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).
Acting
Movie
Bird Box
as Douglas
2018
Movie
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
as Bruce Brazos
2011
Movie
RED
as Marvin Boggs
2010
Movie
Warm Bodies
as Colonel Grigio
2013
Movie
Burn After Reading
as Osborne Cox
2008
Movie
Deepwater Horizon
as Donald Vidrine
2016
Movie
Being John Malkovich
as John Horatio Malkovich
1999
Movie
Con Air
as Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom
1997
Movie
Changeling
as Rev. Gustav Briegleb
2008
Movie
Penguins of Madagascar
as Dave (voice)
2014
Movie
RED 2
as Marvin Boggs
2013
Movie
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
as Humma Kavula
2005
Movie
The Man in the Iron Mask
as Athos
1998
Movie
Johnny English
as Pascal Sauvage
2003
Movie
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
as Judge Edward D. Cowart
2019
Movie
Eragon
as King Galbatorix
2006
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Beowulf
as Unferth
2007
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Adaptation.
as John Malkovich (uncredited)
2002
Movie
Ava
as Duke
2020
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Mile 22
as Bishop
2018
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Zoolander 2
as Chazz Spencer
2016
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Empire of the Sun
as Basie
1987
Movie
Velvet Buzzsaw
as Piers
2019
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Rounders
as Teddy KGB
1998
Crew
Movie
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Producer
2012
Movie
Juno
Producer
2007
Movie
Demolition
Producer
2016
Movie
Ghost World
Producer
2001
Movie
Young Adult
Executive Producer
2011
Movie
The Libertine
Producer
2004
Movie
The Accidental Tourist
Executive Producer
1988
Movie
Art School Confidential
Producer
2006
Movie
Shattered
Producer
2022
Movie
The Wilde Wedding
Executive Producer
2017
Movie
The Dancer Upstairs
Director
2002
Movie
Which Way Home
Executive Producer
2009