John Malkovich

Born: 1953-12-09 in Christopher, Illinois, USA

Known For: Acting

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).

Filmography

2026

In the Hand of Dante as Joe Black
Wild Horse Nine as Chris
Sacrifice as Gunnar
Being Related to John Malkovich as Self

2025

Lubach
Opus as Alfred Moretti
The Yellow Tie as Sergiu Celibidache
The Life of Mirrors

2024

RIPLEY as Reeves Minot
The New Look as Lucien Lelong
Unsinkable as Chief Engineer Pollard
The Line as Beach Miller
Safe Sets: Dying to Work in the Film Industry as self

2023

Seneca as Seneca
Mr. Blake at Your Service! as Andrew Blake
One Ranger as Geddes
Fool's Paradise as Ed Cote
A Journey to Sundance as Self
Breaking Rachmaninoff

2022

Shattered as Ronald
Mindcage as The Artist
White Elephant as Glen Follett
Savage Salvation as Peter
Chariot as Dr. Karn

2021

Ten Year Old Tom as Mr. B (voice)
The Survivalist as Aaron Ramsey
Rogue Hostage as Sam Nelson

2020

Space Force as Dr. Adrian Mallory
Home Movie: The Princess Bride as The Impressive Clergyman
The New Pope as Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox
Ava as Duke
Arkansas as Bright
Last Call as Dr. Felton
Valley of the Gods as Wes Tauros

2019

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile as Judge Edward D. Cowart
Velvet Buzzsaw as Piers
Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona as Self - Narrator (voice)
Gotta Get Down to It ... (Sound Mixer)

2018

Bird Box as Douglas
Mile 22 as Bishop
The ABC Murders as Hercule Poirot
Casanova Gene
Supercon as Sid Newberry
The Music Critic as The Narrator

2017

Unlocked as Bob Hunter
Bullet Head as Walker
The Wilde Wedding as Laurence
About Love. Adults Only as Ed
Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA as Port (archive footage)
I Love You, Daddy as Leslie Goodwin
Just Call Me God as Satur Diman Cha

2016

Billions as Grigor Andolov
Deepwater Horizon as Donald Vidrine
Demolition ... (Producer)
Zoolander 2 as Chazz Spencer
Psychogenic Fugue as All characters

2014

Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
Penguins of Madagascar as Dave (voice)
Crossbones as Blackbeard
Cut Bank as Sheriff Vogel
Cesar Chavez as Bogdanovitch
Strap Hanging ... (Director)
The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover as Dave / Dr. Octavius Brine (voice)
Noseland as Self
Casanova Variations as Giacomo
Jack Unterweger - The Charming Serial Killer
Le paradoxe de John Malkovich as Himself

2013

RED 2 as Marvin Boggs
Warm Bodies as Colonel Grigio
Siberian Education as Grandfather Kuzya
Ecstasy as Vinny

2012

The Perks of Being a Wallflower ... (Producer)
Side by Side as Self
Lines of Wellington as General Wellington
Drunkboat as Mort
All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set as Self

2011

The Jonathan Ross Show as Self
Transformers: Dark of the Moon as Bruce Brazos
Young Adult ... (Executive Producer)
Butterflies as Man
100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story as Self

2010

RED as Marvin Boggs
Jonah Hex as Turnbull
Secretariat as Lucien Laurin
Saturday Night as Self
The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer as Jack Unterweger

2009

SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas as (archive footage)
La Traversée du désir as Self
Which Way Home ... (Executive Producer)

2008

Changeling as Rev. Gustav Briegleb
Projectorparishilton
Burn After Reading as Osborne Cox
In Tranzit as Pavlov
Mutant Chronicles as Constantine
The Great Buck Howard as Buck Howard
Afterwards as Joseph Kay
Disgrace as David Lurie
Gardens of the Night as Michael
Finding the Burn as Self / Osborne Cox (archive footage)
Snow Angel ... (Writer)
Music at the Sea as Self
Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies as Narrator
Welcome Back, George as Self

2007

The Graham Norton Show as Self
Beowulf as Unferth
Juno ... (Producer)
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place

2006

Eragon as King Galbatorix
On n'est pas couché as Self - Guest
Art School Confidential as Professor Sandiford
Klimt as Gustav Klimt

2005

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
De Wereld Draait Door as Self
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as Humma Kavula
Colour Me Kubrick as 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' as Self

2004

The Libertine as Charles II

2003

Johnny English as Pascal Sauvage
Kill the Poor ... (Producer)
A Talking Picture as Comandante John Walesa

2002

Napoleon as Charles de Talleyrand
Gero von Boehm begegnet... as Self
Adaptation. as John Malkovich (uncredited)
Ripley's Game as Tom Ripley
Hideous Man as Narrator
The Dancer Upstairs as Abimael Guzman (uncredited)

2001

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross as Self - Guest
Ghost World ... (Producer)
Knockaround Guys as Teddy Deserve
Hotel as Omar Jonnson
Savage Souls as Monsieur Numance
I’m Going Home as John Crawford

2000

Les Misérables as Javert
Shadow of the Vampire as F. W. Murnau
Lady Behave ... (Director)

1999

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc as Charles VII
Being John Malkovich as John Horatio Malkovich
RKO 281 as Herman Mankiewicz
Ladies Room as Roberto
Time Regained as Baron de Charlus

1998

The Man in the Iron Mask as Athos
Rounders as Teddy KGB

1997

Con Air as Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady as Self

1996

The Daily Show as Self
Mulholland Falls as General Thomas Timms
Mary Reilly as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde
The Portrait of a Lady as Gilbert Osmond
The Ogre as Abel
Cannes Man as Self

1995

Beyond the Clouds as The Director
The Convent as Michael
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive as Self (uncredited)

1994

Zona+ as Próprio

1993

Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
In the Line of Fire as Mitch Leary
Alive as Carlitos Páez / Narrator (uncredited)
Heart of Darkness as Kurtz

1989

Decade as Self

1988

Dangerous Liaisons as Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont
The Accidental Tourist ... (Executive Producer)
Miles from Home as Barry Maxwell

1987

Empire of the Sun as Basie
The Glass Menagerie as Tom Wingfield
The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun as Self
Making Mr. Right as Jeff Peters / Ulysses
Santabear's High Flying Adventure as Santa Claus (voice)

1986

American Masters as Self
Rocket to the Moon as Ben Stark
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’ as Self / Biff

1985

Death of a Salesman as Biff Loman
Eleni as Nicholas 'Nick' Gage

1984

Places in the Heart as Mr. Will
The Killing Fields as Al Rockoff
True West as Lee

1983

Say Goodnight, Gracie as Steve

1982

Late Night with David Letterman as Self - Guest
American Playhouse as Lee

1981

1978

A Wedding as Wedding Guest (uncredited)

1975

Saturday Night Live as Self - Host