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John Malkovich
John Malkovich

John Malkovich

ActingBorn December 9, 1953 (age 72)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).

Filmography

2026Movie
2026
Sacrifice

as Gunnar

Movie
2026Movie
2025
The Yellow Tie

as Sergiu Celibidache

Movie
2025TV
2025
Opus

as Alfred Moretti

Movie
2024
The Line

as Beach Miller

Movie
2024
Unsinkable

as Chief Engineer Pollard

TV
2024
RIPLEY

as Reeves Minot

TV
2024
The New Look

as Lucien Lelong

TV
2023Movie
2023
Fool's Paradise

as Ed Cote

Movie
2023
One Ranger

as Geddes

Movie
2023
Seneca

as Seneca

Movie
2023Movie
2022
Mindcage

as The Artist

Movie
2022Movie
2022
White Elephant

as Glen Follett

Movie
2022
Chariot

as Dr. Karn

Movie
2022
Shattered

as Ronald

Movie
2021
The Survivalist

as Aaron Ramsey

Movie
2021
Ten Year Old Tom

as Mr. B (voice)

TV
2021
Rogue Hostage

as Sam Nelson

Movie
2020
Last Call

as Dr. Felton

Movie
2020
Valley of the Gods

as Wes Tauros

Movie
2020
Ava

as Duke

Movie
2020
Home Movie: The Princess Bride

as The Impressive Clergyman

TV
2020
Space Force

as Dr. Adrian Mallory

TV
2020
Arkansas

as Bright

Movie
2020
The New Pope

as Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox

TV
2019
Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona

as Self - Narrator (voice)

TV
2019Movie
2019Movie
2018
The ABC Murders

as Hercule Poirot

TV
2018
Bird Box

as Douglas

Movie
2018
The Music Critic

as The Narrator

Movie
2018
Mile 22

as Bishop

Movie
2018
Supercon

as Sid Newberry

Movie
2018Movie
2017
Bullet Head

as Walker

Movie
2017
Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA

as Port (archive footage)

Movie
2017Movie
2017
I Love You, Daddy

as Leslie Goodwin

Movie
2017
Just Call Me God

as Satur Diman Cha

Movie
2017
Unlocked

as Bob Hunter

Movie
2016
Deepwater Horizon

as Donald Vidrine

Movie
2016
Psychogenic Fugue

as All characters

Movie
2016
Zoolander 2

as Chazz Spencer

Movie
2016
Billions

as Grigor Andolov

TV
2014
Penguins of Madagascar

as Dave (voice)

Movie
2014
Cut Bank

as Sheriff Vogel

Movie
2014Movie
2014Movie
2014
Crossbones

as Blackbeard

TV
2014
Noseland

as Self

Movie
2014
Cesar Chavez

as Bogdanovitch

Movie
2013
RED 2

as Marvin Boggs

Movie
2013
Ecstasy

as Vinny

Movie
2013
Siberian Education

as Grandfather Kuzya

Movie
2013
Warm Bodies

as Colonel Grigio

Movie
2012
Lines of Wellington

as General Wellington

Movie
2012Movie
2012
Drunkboat

as Mort

Movie
2011Movie
2011Movie
2010
RED

as Marvin Boggs

Movie
2010
Secretariat

as Lucien Laurin

Movie
2010
Jonah Hex

as Turnbull

Movie
2010Movie
2009Movie
2009Movie
2008
Finding the Burn

as Self / Osborne Cox (archive footage)

Movie
2008Movie
2008Movie
2008
Changeling

as Rev. Gustav Briegleb

Movie
2008
Afterwards

as Joseph Kay

Movie
2008Movie
2008
Disgrace

as David Lurie

Movie
2008
Burn After Reading

as Osborne Cox

Movie
2008
Mutant Chronicles

as Constantine

Movie
2008
In Tranzit

as Pavlov

Movie
2008
The Great Buck Howard

as Buck Howard

Movie
2007
Beowulf

as Unferth

Movie
2006
Eragon

as King Galbatorix

Movie
2006
On n'est pas couché

as Self - Guest

TV
2006
Art School Confidential

as Professor Sandiford

Movie
2006
Klimt

as Gustav Klimt

Movie
2005
Colour Me Kubrick

as Alan Conway

Movie
2005Movie
2004
The Libertine

as Charles II

Movie
2003
A Talking Picture

as Comandante John Walesa

Movie
2003
Johnny English

as Pascal Sauvage

Movie
2002
Adaptation.

as John Malkovich (uncredited)

Movie
2002
Napoleon

as Charles de Talleyrand

TV
2002
The Dancer Upstairs

as Abimael Guzman (uncredited)

Movie
2002
Ripley's Game

as Tom Ripley

Movie
2002
Hideous Man

as Narrator

Movie
2001
Knockaround Guys

as Teddy Deserve

Movie
2001TV
2001
Hotel

as Omar Jonnson

Movie
2001
Savage Souls

as Monsieur Numance

Movie
2001
I’m Going Home

as John Crawford

Movie
2000TV
2000
Shadow of the Vampire

as F. W. Murnau

Movie
1999
Ladies Room

as Roberto

Movie
1999
RKO 281

as Herman Mankiewicz

Movie
1999
Being John Malkovich

as John Horatio Malkovich

Movie
1999
Time Regained

as Baron de Charlus

Movie
1998
Rounders

as Teddy KGB

Movie
1998Movie
1997
Con Air

as Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom

Movie
1996
The Portrait of a Lady

as Gilbert Osmond

Movie
1996
The Ogre

as Abel

Movie
1996TV
1996
Cannes Man

as Self

Movie
1996
Mulholland Falls

as General Thomas Timms

Movie
1996
Mary Reilly

as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde

Movie
1995
Beyond the Clouds

as The Director

Movie
1995
The Convent

as Michael

Movie
1995
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive

as Self (uncredited)

Movie
1994
Zona+

as Próprio

TV
1993Movie
1993TV
1993
In the Line of Fire

as Mitch Leary

Movie
1993
Alive

as Carlitos Páez / Narrator (uncredited)

Movie
1992
Jennifer Eight

as Agent St. Anne

Movie
1992
Of Mice and Men

as Lennie Small

Movie
1991Movie
1991Movie
1991
Performance

as Deeley

TV
1991
The Object of Beauty

as Jake Bartholomew

Movie
1991
Queens Logic

as Eliot

Movie
1990Movie
1990
Romy Award

as Presenter

TV
1989
Decade

as Self

Movie
1988
Dangerous Liaisons

as Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont

Movie
1988
Miles from Home

as Barry Maxwell

Movie
1987Movie
1987
Santabear's High Flying Adventure

as Santa Claus (voice)

Movie
1987
The Glass Menagerie

as Tom Wingfield

Movie
1987
Making Mr. Right

as Jeff Peters / Ulysses

Movie
1986TV
1986
Rocket to the Moon

as Ben Stark

Movie
1985
Eleni

as Nicholas 'Nick' Gage

Movie
1985
Death of a Salesman

as Biff Loman

Movie
1984
The Killing Fields

as Al Rockoff

Movie
1984Movie
1984
True West

as Lee

Movie
1983Movie
1982TV
1982TV
1982
American Playhouse

as Ben Stark

TV
1981TV
1981Movie
1978
A Wedding

as Wedding Guest (uncredited)

Movie
1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self - Host

TV
Movie
A Winter's Journey

as Leiermann

Movie
Bishop

as Lincoln Graves

TV

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayDecember 9, 1953
Place of BirthChristopher, Illinois, USA
Popularity3.5