John Malkovich

Acting · 3.6 popularity

Age

Movies

152

Born: December 9, 1953
From: 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).

Works

152 films

Penguins of Madagascar

20146.5

Con Air

19976.8

RED

20106.7

Bird Box

20186.8

Mile 22

20186.3

Warm Bodies

20136.5

RED 2

20136.5

Deepwater Horizon

20166.9

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

20056.7

Beowulf

20075.9

Johnny English

20036.3

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

19996.4

The Man in the Iron Mask

19986.7

Adaptation.

20027.3

Zoolander 2

20164.9

Empire of the Sun

19877.5

Being John Malkovich

19997.4

In the Line of Fire

19937.0

Burn After Reading

20086.7

Changeling

20087.6

Eragon

20065.1

Ava

20205.8

Jonah Hex

20105.0

Dangerous Liaisons

19887.2

Alive

19936.9

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

20197.0

Rounders

19987.0

In the Hand of Dante

20265.5

Secretariat

20107.4

Shattered

20225.7

Unlocked

20176.3

Mindcage

20225.9

The Killing Fields

19847.5

Wild Horse Nine

2026

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

20116.2

In Tranzit

20085.5

Places in the Heart

19847.2

Of Mice and Men

19927.2

The Wilde Wedding

20175.1

The Libertine

20045.9

Bullet Head

20175.0

Savage Salvation

20226.1

The Portrait of a Lady

19966.0

Opus

20255.7

Cut Bank

20145.8

The Yellow Tie

20258.4

Art School Confidential

20066.1

One Ranger

20236.2

Ripley's Game

20026.4

Sacrifice

2026

Mutant Chronicles

20085.3

Mulholland Falls

19966.0

Velvet Buzzsaw

20195.4

Mary Reilly

19965.8

White Elephant

20225.8

Shadow of the Vampire

20006.7

Jennifer Eight

19926.1

Mr. Blake at Your Service!

20236.4

Siberian Education

20136.8

The Great Buck Howard

20086.0

Fool's Paradise

20234.6

The Line

20245.7

Klimt

20065.2

Shadows and Fog

19916.7

Knockaround Guys

20016.1

The Sheltering Sky

19906.5

SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas

20097.4

Lines of Wellington

20125.7

Death of a Salesman

19856.9

Arkansas

20205.8

The Survivalist

20214.5

Time Regained

19996.3

Gardens of the Night

20086.2

Afterwards

20085.5

Rogue Hostage

20215.6

Disgrace

20086.2

The Dancer Upstairs

20026.1

Beyond the Clouds

19956.2

Ladies Room

19994.0

About Love. Adults Only

20175.5

The Ogre

19966.4

Chariot

20224.5

RKO 281

19996.5

Queens Logic

19915.8

Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA

20177.4

Seneca

20235.0

Cesar Chavez

20146.2

Breaking Rachmaninoff

2023

Valley of the Gods

20205.2

A Wedding

19786.3

Miles from Home

19885.4

Last Call

20204.1

Cannes Man

19965.5

Side by Side

20127.3

The Object of Beauty

19915.3

Casanova Gene

20181.0

I Love You, Daddy

20175.7

A Journey to Sundance

2023

Heart of Darkness

19945.8

Eleni

19855.8

La Traversée du désir

20095.7

A Talking Picture

20036.7

Hideous Man

20024.0

Savage Souls

20014.9

Music at the Sea

2008

Hotel

20013.4

Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter

1990

Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady

19977.5

I’m Going Home

20016.8

Colour Me Kubrick

20055.7

To Make a Film Is to Be Alive

19957.0

Making Mr. Right

19875.2

The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun

19876.4

Le paradoxe de John Malkovich

2014

Santabear's High Flying Adventure

19878.0

Drunkboat

20125.0

Saturday Night

20107.7

Noseland

20145.0

Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’

1986

Old Times

19914.6

A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf

2026

The Life of Mirrors

2025

All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set

2012

Supercon

20184.5

The Music Critic

20184.5

Jack Unterweger - The Charming Serial Killer

20148.0

The Glass Menagerie

19876.3

Word of Honor

19817.5

The Convent

19955.3

Welcome Back, George

2008

Finding the Burn

2008

True West

19848.3

Psychogenic Fugue

20168.0

Say Goodnight, Gracie

198310.0

Casanova Variations

20145.3

Rocket to the Moon

198610.0

The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer

20104.0

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

Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies

20086.5

Annie Lennox: Totally Diva

19929.5

Decade

19898.5

American Dream

19819.0

The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover

20146.3

Just Call Me God

20176.0

A Winter's Journey

2026

Safe Sets: Dying to Work in the Film Industry

2024

Ecstasy

20137.0

100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story

20119.0

Butterflies

2011

Lost and Found in Paris

20261.0

Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place

2007

Being Related to John Malkovich

2026