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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2025 A Winter's Journey as Leiermann
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2024 Safe Sets - Dying to Work in the Film Industry as self
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2020 Last Call as Dr. Felton Producer
2020 Valley of the Gods as Wes Tauros
2020 Ava as Duke
2020 Arkansas as Bright
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2019 Gotta Get Down to It Sound Mixer
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2018 The Music Critic as The Narrator
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2018 Casanova Gene
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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
2016 Demolition Producer
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
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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
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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
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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
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2006 The Call as Exorcist
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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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