John Malkovich
Born December 09, 1953 (Age: 72)
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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).
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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Filmography
Opus
2025
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as Alfred Moretti
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Age: 71
Mr. Blake at Your Service!
2023
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as Andrew Blake
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Age: 69
Fool's Paradise
2023
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as Ed Cote
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Age: 69
A Journey to Sundance
2023
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as Self
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Age: 69
Ava
2020
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as Duke
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Age: 66
Velvet Buzzsaw
2019
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as Piers
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Age: 65
Bird Box
2018
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as Douglas
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Age: 65
Mile 22
2018
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as Bishop
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Age: 64
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
2017
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as Port (archive footage)
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Age: 63
About Love. Adults Only
2017
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as Ed
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Age: 63
Deepwater Horizon
2016
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as Donald Vidrine
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Age: 62
Zoolander 2
2016
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as Chazz Spencer
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Age: 62
Penguins of Madagascar
2014
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as Dave (voice)
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Age: 60
Cut Bank
2014
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as Sheriff Vogel
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Age: 60
RED 2
2013
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as Marvin Boggs
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Age: 59
Warm Bodies
2013
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as Colonel Grigio
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Age: 59
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2011
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as Bruce Brazos
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Age: 57
RED
2010
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as Marvin Boggs
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Age: 56
Secretariat
2010
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as Lucien Laurin
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Age: 56
Jonah Hex
2010
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as Turnbull
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Age: 56
Changeling
2008
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as Rev. Gustav Briegleb
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Age: 54
Burn After Reading
2008
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as Osborne Cox
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Age: 54
Mutant Chronicles
2008
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as Constantine
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Age: 54
The Great Buck Howard
2008
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as Buck Howard
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Age: 54
Beowulf
2007
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as Unferth
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Age: 53
Eragon
2006
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as King Galbatorix
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Age: 53
Art School Confidential
2006
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as Professor Sandiford
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Age: 52
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005
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as Humma Kavula
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Age: 51
The Libertine
2004
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as Charles II
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Age: 50
Johnny English
2003
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as Pascal Sauvage
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Age: 49
Adaptation.
2002
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as John Malkovich (uncredited)
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Age: 48
The Dancer Upstairs
2002
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as Abimael Guzman (uncredited)
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Age: 48
Ripley's Game
2002
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as Tom Ripley
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Age: 48
No Image
Hideous Man
2002
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as Narrator
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Age: 48
Knockaround Guys
2001
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as Teddy Deserve
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Age: 47
Shadow of the Vampire
2000
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as F. W. Murnau
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Age: 46
Being John Malkovich
1999
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as John Horatio Malkovich
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Age: 45
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
1999
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as Charles VII
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Age: 45
Rounders
1998
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as Teddy KGB
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Age: 44
The Man in the Iron Mask
1998
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as Athos
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Age: 44
Con Air
1997
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as Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom
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Age: 43
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
1997
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as Self
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Age: 43
The Portrait of a Lady
1996
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as Gilbert Osmond
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Age: 42
The Ogre
1996
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as Abel
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Age: 42
Mulholland Falls
1996
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as General Thomas Timms
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Age: 42
Mary Reilly
1996
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as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde
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Age: 42
In the Line of Fire
1993
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as Mitch Leary
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Age: 39
Alive
1993
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as Carlitos Páez / Narrator (uncredited)
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Age: 39
Jennifer Eight
1992
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as Agent St. Anne
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Age: 38
Of Mice and Men
1992
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as Lennie Small
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Age: 38
Shadows and Fog
1991
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as Clown
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Age: 37
The Object of Beauty
1991
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as Jake Bartholomew
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Age: 37
Queens Logic
1991
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as Eliot
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Age: 37
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
1990
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as Self
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Age: 36
The Sheltering Sky
1990
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as Port
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Age: 36
Dangerous Liaisons
1988
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as Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont
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Age: 35
Miles from Home
1988
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as Barry Maxwell
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Age: 34
Empire of the Sun
1987
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as Basie
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Age: 34
The Glass Menagerie
1987
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as Tom Wingfield
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Age: 33
Rocket to the Moon
1986
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as Ben Stark
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Age: 32
The Killing Fields
1984
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as Al Rockoff
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Age: 30
Places in the Heart
1984
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as Mr. Will
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Age: 30
Say Goodnight, Gracie
1983
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as Steve
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Age: 29