John Malkovich
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1953-12-09 (71 years old)
Place of Birth
Christopher, Illinois, USA
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).
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Acting
A Journey to Sundance
as Self
Thelma
as Walker Percy
The Yellow Tie
as Sergiu Celibidache
A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf
as Unferth
A Winter's Journey
as Leiermann
(2025)
(2025)
Opus
as Alfred Moretti
(2024)
The Line
as Beach Miller
(2024)
(2023)
Mr. Blake At Your Service!
as Andrew Blake
(2023)
One Ranger
as Geddes
(2023)
Fool's Paradise
as Ed Cote
(2023)
Seneca
as Seneca
(2023)
(2022)
Shattered
as Ronald
(2022)
Mindcage
as The Artist
(2022)
Savage Salvation
as Peter
(2022)
White Elephant
as Glen Follett
(2022)
Chariot
as Dr. Karn
(2021)
Rogue Hostage
as Sam Nelson
(2021)
The Survivalist
as Aaron Ramsey
(2020)
Ava
as Duke
(2020)
Arkansas
as Bright
(2020)
Last Call
as Dr. Felton
(2020)
Valley of the Gods
as Wes Tauros
(2019)
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
as Judge Edward D. Cowart
(2019)
Velvet Buzzsaw
as Piers
(2018)
Bird Box
as Douglas
(2018)
Mile 22
as Bishop
(2018)
Supercon
as Sid Newberry
(2018)
The Music Critic
as The Narrator
(2018)
(2017)
Unlocked
as Bob Hunter
(2017)
Bullet Head
as Walker
(2017)
The Wilde Wedding
as Laurence
(2017)
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
as Port (archive footage)
(2017)
About Love. Adults Only
as лектор Эд
(2017)
I Love You, Daddy
as Leslie Goodwin
(2017)
Just Call Me God
as Satur Diman Cha
(2016)
Deepwater Horizon
as Donald Vidrine
(2016)
Zoolander 2
as Chazz Spencer
(2016)
Psychogenic Fugue
as All characters
(2014)
Penguins of Madagascar
as Dave (voice)
(2014)
Casanova Variations
as Giacomo
(2014)
Cut Bank
as Sheriff Vogel
(2014)
Cesar Chavez
as Bogdanovitch
(2014)
Noseland
as Self
(2014)
The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation Search and Rescue
as Dave / Dr. Octavius Brine (voice)
(2014)
(2014)
Le paradoxe de John Malkovich
as Himself
(2013)
RED 2
as Marvin Boggs
(2013)
Warm Bodies
as Colonel Grigio
(2013)
Siberian Education
as Grandfather Kuzya
(2013)
Ecstasy
as Vinny
(2012)
Side by Side
as Self
(2012)
Lines of Wellington
as General Wellington
(2012)
Drunkboat
as Mort
(2012)
(2011)
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
as Bruce Brazos
(2011)
(2010)
RED
as Marvin Boggs
(2010)
Secretariat
as Lucien Laurin
(2010)
Jonah Hex
as Turnbull
(2010)
Saturday Night
as Self
(2010)
The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer
as Jack Unterweger
(2009)
La Traversée du désir
as Self
(2009)
(2008)
Burn After Reading
as Osborne Cox
(2008)
Changeling
as Rev. Gustav Briegleb
(2008)
Mutant Chronicles
as Constantine
(2008)
Afterwards
as Joseph Kay
(2008)
In Tranzit
as Pavlov
(2008)
The Great Buck Howard
as Buck Howard
(2008)
Gardens of the Night
as Michael
(2008)
Disgrace
as David Lurie
(2008)
Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies
as Narrator
(2008)
Music at the Sea
as Self
(2007)
Beowulf
as Unferth
(2006)
Eragon
as King Galbatorix
(2006)
Art School Confidential
as Professor Sandiford
(2006)
Klimt
as Gustav Klimt
(2006)
The Call
as Exorcist
(2005)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
as Humma Kavula
(2005)
Colour Me Kubrick
as Alan Conway
(2005)
(2004)
The Libertine
as Charles II
(2003)
Johnny English
as Pascal Sauvage
(2003)
A Talking Picture
as Comandante John Walesa
(2002)
Adaptation.
as John Malkovich (uncredited)
(2002)
Ripley's Game
as Tom Ripley
(2002)
The Dancer Upstairs
as Abimael Guzman (uncredited)
(2002)
(2001)
Knockaround Guys
as Teddy Deserve
(2001)
Hotel
as Omar Jonnson
(2001)
I’m Going Home
as John Crawford
(2001)
Savage Souls
as Monsieur Numance
(2000)
Shadow of the Vampire
as F. W. Murnau
(2000)
RKO 281
as Herman Mankiewicz
(1999)
Being John Malkovich
as John Horatio Malkovich
(1999)
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
as Charles VII
(1999)
Time Regained
as Baron de Charlus
(1999)
Ladies Room
as Roberto
(1998)
The Man in the Iron Mask
as Athos
(1998)
Rounders
as Teddy KGB
(1997)
Con Air
as Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom
(1997)
Cannes Man
as Self
(1997)
(1996)
Mulholland Falls
as General Thomas Timms
(1996)
Mary Reilly
as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde
(1996)
The Portrait of a Lady
as Gilbert Osmond
(1996)
The Ogre
as Abel
(1995)
Beyond the Clouds
as The Director
(1995)
The Convent
as Michael
(1995)
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
as Self (uncredited)
(1993)
In the Line of Fire
as Mitch Leary
(1993)
Alive
as Carlitos Páez / Narrator (uncredited)
(1993)
Heart of Darkness
as Kurtz
(1992)
Of Mice and Men
as Lennie Small
(1992)
Jennifer Eight
as Agent St. Anne
(1992)
(1991)
Shadows and Fog
as Clown
(1991)
The Object of Beauty
as Jake Bartholomew
(1991)
Queens Logic
as Eliot
(1991)
(1990)
The Sheltering Sky
as Port
(1990)
(1989)
Decade
as Self
(1988)
Dangerous Liaisons
as Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont
(1988)
Miles from Home
as Barry Maxwell
(1987)
Empire of the Sun
as Basie
(1987)
Making Mr. Right
as Jeff Peters / Ulysses
(1987)
The Glass Menagerie
as Tom Wingfield
(1987)
(1987)
Santabear's High Flying Adventure
as Santa Claus (voice)
(1986)
(1986)
Rocket to the Moon
as Ben Stark
(1985)
Death of a Salesman
as Biff Loman
(1985)
Eleni
as Nicholas 'Nick' Gage
(1984)
The Killing Fields
as Al Rockoff
(1984)
Places in the Heart
as Mr. Will
(1984)
True West
as Lee
(1981)
Word of Honor
as Gary
(1981)
(1978)
A Wedding
as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Crew
(2022)
Shattered
Producer
(2020)
Last Call
Producer
(2019)
Gotta Get Down to It
Sound Mixer
(2017)
The Wilde Wedding
Executive Producer
(2016)
Demolition
Producer
(2014)
Strap Hanging
Director
(2012)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Producer
(2011)
Young Adult
Executive Producer
(2009)
Which Way Home
Executive Producer
(2008)
Snow Angel
Writer
(2007)
Juno
Producer
(2006)
Art School Confidential
Producer
(2004)
The Libertine
Producer
(2003)
Kill the Poor
Producer
(2002)
The Dancer Upstairs
Director, Producer
(2002)
Hideous Man
Director, Writer
(2001)
Ghost World
Producer
(2000)
Lady Behave
Director, Writer
(1988)
The Accidental Tourist
Executive Producer