
John Malkovich
Acting
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).
Born: December 9, 1953 · Christopher, Illinois, USA
Filmography (145)

Wild Horse Nine
2026

In the Hand of Dante
2025

Lubach
2025

Opus
2025

The Line
2024

RIPLEY
2024

The New Look
2024

Mr. Blake at Your Service!
2023

Fool's Paradise
2023

One Ranger
2023

Seneca
2023

Mindcage
2022

Savage Salvation
2022

White Elephant
2022

Chariot
2022

Shattered
2022

The Survivalist
2021

Ten Year Old Tom
2021

Rogue Hostage
2021

Last Call
2020

Valley of the Gods
2020

Ava
2020

Home Movie: The Princess Bride
2020

Space Force
2020

Arkansas
2020

The New Pope
2020

Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona
2019

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
2019

Velvet Buzzsaw
2019

The ABC Murders
2018

Bird Box
2018

Mile 22
2018

Supercon
2018

Bullet Head
2017

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
2017

The Wilde Wedding
2017

I Love You, Daddy
2017

About Love. Adults Only
2017

Unlocked
2017

Deepwater Horizon
2016

Demolition
2016

Zoolander 2
2016

Billions
2016

Penguins of Madagascar
2014

Cut Bank
2014

Casanova Variations
2014

The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation Search and Rescue
2014

Crossbones
2014

Cesar Chavez
2014

Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014

RED 2
2013

Siberian Education
2013

Warm Bodies
2013

Lines of Wellington
2012

The Perks of Being a Wallflower
2012

Side by Side
2012

Drunkboat
2012

Young Adult
2011

The Jonathan Ross Show
2011

Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2011

RED
2010

Secretariat
2010

Jonah Hex
2010

Saturday Night
2010

SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas
2009

Which Way Home
2009

Gardens of the Night
2008

Changeling
2008

Afterwards
2008

Disgrace
2008

Burn After Reading
2008

Mutant Chronicles
2008

Projectorparishilton
2008

In Tranzit
2008

The Great Buck Howard
2008

Juno
2007

Beowulf
2007

The Graham Norton Show
2007

Eragon
2006

On n'est pas couché
2006

Art School Confidential
2006

Klimt
2006

De Wereld Draait Door
2005

Colour Me Kubrick
2005

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005

The Libertine
2004

A Talking Picture
2003

Johnny English
2003

Adaptation.
2002

Napoleon
2002

The Dancer Upstairs
2002

Ripley's Game
2002

Knockaround Guys
2001

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001

Hotel
2001

Ghost World
2001

Savage Souls
2001

I’m Going Home
2001

Les Misérables
2000

Shadow of the Vampire
2000

Ladies Room
1999

RKO 281
1999

Being John Malkovich
1999

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
1999

Time Regained
1999

Rounders
1998

The Man in the Iron Mask
1998

Con Air
1997

The Portrait of a Lady
1996

The Ogre
1996

The Daily Show
1996

Cannes Man
1996

Mulholland Falls
1996

Mary Reilly
1996

Beyond the Clouds
1995

The Convent
1995

Heart of Darkness
1993

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993

In the Line of Fire
1993

Alive
1993

Jennifer Eight
1992

Of Mice and Men
1992

Shadows and Fog
1991

Performance
1991

The Object of Beauty
1991

Queens Logic
1991

The Sheltering Sky
1990

The Accidental Tourist
1988

Dangerous Liaisons
1988

Miles from Home
1988

The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
1987

Empire of the Sun
1987

The Glass Menagerie
1987

Making Mr. Right
1987

American Masters
1986

Eleni
1985

Death of a Salesman
1985

The Killing Fields
1984

Places in the Heart
1984

Late Night with David Letterman
1982

American Playhouse
1982

Wetten, dass..?
1981

A Wedding
1978

Saturday Night Live
1975
