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). Description above from the Wikipedia article John Malkovich, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont
Dangerous Liaisons
Port (archive footage)
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
John Horatio Malkovich
Being John Malkovich
Al Rockoff
The Killing Fields
Teddy KGB
Rounders
Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom
Con Air
Charles VII
Joan of Arc
Joseph Kay
Afterwards
Unferth
Beowulf
King Galbatorix
Eragon
Basie
Empire of the Sun
Rev. Gustav Briegleb
Changeling
Agent St. Anne
Jennifer Eight
Tom Ripley
Ripley's Game
Kurtz
Heart of Darkness
F. W. Murnau
Shadow of the Vampire
General Thomas Timms
Mulholland Falls
Osborne Cox
Burn After Reading
Seneca
Seneca: On the Creation of Earthquakes
Turnbull
Jonah Hex
Port
The Sheltering Sky
Humma Kavula
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Teddy Deserve
Knockaround Guys
Charles II
The Libertine
Pavlov
In Tranzit
Jeff Peters / Ulysses
Making Mr. Right
Pascal Sauvage
Johnny English
Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde
Mary Reilly
The Director
Al di là delle nuvole
David Lurie
Disgrace
Geddes
One Ranger
Exorcist
The Call
Biff Loman
Death of a Salesman
Athos
The Man in the Iron Mask
Professor Sandiford
Art School Confidential
Lennie Small
Of Mice and Men
Constantine
Mutant Chronicles
Mitch Leary
In the Line of Fire
Alan Conway
Colour Me Kubrick
Mr. Will
Places in the Heart
Lost and Found in Paris
Gustav Klimt
Klimt
Gilbert Osmond
The Portrait of a Lady
Bruce Brazos
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Buck Howard
The Great Buck Howard
Michael
Gardens of the Night
Self
Musik und Meer
Marvin Boggs
RED
Baron de Charlus
Le Temps retrouvé
Monsieur Numance
Les Âmes fortes
Abel
Der Unhold
Lucien Laurin
Secretariat
Ben Stark
Rocket to the Moon
Eliot
Queens Logic
Herman Mankiewicz
RKO 281
Barry Maxwell
Miles from Home
Clown
Shadows and Fog
Tom Wingfield
The Glass Menagerie
Colonel Grigio
Warm Bodies
Mort
Drunkboat
Jake Bartholomew
The Object of Beauty
Andrew Blake
Complètement Cramé !
General Wellington
Linhas de Wellington
Michael
O Convento
Marvin Boggs
RED 2
Walker Percy
Thelma
Old Times
Narrator
Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies
Grandfather Kuzya
Educazione siberiana
Roberto
Ladies Room
Vinny
Ecstasy
Bogdanovitch
Cesar Chavez
Lee
True West
Glen Follett
White Elephant
Omar Jonnson
Hotel
In the Hand of Dante
Dave (voice)
Penguins of Madagascar
Sheriff Vogel
Cut Bank
Beach Miller
The Line
Alfred Moretti
Opus
Self
Noseland
Giacomo
Casanova Variations
Nicholas 'Nick' Gage
Eleni
Self
Saturday Night
Santa Claus (voice)
Santabear's High Flying Adventure
SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas
Self
Cannes Man
The Artist
Mindcage
Sergiu Celibidache
The Yellow Tie
Gary
Word of Honor
Hideous Man
American Dream
Comandante John Walesa
Um Filme Falado
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
Chazz Spencer
Zoolander 2
Himself
Le paradoxe de John Malkovich
John Crawford
Je rentre à la maison
Donald Vidrine
Deepwater Horizon
John Malkovich (uncredited)
Adaptation.
Self (uncredited)
Fare un film è per me vivere
Bob Hunter
Unlocked
All characters
Psychogenic Fugue
Sid Newberry
Supercon
Wes Tauros
Valley of the Gods
Dr. Felton
Last Call
лектор Эд
Про любовь. Только для взрослых
Carlitos Páez / Narrator (uncredited)
Alive
Self
All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set
Laurence
The Wilde Wedding
Leslie Goodwin
I Love You, Daddy
Douglas
Bird Box
Walker
Bullet Head
Self
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
Self
La Traversée du désir
Bishop
Mile 22
Judge Edward D. Cowart
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Casanovagen
Piers
Velvet Buzzsaw
Jack Unterweger - der charmante Serienkiller
Jack Unterweger
The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer
Duke
Ava
Ed Cote
Fool's Paradise
Bright
Arkansas
Abimael Guzman (uncredited)
The Dancer Upstairs
Self
100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story
Self
Side by Side
Self
The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
Leiermann
A Winter's Journey
Self
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
Self
Decade
Peter
Savage Salvation
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
A Wedding
Aaron Ramsey
The Survivalist
The Narrator
The Music Critic
Self / Biff
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
Dr. Karn
Chariot
Sam Nelson
Rogue Hostage
Satur Diman Cha
Just Call Me God
Dave / Dr. Octavius Brine (voice)
The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation Search and Rescue
Ronald
Shattered
Self
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'
self
Safe Sets - Dying to Work in the Film Industry
Sacrifice
Self
A Journey to Sundance
Unferth
A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf
Wild Horse Nine
Breaking Rachmaninoff
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
147
Gender
Male
Birthday
1953-12-09
Place of Birth
Christopher, Illinois, USA
Also Known As
جون مالكوفيتش