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).
Known for
Credits
Penguins of Madagascar (2014)
as Dave (voice)
Con Air (1997)
as Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom
Bird Box (2018)
as Douglas
RED (2010)
as Marvin Boggs
Deepwater Horizon (2016)
as Donald Vidrine
Johnny English (2003)
as Pascal Sauvage
Warm Bodies (2013)
as Colonel Grigio
RED 2 (2013)
as Marvin Boggs
Burn After Reading (2008)
as Osborne Cox
Being John Malkovich (1999)
as John Horatio Malkovich
In the Line of Fire (1993)
as Mitch Leary
Beowulf (2007)
as Unferth (Voice)
The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)
as Athos
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)
as Charles VII
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
as Humma Kavula
Changeling (2008)
as Rev. Gustav Briegleb
Rounders (1998)
as Teddy KGB
Adaptation. (2002)
as John Malkovich (uncredited)
Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
as Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont
Zoolander 2 (2016)
as Chazz Spencer
Ava (2020)
as Duke
Mile 22 (2018)
as Bishop
Empire of the Sun (1987)
as Basie
Alive (1993)
as Carlitos Páez / Narrator (uncredited)
In the Hand of Dante (2026)
as Joe Black
Eragon (2006)
as King Galbatorix
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)
as Judge Edward D. Cowart
Jonah Hex (2010)
as Turnbull
The Killing Fields (1984)
as Al Rockoff
Wild Horse Nine (2026)
as Chris
Of Mice and Men (1992)
as Lennie Small
Secretariat (2010)
as Lucien Laurin
Mr. Blake at Your Service! (2023)
as Andrew Blake
Shattered (2022)
as Ronald
Opus (2025)
as Alfred Moretti
Mindcage (2022)
as The Artist
Bullet Head (2017)
as Walker
Sacrifice (2026)
as Gunnar
Unlocked (2017)
as Bob Hunter
Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)
as Piers
Places in the Heart (1984)
as Mr. Will
Ripley's Game (2002)
as Tom Ripley
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
as Bruce Brazos
The Libertine (2004)
as Charles II
Mulholland Falls (1996)
as General Thomas Timms
Knockaround Guys (2001)
as Teddy Deserve
Art School Confidential (2006)
as Professor Sandiford
Shadows and Fog (1991)
as Clown
One Ranger (2023)
as Geddes
Mutant Chronicles (2008)
as Constantine
White Elephant (2022)
as Glen Follett
Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
as F. W. Murnau
The Wilde Wedding (2017)
as Laurence
Savage Salvation (2022)
as Peter
The Sheltering Sky (1990)
as Port
The Portrait of a Lady (1996)
as Gilbert Osmond
The Yellow Tie (2025)
as Sergiu Celibidache
Jennifer Eight (1992)
as Agent St. Anne
The Great Buck Howard (2008)
as Buck Howard
Fool's Paradise (2023)
as Ed Cote
Rogue Hostage (2021)
as Sam Nelson
Afterwards (2008)
as Joseph Kay
In Tranzit (2008)
as Pavlov
Arkansas (2020)
as Bright
Siberian Education (2013)
as Grandfather Kuzya
Klimt (2006)
as Gustav Klimt
Mary Reilly (1996)
as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde
Cut Bank (2014)
as Sheriff Vogel
Beyond the Clouds (1995)
as The Director
The Survivalist (2021)
as Aaron Ramsey
Side by Side (2012)
as Self
Death of a Salesman (1985)
as Biff Loman
About Love. Adults Only (2017)
as Ed
SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas (2009)
as (archive footage)
Time Regained (1999)
as Baron de Charlus
The Ogre (1996)
as Abel
Seneca (2023)
as Seneca
Gardens of the Night (2008)
as Michael
Making Mr. Right (1987)
as Jeff Peters / Ulysses
Queens Logic (1991)
as Eliot
Colour Me Kubrick (2005)
as Alan Conway
Disgrace (2008)
as David Lurie
Cesar Chavez (2014)
as Bogdanovitch
Miles from Home (1988)
as Barry Maxwell
Chariot (2022)
as Dr. Karn
The Object of Beauty (1991)
as Jake Bartholomew
Ladies Room (1999)
as Roberto
La Traversée du désir (2009)
as Self
Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA (2017)
as Port (archive footage)
The Dancer Upstairs (2002)
as Abimael Guzman (uncredited)
The Line (2024)
as Beach Miller
A Wedding (1978)
as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
A Talking Picture (2003)
as Comandante John Walesa
Last Call (2020)
as Dr. Felton
I’m Going Home (2001)
as John Crawford
Lines of Wellington (2012)
as General Wellington
I Love You, Daddy (2017)
as Leslie Goodwin
RKO 281 (1999)
as Herman Mankiewicz
Saturday Night (2010)
as Self
Cannes Man (1996)
as Self
Eleni (1985)
as Nicholas 'Nick' Gage
Supercon (2018)
as Sid Newberry
Hotel (2001)
as Omar Jonnson
Casanova Gene (2018)
Actor
The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover (2014)
as Dave / Dr. Octavius Brine (voice)
Valley of the Gods (2020)
as Wes Tauros
Heart of Darkness (1994)
as Kurtz
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady (1997)
as Self
Noseland (2014)
as Self
A Journey to Sundance (2023)
as Self
The Life of Mirrors (2025)
Actor
Breaking Rachmaninoff (2023)
Actor
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter (1990)
as Self
The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun (1987)
as Self
The Glass Menagerie (1987)
as Tom Wingfield
A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf (—)
as Unferth
The Convent (1995)
as Michael
Casanova Variations (2014)
as Giacomo
All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set (2012)
as Self
Santabear's High Flying Adventure (1987)
as Santa Claus (voice)
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive (1995)
as Self (uncredited)
Drunkboat (2012)
as Mort
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’ (1986)
as Self / Biff
Savage Souls (2001)
as Monsieur Numance
Hideous Man (2002)
as Narrator
Annie Lennox: Totally Diva (1992)
Actor
Music at the Sea (2008)
as Self
Safe Sets: Dying to Work in the Film Industry (2024)
as self
Word of Honor (1981)
as Gary
Old Times (1991)
Actor
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)
as Self
Finding the Burn (2008)
as Self / Osborne Cox (archive footage)
Le paradoxe de John Malkovich (2014)
as Himself
The Music Critic (2018)
as The Narrator
Jack Unterweger - The Charming Serial Killer (2014)
Actor
True West (1984)
as Lee
Decade (1989)
as Self
Just Call Me God (2017)
as Satur Diman Cha
Rocket to the Moon (1986)
as Ben Stark
American Dream (1981)
Actor
Psychogenic Fugue (2016)
as All characters
Butterflies (2011)
as Man
A Winter's Journey (—)
as Leiermann
The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer (2010)
as Jack Unterweger
Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies (2008)
as Narrator
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place (2007)
Actor
100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story (2011)
as Self
Say Goodnight, Gracie (1983)
as Steve
Ecstasy (2013)
as Vinny
Welcome Back, George (2008)
as Self
Being Related to John Malkovich (2026)
as Self
Lost and Found in Paris (—)
as Wim Waldemar