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John Malkovich

Profession
Acting
Born
December 9, 1953 · 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).

Known for

The Perks of Being a Wallflower poster
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Film · 2012 · ★ 7.8
Bird Box poster
Bird Box
Film · 2018 · ★ 6.8
Transformers: Dark of the Moon poster
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Film · 2011 · ★ 6.2
Juno poster
Juno
Film · 2007 · ★ 7.1
RED poster
RED
Film · 2010 · ★ 6.7
Warm Bodies poster
Warm Bodies
Film · 2013 · ★ 6.5
Burn After Reading poster
Burn After Reading
Film · 2008 · ★ 6.7
Deepwater Horizon poster
Deepwater Horizon
Film · 2016 · ★ 6.9
Being John Malkovich poster
Being John Malkovich
Film · 1999 · ★ 7.4
Con Air poster
Con Air
Film · 1997 · ★ 6.8
Changeling poster
Changeling
Film · 2008 · ★ 7.6
Penguins of Madagascar poster
Penguins of Madagascar
Film · 2014 · ★ 6.6

Filmography