John Malkovich

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John Malkovich

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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).

Films Featuring John Malkovich

Dangerous Liaisons

19887.2

Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA

20177.4

Being John Malkovich

19997.4

The Killing Fields

19847.5

Rounders

19987.0

Con Air

19976.8

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

19996.4

Afterwards

20085.5

Beowulf

20075.9

Eragon

20065.1

Empire of the Sun

19877.5

Changeling

20087.6

Jennifer Eight

19926.1

Ripley's Game

20026.4

Heart of Darkness

19945.8

Shadow of the Vampire

20006.7

Mulholland Falls

19966.0

Seneca

20235.0

Burn After Reading

20086.7

Jonah Hex

20105.0

The Sheltering Sky

19906.5

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

20056.7

Knockaround Guys

20016.1

The Libertine

20045.9

In Tranzit

20085.5

Making Mr. Right

19875.2

Johnny English

20036.3

Mary Reilly

19965.8

Beyond the Clouds

19956.2

Disgrace

20086.2

One Ranger

20236.3

Death of a Salesman

19856.9

The Man in the Iron Mask

19986.7

Art School Confidential

20066.1

Of Mice and Men

19927.2

Mutant Chronicles

20085.3

In the Line of Fire

19937.0

Colour Me Kubrick

20055.7

Places in the Heart

19847.2

Lost and Found in Paris

1.0

Klimt

20065.2

The Portrait of a Lady

19965.9

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

20116.2

The Great Buck Howard

20086.0

Gardens of the Night

20086.2

Music at the Sea

Music at the Sea

2008

RED

20106.7

Time Regained

19996.3

Savage Souls

20014.9

The Ogre

19966.4

Secretariat

20107.4

Rocket to the Moon

198610.0

Queens Logic

19915.8

RKO 281

19996.5

Miles from Home

19885.4

Shadows and Fog

19916.7

The Glass Menagerie

19876.3

Warm Bodies

20136.5

Drunkboat

20125.0

The Object of Beauty

19915.3

Mr. Blake at Your Service!

20236.4

Lines of Wellington

20125.7

The Convent

19955.3

RED 2

20136.5

Old Times

19914.6

Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies

Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies

20086.5

Siberian Education

20136.8

Ladies Room

19994.0

Ecstasy

20137.0

Cesar Chavez

20146.2

True West

19848.3

White Elephant

20225.8

Hotel

20013.4

In the Hand of Dante

20265.4

Penguins of Madagascar

20146.5

Cut Bank

20145.8

The Line

20245.7

Opus

20255.6

Noseland

20145.0

Casanova Variations

20145.3

Eleni

19855.9

Saturday Night

20107.7

Santabear's High Flying Adventure

Santabear's High Flying Adventure

19878.0

SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas

20097.2

Cannes Man

19965.3

Mindcage

20225.9

The Yellow Tie

20258.5

Word of Honor

19817.5

Hideous Man

20024.0

American Dream

19819.0

A Talking Picture

20036.7

Zoolander 2

20164.9

Le paradoxe de John Malkovich

Le paradoxe de John Malkovich

2014

I’m Going Home

20016.8

Deepwater Horizon

20166.9

Adaptation.

20027.3

To Make a Film Is to Be Alive

19957.0

Unlocked

20176.3

Psychogenic Fugue

20168.0

Supercon

20184.5

Valley of the Gods

20205.2

Last Call

20204.1

About Love. Adults Only

20175.5

Alive

19936.9

All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set

2012

The Wilde Wedding

20175.1

I Love You, Daddy

20175.7

Bird Box

20186.8

Bullet Head

20175.0

Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady

19977.5

La Traversée du désir

20095.7

Mile 22

20186.3

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

20197.0

Casanova Gene

20181.0

Velvet Buzzsaw

20195.4

Jack Unterweger - The Charming Serial Killer

20148.0

The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer

20104.0

Ava

20205.8

Fool's Paradise

20234.6

Arkansas

20205.8

The Dancer Upstairs

20026.1

100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story

20119.0

Side by Side

20127.3

The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun

19876.4

A Winter's Journey

Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter

1990

Decade

19898.5

Savage Salvation

20226.1

A Wedding

19786.3

The Survivalist

20214.5

The Music Critic

20184.5

Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’

1986

Chariot

20224.5

Rogue Hostage

20215.6

Just Call Me God

20176.0

The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover

20146.3

Shattered

20225.7

Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

2005

Safe Sets: Dying to Work in the Film Industry

2024

Sacrifice

20264.8

A Journey to Sundance

2023

A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf

A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf

Wild Horse Nine

2026

Breaking Rachmaninoff

2023

Annie Lennox: Totally Diva

19929.5

Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place

Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place

2007

The Life of Mirrors

2025

Finding the Burn

Finding the Burn

2008

Welcome Back, George

Welcome Back, George

2008

Say Goodnight, Gracie

198310.0

Butterflies

2011

Being Related to John Malkovich

2026