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John Malkovich
Biography
Life and career
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
67 films

Opus
2025as Alfred Moretti

Mr. Blake at Your Service!
2023as Andrew Blake

One Ranger
2023as Geddes

Mindcage
2022as The Artist

Savage Salvation
2022as Peter

White Elephant
2022as Glen Follett

Shattered
2022as RonaldProducer

Ava
2020as Duke

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
2019as Judge Edward D. Cowart

Velvet Buzzsaw
2019as Piers

Bird Box
2018as Douglas

Mile 22
2018as Bishop

Bullet Head
2017as Walker

Unlocked
2017as Bob Hunter

Deepwater Horizon
2016as Donald Vidrine

Demolition
2016Producer

Zoolander 2
2016as Chazz Spencer

Penguins of Madagascar
2014as Dave (voice)

RED 2
2013as Marvin Boggs

Siberian Education
2013as Grandfather Kuzya

Warm Bodies
2013as Colonel Grigio

The Perks of Being a Wallflower
2012Producer

Side by Side
2012as Self

Young Adult
2011Executive Producer

Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2011as Bruce Brazos

RED
2010as Marvin Boggs

Secretariat
2010as Lucien Laurin

Jonah Hex
2010as Turnbull

Changeling
2008as Rev. Gustav Briegleb

Afterwards
2008as Joseph Kay

Burn After Reading
2008as Osborne Cox

Mutant Chronicles
2008as Constantine

The Great Buck Howard
2008as Buck Howard

Juno
2007Producer

Beowulf
2007as Unferth

Eragon
2006as King Galbatorix

Art School Confidential
2006as Professor SandifordProducer

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005as Humma Kavula

The Libertine
2004as Charles IIProducer

Johnny English
2003as Pascal Sauvage

Adaptation.
2002as John Malkovich (uncredited)

Knockaround Guys
2001as Teddy Deserve

Ghost World
2001Producer

Savage Souls
2001as Monsieur Numance

Shadow of the Vampire
2000as F. W. Murnau

Being John Malkovich
1999as John Horatio Malkovich

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
1999as Charles VII

Rounders
1998as Teddy KGB

The Man in the Iron Mask
1998as Athos

Con Air
1997as Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom

The Portrait of a Lady
1996as Gilbert Osmond

Mulholland Falls
1996as General Thomas Timms

Mary Reilly
1996as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde

Beyond the Clouds
1995as The Director

In the Line of Fire
1993as Mitch Leary

Alive
1993as Carlitos Páez / Narrator (uncredited)

Jennifer Eight
1992as Agent St. Anne

Of Mice and Men
1992as Lennie Small

Shadows and Fog
1991as Clown

The Sheltering Sky
1990as Port

The Accidental Tourist
1988Executive Producer

Dangerous Liaisons
1988as Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont

Empire of the Sun
1987as Basie

Death of a Salesman
1985as Biff Loman

The Killing Fields
1984as Al Rockoff

Places in the Heart
1984as Mr. Will

A Winter's Journey
as Leiermann