
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).
Acting (138 movies)

Dangerous Liaisons
1988

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
2017

Being John Malkovich
1999

The Killing Fields
1984

Rounders
1998

Con Air
1997

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
1999

Afterwards
2008

Beowulf
2007

Eragon
2006

Empire of the Sun
1987

Changeling
2008

Jennifer Eight
1992

Ripley's Game
2002

Heart of Darkness
1993

Shadow of the Vampire
2000

Mulholland Falls
1996

Burn After Reading
2008

Seneca
2023

Jonah Hex
2010

The Sheltering Sky
1990

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005

Knockaround Guys
2001

The Libertine
2004

In Tranzit
2008

Making Mr. Right
1987

Johnny English
2003

Mary Reilly
1996

Beyond the Clouds
1995

Disgrace
2008

One Ranger
2023

Death of a Salesman
1985

The Man in the Iron Mask
1998

Art School Confidential
2006

Of Mice and Men
1992

Mutant Chronicles
2008

In the Line of Fire
1993

Colour Me Kubrick
2005

Places in the Heart
1984

Klimt
2006

The Portrait of a Lady
1996

Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2011

The Great Buck Howard
2008

Gardens of the Night
2008

RED
2010

Time Regained
1999

Savage Souls
2001

The Ogre
1996

Secretariat
2010

Rocket to the Moon
1986

Queens Logic
1991

RKO 281
2000

Miles from Home
1988

Shadows and Fog
1991

The Glass Menagerie
1987

Warm Bodies
2013

Drunkboat
2012

The Object of Beauty
1991

Mr. Blake at Your Service!
2023

Lines of Wellington
2012

The Convent
1995

RED 2
2013

Old Times
1991

Siberian Education
2013

Ladies Room
1999

Ecstasy
2013

Cesar Chavez
2014

True West
1984

White Elephant
2022

Hotel
2001

In the Hand of Dante
2025

Penguins of Madagascar
2014

Cut Bank
2014

The Line
2024

Opus
2025

Noseland
2014

Casanova Variations
2014

Eleni
1985

Saturday Night
2010

SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas
2009

Cannes Man
1996

Mindcage
2022

The Yellow Tie
2025

Word of Honor
1981

American Dream
1981

A Talking Picture
2003

Zoolander 2
2016

I’m Going Home
2001

Deepwater Horizon
2016

Adaptation.
2002

To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
1995

Unlocked
2017

Psychogenic Fugue
2016

Supercon
2018

Valley of the Gods
2020

Last Call
2020

About Love. Adults Only
2017

Alive
1993

All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set
2012

The Wilde Wedding
2017
Directing (4 movies)
| Title | Year | Job | 
|---|---|---|
| The Accidental Tourist | 1988 | Executive Producer | 
| Lady Behave | 2000 | Writer | 
| Ghost World | 2001 | Producer | 
| Hideous Man | 2002 | Writer | 
| The Dancer Upstairs | 2002 | Producer | 
| Kill the Poor | 2003 | Producer | 
| The Libertine | 2004 | Producer | 
| Art School Confidential | 2006 | Producer | 
| Juno | 2007 | Producer | 
| Snow Angel | 2008 | Writer | 
| Which Way Home | 2009 | Executive Producer | 
| Young Adult | 2011 | Executive Producer | 
| The Perks of Being a Wallflower | 2012 | Producer | 
| Demolition | 2016 | Producer | 
| The Wilde Wedding | 2017 | Executive Producer | 
| Last Call | 2020 | Producer | 
| Shattered | 2022 | Producer | 
