John Malkovich
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Dec 9, 1953 (age 72)
- Place of birth
- Christopher, Illinois, USA
- Credits
- 189
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).
Known for
Filmography
100 Years
2099Movie
Hero (Male)
Wild Horse Nine
2026Movie
Chris
In the Hand of Dante
2026Movie
Joe Black
Being Related to John Malkovich
2026Movie
Self
Sacrifice
2026Movie
Gunnar
The Yellow Tie
2025Movie
Sergiu Celibidache
The Life of Mirrors
2025Movie
Lubach
2025TV
Opus
2025Movie
Alfred Moretti
Safe Sets: Dying to Work in the Film Industry
2024Movie
self
The Line
2024Movie
Beach Miller
Bad Monkey
2024TV
Spencer
Unsinkable
2024TV
Chief Engineer Pollard
RIPLEY
2024TV
Reeves Minot
The New Look
2024TV
Lucien Lelong
Mr. Blake at Your Service!
2023Movie
Andrew Blake
Fool's Paradise
2023Movie
Ed Cote
One Ranger
2023Movie
Geddes
Breaking Rachmaninoff
2023Movie
Seneca
2023Movie
Seneca
A Journey to Sundance
2023Movie
Self
Mindcage
2022Movie
The Artist
Savage Salvation
2022Movie
Peter
White Elephant
2022Movie
Glen Follett
Chariot
2022Movie
Dr. Karn
Shattered
2022Movie
Ronald
The Survivalist
2021Movie
Aaron Ramsey
Ten Year Old Tom
2021TV
Mr. B (voice)
Rogue Hostage
2021Movie
Sam Nelson
Last Call
2020Movie
Dr. Felton
Valley of the Gods
2020Movie
Wes Tauros
Ava
2020Movie
Duke
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
2020TV
The Impressive Clergyman
Space Force
2020TV
Dr. Adrian Mallory
Arkansas
2020Movie
Bright
The New Pope
2020TV
Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox
Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona
2019TV
Self - Narrator (voice)
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
2019Movie
Judge Edward D. Cowart
Velvet Buzzsaw
2019Movie
Piers
The ABC Murders
2018TV
Hercule Poirot
Bird Box
2018Movie
Douglas
The Music Critic
2018Movie
The Narrator
Mile 22
2018Movie
Bishop
Supercon
2018Movie
Sid Newberry
Casanova Gene
2018Movie
Bullet Head
2017Movie
Walker
Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA
2017Movie
Port (archive footage)
The Wilde Wedding
2017Movie
Laurence
I Love You, Daddy
2017Movie
Leslie Goodwin
About Love. Adults Only
2017Movie
Ed
Just Call Me God
2017Movie
Satur Diman Cha
Unlocked
2017Movie
Bob Hunter
Deepwater Horizon
2016Movie
Donald Vidrine
Psychogenic Fugue
2016Movie
All characters
Zoolander 2
2016Movie
Chazz Spencer
Billions
2016TV
Grigor Andolov
Penguins of Madagascar
2014Movie
Dave (voice)
Cut Bank
2014Movie
Sheriff Vogel
Casanova Variations
2014Movie
Giacomo
The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover
2014Movie
Dave / Dr. Octavius Brine (voice)
Jack Unterweger - The Charming Serial Killer
2014Movie
Crossbones
2014TV
Blackbeard
Noseland
2014Movie
Self
Cesar Chavez
2014Movie
Bogdanovitch
Le paradoxe de John Malkovich
2014Movie
Himself
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014TV
Self
RED 2
2013Movie
Marvin Boggs
Ecstasy
2013Movie
Vinny
Siberian Education
2013Movie
Grandfather Kuzya
Warm Bodies
2013Movie
Colonel Grigio
Lines of Wellington
2012Movie
General Wellington
Side by Side
2012Movie
Self
Drunkboat
2012Movie
Mort
All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set
2012Movie
Self
The Jonathan Ross Show
2011TV
Self
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2011Movie
Bruce Brazos
Butterflies
2011Movie
Man
100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story
2011Movie
Self
RED
2010Movie
Marvin Boggs
Secretariat
2010Movie
Lucien Laurin
Jonah Hex
2010Movie
Turnbull
The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer
2010Movie
Jack Unterweger
Saturday Night
2010Movie
Self
SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas
2009Movie
(archive footage)
La Traversée du désir
2009Movie
Self
Finding the Burn
2008Movie
Self / Osborne Cox (archive footage)
Welcome Back, George
2008Movie
Self
Gardens of the Night
2008Movie
Michael
Changeling
2008Movie
Rev. Gustav Briegleb
Afterwards
2008Movie
Joseph Kay
Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies
2008Movie
Narrator
Music at the Sea
2008Movie
Self
Disgrace
2008Movie
David Lurie
Burn After Reading
2008Movie
Osborne Cox
Mutant Chronicles
2008Movie
Constantine
Projectorparishilton
2008TV
In Tranzit
2008Movie
Pavlov
The Great Buck Howard
2008Movie
Buck Howard
Beowulf
2007Movie
Unferth (Voice)
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
2007Movie
The Graham Norton Show
2007TV
Self
Eragon
2006Movie
King Galbatorix
On n'est pas couché
2006TV
Self - Guest
Art School Confidential
2006Movie
Professor Sandiford
Klimt
2006Movie
Gustav Klimt
De Wereld Draait Door
2005TV
Self
Colour Me Kubrick
2005Movie
Alan Conway
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'
2005Movie
Self
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005Movie
Humma Kavula
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005TV
Self
The Libertine
2004Movie
Charles II
A Talking Picture
2003Movie
Comandante John Walesa
Johnny English
2003Movie
Pascal Sauvage
Adaptation.
2002Movie
John Malkovich (uncredited)
Napoleon
2002TV
Charles de Talleyrand
The Dancer Upstairs
2002Movie
Abimael Guzman (uncredited)
Ripley's Game
2002Movie
Tom Ripley
Hideous Man
2002Movie
Narrator
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
2002TV
Self
Knockaround Guys
2001Movie
Teddy Deserve
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001TV
Self - Guest
Hotel
2001Movie
Omar Jonnson
Savage Souls
2001Movie
Monsieur Numance
I’m Going Home
2001Movie
John Crawford
Les Misérables
2000TV
Javert
Shadow of the Vampire
2000Movie
F. W. Murnau
Ladies Room
1999Movie
Roberto
RKO 281
1999Movie
Herman Mankiewicz
Being John Malkovich
1999Movie
John Horatio Malkovich
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
1999Movie
Charles VII
Time Regained
1999Movie
Baron de Charlus
Rounders
1998Movie
Teddy KGB
The Man in the Iron Mask
1998Movie
Athos
Con Air
1997Movie
Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
1997Movie
Self
The Portrait of a Lady
1996Movie
Gilbert Osmond
The Ogre
1996Movie
Abel
The Daily Show
1996TV
Self
Cannes Man
1996Movie
Self
Mulholland Falls
1996Movie
General Thomas Timms
Mary Reilly
1996Movie
Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde
Beyond the Clouds
1995Movie
The Director
The Convent
1995Movie
Michael
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
1995Movie
Self (uncredited)
Zona+
1994TV
Próprio
Heart of Darkness
1994Movie
Kurtz
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993TV
Self - Guest
Late Show with David Letterman
1993TV
Self - Guest
In the Line of Fire
1993Movie
Mitch Leary
Alive
1993Movie
Carlitos Páez / Narrator (uncredited)
Jennifer Eight
1992Movie
Agent St. Anne
Of Mice and Men
1992Movie
Lennie Small
Annie Lennox: Totally Diva
1992Movie
Shadows and Fog
1991Movie
Clown
Old Times
1991Movie
Performance
1991TV
Deeley
The Object of Beauty
1991Movie
Jake Bartholomew
Queens Logic
1991Movie
Eliot
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
1990Movie
Self
The Sheltering Sky
1990Movie
Port
Romy Award
1990TV
Presenter
Decade
1989Movie
Self
Dangerous Liaisons
1988Movie
Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont
Miles from Home
1988Movie
Barry Maxwell
The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
1987Movie
Self
Empire of the Sun
1987Movie
Basie
Santabear's High Flying Adventure
1987Movie
Santa Claus (voice)
The Glass Menagerie
1987Movie
Tom Wingfield
Making Mr. Right
1987Movie
Jeff Peters / Ulysses
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
1986Movie
Self / Biff
American Masters
1986TV
Self
Rocket to the Moon
1986Movie
Ben Stark
Eleni
1985Movie
Nicholas 'Nick' Gage
Death of a Salesman
1985Movie
Biff Loman
The Killing Fields
1984Movie
Al Rockoff
Places in the Heart
1984Movie
Mr. Will
True West
1984Movie
Lee
Say Goodnight, Gracie
1983Movie
Steve
Late Night with David Letterman
1982TV
Self - Guest
American Playhouse
1982TV
Lee, Ben Stark
American Dream
1981Movie
Wetten, dass..?
1981TV
Self
Word of Honor
1981Movie
Gary
A Wedding
1978Movie
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Saturday Night Live
1975TV
Self - Host
Bishop
TV
Lincoln Graves
A Winter's Journey
Movie
Leiermann
A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf
Movie
Unferth
Lost and Found in Paris
Movie
Wim Waldemar