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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).

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2020 Last Call as Dr. Felton Producer

2020 Valley of the Gods as Wes Tauros

2020 Ava as Duke

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2018 The Music Critic as The Narrator

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2018 Supercon as Sid Newberry

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2017 Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda as Port (archive footage)

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2017 I Love You, Daddy as Leslie Goodwin

2017 About Love. Adults Only as лектор Эд

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2017 Unlocked as Bob Hunter

2016 Deepwater Horizon as Donald Vidrine

2016 Psychogenic Fugue as All characters

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2016 Zoolander 2 as Chazz Spencer

2014 Penguins of Madagascar as Dave (voice)

2014 Cut Bank as Sheriff Vogel

2014 Casanova Variations as Giacomo

2014 The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation Search and Rescue as Dave / Dr. Octavius Brine (voice)

2014 Jack Unterweger - The Charming Serial Killer

2014 Noseland as Self

2014 Cesar Chavez as Bogdanovitch

2014 Le paradoxe de John Malkovich as Himself

2014 Strap Hanging Director

2013 RED 2 as Marvin Boggs

2013 Ecstasy as Vinny

2013 Siberian Education as Grandfather Kuzya

2013 Warm Bodies as Colonel Grigio

2012 Lines of Wellington as General Wellington

2012 The Perks of Being a Wallflower Producer

2012 Side by Side as Self

2012 Drunkboat as Mort

2012 All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set as Self

2011 Young Adult Executive Producer

2011 Transformers: Dark of the Moon as Bruce Brazos

2011 100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story as Self

2010 RED as Marvin Boggs

2010 Secretariat as Lucien Laurin

2010 Jonah Hex as Turnbull

2010 The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer as Jack Unterweger

2010 Saturday Night as Self

2009 SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas

2009 La Traversée du désir as Self

2009 Which Way Home Executive Producer

2008 Gardens of the Night as Michael

2008 Changeling as Rev. Gustav Briegleb

2008 Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies as Narrator

2008 Afterwards as Joseph Kay

2008 Music at the Sea as Self

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2008 Burn After Reading as Osborne Cox

2008 Mutant Chronicles as Constantine

2008 In Tranzit as Pavlov

2008 The Great Buck Howard as Buck Howard

2007 Juno Producer

2007 Beowulf as Unferth

2006 Eragon as King Galbatorix

2006 Art School Confidential as Professor Sandiford Producer

2006 Klimt as Gustav Klimt

2006 The Call as Exorcist

2005 Colour Me Kubrick as Alan Conway

2005 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' as Self

2005 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as Humma Kavula

2004 The Libertine as Charles II Producer

2003 A Talking Picture as Comandante John Walesa

2003 Kill the Poor Producer

2003 Johnny English as Pascal Sauvage

2002 Adaptation. as John Malkovich (uncredited)

2002 The Dancer Upstairs as Abimael Guzman (uncredited) Director, Producer

2002 Ripley's Game as Tom Ripley

2002 Hideous Man Director, Writer

2001 Knockaround Guys as Teddy Deserve

2001 Hotel as Omar Jonnson

2001 Ghost World Producer

2001 Savage Souls as Monsieur Numance

2001 I’m Going Home as John Crawford

2000 Shadow of the Vampire as F. W. Murnau

2000 RKO 281 as Herman Mankiewicz

2000 Lady Behave Director, Writer

1999 Ladies Room as Roberto

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

1998 Rounders as Teddy KGB

1998 The Man in the Iron Mask as Athos

1997 Con Air as Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom

1997 Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady as Self

1996 The Portrait of a Lady as Gilbert Osmond

1996 The Ogre as Abel

1996 Cannes Man as Self

1996 Mulholland Falls as General Thomas Timms

1996 Mary Reilly as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde

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 Heart of Darkness as Kurtz

1993 In the Line of Fire as Mitch Leary

1993 Alive as Carlitos Páez / Narrator (uncredited)

1992 Jennifer Eight as Agent St. Anne

1992 Of Mice and Men as Lennie Small

1992 Annie Lennox: Totally Diva

1991 Shadows and Fog as Clown

1991 Old Times

1991 The Object of Beauty as Jake Bartholomew

1991 Queens Logic as Eliot

1990 Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter as Self

1990 The Sheltering Sky as Port

1989 Decade as Self

1988 The Accidental Tourist Executive Producer

1988 Dangerous Liaisons as Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont

1988 Miles from Home as Barry Maxwell

1987 The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun as Self

1987 Empire of the Sun as Basie

1987 Santabear's High Flying Adventure as Santa Claus (voice)

1987 The Glass Menagerie as Tom Wingfield

1987 Making Mr. Right as Jeff Peters / Ulysses

1986 Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’ as Self / Biff

1986 Rocket to the Moon as Ben Stark

1985 Eleni as Nicholas 'Nick' Gage

1985 Death of a Salesman as Biff Loman

1984 The Killing Fields as Al Rockoff

1984 Places in the Heart as Mr. Will

1984 True West as Lee

1981 American Dream

1981 Word of Honor as Gary

1978 A Wedding as Wedding Guest (uncredited)

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