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John Malkovich

John Malkovich

Acting

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).

Filmography Movies

Acting

Poster for Dangerous Liaisons
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Dangerous Liaisons

7.2(1.3K)
Dangerous Liaisons
Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont
Poster for Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA
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Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA

7.4(0.1K)
Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA
Port (archive footage)
Poster for Being John Malkovich
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Being John Malkovich

7.4(4.8K)
Being John Malkovich
John Horatio Malkovich
Poster for The Killing Fields
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The Killing Fields

7.5(0.8K)
The Killing Fields
Al Rockoff
Poster for Rounders
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Rounders

7.0(1.9K)
Rounders
Teddy KGB
Poster for Con Air
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Con Air

6.8(4.7K)
Con Air
Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom
Poster for The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
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The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

6.4(1.6K)
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Charles VII
Poster for Afterwards
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Afterwards

5.5(0.1K)
Afterwards
Joseph Kay
Poster for Beowulf
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Beowulf

5.9(3.0K)
Beowulf
Unferth
Poster for Eragon
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Eragon

5.1(3.4K)
Eragon
King Galbatorix

Production

Poster for The Dancer Upstairs
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The Dancer Upstairs

6.1(0.1K)
The Dancer Upstairs
Director
Poster for Juno
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Juno

7.1(7.6K)
Juno
Producer
Poster for The Libertine
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The Libertine

5.9(0.5K)
The Libertine
Producer
Poster for Art School Confidential
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Art School Confidential

6.1(0.2K)
Art School Confidential
Producer
Poster for Kill the Poor
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Kill the Poor

5.3(0.0K)
Kill the Poor
Producer
Poster for The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower

7.8(11.2K)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Producer
Poster for Young Adult
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Young Adult

5.8(1.3K)
Young Adult
Executive Producer
Poster for Demolition
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Demolition

6.8(2.5K)
Demolition
Producer
Poster for Shattered
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Shattered

5.7(0.2K)
Shattered
Producer
Poster for Ghost World
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Ghost World

7.1(1.6K)
Ghost World
Producer

Gallery

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