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Name
John Malkovich

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1953-12-09 (73 years old)

Place of Birth
Christopher, Illinois, USA

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).

Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

1988 Dangerous Liaisons as Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont
2017 Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA as Port (archive footage)
1999 Being John Malkovich as John Horatio Malkovich
1984 The Killing Fields as Al Rockoff
1998 Rounders as Teddy KGB
1997 Con Air as Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom
1999 The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc as Charles VII
2008 Afterwards as Joseph Kay
2007 Beowulf as Unferth (Voice)
2006 Eragon as King Galbatorix
1987 Empire of the Sun as Basie
2008 Changeling as Rev. Gustav Briegleb
1992 Jennifer Eight as Agent St. Anne
2002 Ripley's Game as Tom Ripley
1994 Heart of Darkness as Kurtz
2000 Shadow of the Vampire as F. W. Murnau
1996 Mulholland Falls as General Thomas Timms
2008 Burn After Reading as Osborne Cox
2023 Seneca as Seneca
2010 Jonah Hex as Turnbull
1990 The Sheltering Sky as Port
2005 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as Humma Kavula
2001 Knockaround Guys as Teddy Deserve
2004 The Libertine as Charles II
2008 In Tranzit as Pavlov
1987 Making Mr. Right as Jeff Peters / Ulysses
2003 Johnny English as Pascal Sauvage
1996 Mary Reilly as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde
1995 Beyond the Clouds as The Director
2008 Disgrace as David Lurie
2023 One Ranger as Geddes
1985 Death of a Salesman as Biff Loman
1998 The Man in the Iron Mask as Athos
2006 Art School Confidential as Professor Sandiford
1992 Of Mice and Men as Lennie Small
2008 Mutant Chronicles as Constantine
1993 In the Line of Fire as Mitch Leary
2005 Colour Me Kubrick as Alan Conway
1984 Places in the Heart as Mr. Will
Soon Lost and Found in Paris as Wim Waldemar
2006 Klimt as Gustav Klimt
1996 The Portrait of a Lady as Gilbert Osmond
2011 Transformers: Dark of the Moon as Bruce Brazos
2008 The Great Buck Howard as Buck Howard
2008 Gardens of the Night as Michael
2008 Music at the Sea as Self
2010 RED as Marvin Boggs
1999 Time Regained as Baron de Charlus
2001 Savage Souls as Monsieur Numance
1996 The Ogre as Abel
2010 Secretariat as Lucien Laurin
1986 Rocket to the Moon as Ben Stark
1991 Queens Logic as Eliot
1999 RKO 281 as Herman Mankiewicz
1988 Miles from Home as Barry Maxwell
1991 Shadows and Fog as Clown
1987 The Glass Menagerie as Tom Wingfield
2013 Warm Bodies as Colonel Grigio
2012 Drunkboat as Mort
1991 The Object of Beauty as Jake Bartholomew
2023 Mr. Blake at Your Service! as Andrew Blake
2012 Lines of Wellington as General Wellington
1995 The Convent as Michael
2013 RED 2 as Marvin Boggs
1991 Old Times
2008 Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies as Narrator
2013 Siberian Education as Grandfather Kuzya
1999 Ladies Room as Roberto
2013 Ecstasy as Vinny
2014 Cesar Chavez as Bogdanovitch
1984 True West as Lee
2022 White Elephant as Glen Follett
2001 Hotel as Omar Jonnson
2026 In the Hand of Dante as Joe Black
2014 Penguins of Madagascar as Dave (voice)
2014 Cut Bank as Sheriff Vogel
2024 The Line as Beach Miller
2025 Opus as Alfred Moretti
2014 Noseland as Self
2014 Casanova Variations as Giacomo
1985 Eleni as Nicholas 'Nick' Gage
2010 Saturday Night as Self
1987 Santabear's High Flying Adventure as Santa Claus (voice)
2009 SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas as (archive footage)
1996 Cannes Man as Self
2022 Mindcage as The Artist
2025 The Yellow Tie as Sergiu Celibidache
1981 Word of Honor as Gary
2002 Hideous Man as Narrator
1981 American Dream
2003 A Talking Picture as Comandante John Walesa
2016 Zoolander 2 as Chazz Spencer
2014 Le paradoxe de John Malkovich as Himself
2001 I’m Going Home as John Crawford
2016 Deepwater Horizon as Donald Vidrine
2002 Adaptation. as John Malkovich (uncredited)
1995 To Make a Film Is to Be Alive as Self (uncredited)
2017 Unlocked as Bob Hunter
2016 Psychogenic Fugue as All characters
2018 Supercon as Sid Newberry
2020 Valley of the Gods as Wes Tauros
2020 Last Call as Dr. Felton
2017 About Love. Adults Only as Ed
1993 Alive as Carlitos Páez / Narrator (uncredited)
2012 All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set as Self
2017 The Wilde Wedding as Laurence
2017 I Love You, Daddy as Leslie Goodwin
2018 Bird Box as Douglas
2017 Bullet Head as Walker
1997 Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady as Self
2009 La Traversée du désir as Self
2018 Mile 22 as Bishop
2019 Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile as Judge Edward D. Cowart
2018 Casanova Gene
2019 Velvet Buzzsaw as Piers
2014 Jack Unterweger - The Charming Serial Killer
2010 The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer as Jack Unterweger
2020 Ava as Duke
2023 Fool's Paradise as Ed Cote
2020 Arkansas as Bright
2002 The Dancer Upstairs as Abimael Guzman (uncredited)
2011 100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story as Self
2012 Side by Side as Self
1987 The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun as Self
Soon A Winter's Journey as Leiermann
1990 Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter as Self
1989 Decade as Self
2022 Savage Salvation as Peter
1978 A Wedding as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
2021 The Survivalist as Aaron Ramsey
2018 The Music Critic as The Narrator
1986 Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’ as Self / Biff
2022 Chariot as Dr. Karn
2021 Rogue Hostage as Sam Nelson
2017 Just Call Me God as Satur Diman Cha
2014 The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover as Dave / Dr. Octavius Brine (voice)
2022 Shattered as Ronald
2005 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' as Self
2024 Safe Sets: Dying to Work in the Film Industry as self
2026 Sacrifice as Gunnar
2023 A Journey to Sundance as Self
Soon A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf as Unferth
2026 Wild Horse Nine as Chris
2023 Breaking Rachmaninoff
1992 Annie Lennox: Totally Diva
2007 Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
2025 The Life of Mirrors
2008 Finding the Burn as Self / Osborne Cox (archive footage)
2008 Welcome Back, George as Self
1983 Say Goodnight, Gracie as Steve
2011 Butterflies as Man
2026 Being Related to John Malkovich as Self

1996 The Daily Show ( 3 episodes ) as Self
2001 Friday Night with Jonathan Ross ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
2002 Napoleon ( 4 episodes ) as Charles de Talleyrand
1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
2011 The Jonathan Ross Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
2005 De Wereld Draait Door ( 1 episode ) as Self
2000 Les Misérables ( 4 episodes ) as Javert
2005 The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson ( 1 episode ) as Self
2014 Crossbones ( 9 episodes ) as Blackbeard
1975 Saturday Night Live ( 3 episodes ) as Self - Host
1986 American Masters ( 1 episode ) as Self
1994 Zona+ ( 1 episode ) as Próprio
2021 Ten Year Old Tom ( 40 episodes ) as Mr. B (voice)
1981 Wetten, dass..? ( 1 episode ) as Self
2008 Projectorparishilton ( 1 episode )
2007 The Graham Norton Show ( 3 episodes ) as Self
2020 Home Movie: The Princess Bride ( 1 episode ) as The Impressive Clergyman
2024 The New Look ( 10 episodes ) as Lucien Lelong
2018 The ABC Murders ( 3 episodes ) as Hercule Poirot
2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers ( 1 episode ) as Self
1990 Romy Award ( 1 episode ) as Presenter
2020 The New Pope ( 9 episodes ) as Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox
2024 RIPLEY ( 1 episode ) as Reeves Minot
2020 Space Force ( 17 episodes ) as Dr. Adrian Mallory
2019 Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona ( 8 episodes ) as Self - Narrator (voice)
1991 Performance ( 1 episode ) as Deeley
2002 Gero von Boehm begegnet... ( 1 episode ) as Self
2024 Unsinkable ( 11 episodes ) as Chief Engineer Pollard
2016 Billions ( 7 episodes ) as Grigor Andolov
2025 Lubach ( 1 episode )
2006 On n'est pas couché ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
Soon Bishop ( 1 episode ) as Lincoln Graves
1982 Late Night with David Letterman ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
1982 American Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Lee
1982 American Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Ben Stark
1993 Late Show with David Letterman ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
2024 Bad Monkey ( 10 episodes ) as Spencer

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