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 |