Known For
Acting
Born
Dec 09, 1953
Place of Birth
Christopher, Illinois, USA
Credits
198 titles
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).
Known For
Filmography
Wild Horse Nine
Chris
Sacrifice
Gunnar
In the Hand of Dante
Joe Black
Being Related to John Malkovich
Self
The Yellow Tie
Sergiu Celibidache
The Life of Mirrors
Lubach
Opus
Alfred Moretti
Safe Sets: Dying to Work in the Film Industry
self
The Line
Beach Miller
Unsinkable
Chief Engineer Pollard
RIPLEY
Reeves Minot
The New Look
Lucien Lelong
Mr. Blake at Your Service!
Andrew Blake
Fool's Paradise
Ed Cote
One Ranger
Geddes
Breaking Rachmaninoff
Seneca
Seneca
A Journey to Sundance
Self
Mindcage
The Artist
Savage Salvation
Peter
White Elephant
Glen Follett
Chariot
Dr. Karn
Shattered
Ronald
The Survivalist
Aaron Ramsey
Ten Year Old Tom
Mr. B (voice)
Rogue Hostage
Sam Nelson
Last Call
Dr. Felton
Valley of the Gods
Wes Tauros
Ava
Duke
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
The Impressive Clergyman
Space Force
Dr. Adrian Mallory
Arkansas
Bright
The New Pope
Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox
Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona
Self - Narrator (voice)
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Judge Edward D. Cowart
Gotta Get Down to It
Sound Mixer
Velvet Buzzsaw
Piers
The ABC Murders
Hercule Poirot
Bird Box
Douglas
The Music Critic
The Narrator
Mile 22
Bishop
Supercon
Sid Newberry
Casanova Gene
Bullet Head
Walker
Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA
Port (archive footage)
The Wilde Wedding
Laurence
I Love You, Daddy
Leslie Goodwin
About Love. Adults Only
Ed
Just Call Me God
Satur Diman Cha