of the Vampire

as F. W. Murnau

as Herman Mankiewicz

Being John Malkovich

as John Horatio Malkovich

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

as Baron de Charlus

The Man in the Iron Mask

as Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom

Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady

The Portrait of a Lady

as Gilbert Osmond

Mulholland Falls

as General Thomas Timms

as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde

Beyond the Clouds

as The Director

To Make a Film Is to Be Alive

as Self (uncredited)

Heart of Darkness

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

as Self - Guest

In the Line of Fire

as Carlitos Páez / Narrator (uncredited)

as Agent St. Anne

Of Mice and Men

as Lennie Small

Annie Lennox: Totally Diva

Shadows and Fog

The Object of Beauty

as Jake Bartholomew

Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter

The Sheltering Sky

Dangerous Liaisons

as Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont

Miles from Home

as Barry Maxwell

The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun

Empire of the Sun

The Glass Menagerie

as Tom Wingfield

Making Mr. Right

as Jeff Peters / Ulysses

Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’

American Masters

Rocket to the Moon

as Nicholas 'Nick' Gage

Death of a Salesman

The Killing Fields

Places in the Heart

Say Goodnight, Gracie

Late Night with David Letterman

as Self - Guest

American Playhouse

American Playhouse

Wetten, dass..?

as Wedding Guest (uncredited)

Saturday Night Live

Lost and Found in Paris

as Wim Waldemar

A Winter's Journey