John Malkovich
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 (69)
In the Hand of Dante
Opus
One Ranger
Savage Salvation
White Elephant
Mindcage
Shattered
Ava
Arkansas
Velvet Buzzsaw
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Bird Box
Mile 22
Bullet Head
Unlocked
The Wilde Wedding
Zoolander 2
Deepwater Horizon
Demolition
Penguins of Madagascar
Cesar Chavez
Warm Bodies
RED 2
Siberian Education
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Young Adult
RED
Jonah Hex
Secretariat
Changeling
Burn After Reading
Afterwards
Mutant Chronicles
Disgrace
Gardens of the Night
The Great Buck Howard
Beowulf
Juno
Eragon
Art School Confidential
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Libertine
Johnny English
Adaptation.
Ripley's Game
The Dancer Upstairs
Knockaround Guys
Ghost World
Shadow of the Vampire
Being John Malkovich
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
The Man in the Iron Mask
Rounders
Con Air
Mary Reilly
Mulholland Falls
The Portrait of a Lady
Alive
In the Line of Fire
Of Mice and Men
Jennifer Eight
Shadows and Fog
The Sheltering Sky
Dangerous Liaisons
The Accidental Tourist
Empire of the Sun
The Killing Fields