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

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

2025

Lubach
The Yellow Tie as Sergiu Celibidache
Opus as Alfred Moretti
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

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

2022

White Elephant as Glen Follett
Shattered as Ronald
Mindcage as The Artist
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
Ava as Duke
The New Pope as Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox
Arkansas as Bright
Valley of the Gods as Wes Tauros
Last Call as Dr. Felton

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
The Wilde Wedding as Laurence
Bullet Head as Walker
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
WIRED's Autocomplete Interviews as Self - Guest
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
Noseland as Self
The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover as Dave / Dr. Octavius Brine (voice)
Jack Unterweger - The Charming Serial Killer
Strap Hanging ... (Director)
Casanova Variations as Giacomo
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
All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set as Self
Drunkboat as Mort

2011

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

2010

RED as Marvin Boggs
Jonah Hex as Turnbull
Secretariat as Lucien Laurin
Saturday Night as Self
Abel ... (Executive Producer)
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

Burn After Reading as Osborne Cox
Changeling as Rev. Gustav Briegleb
Mutant Chronicles as Constantine
In Tranzit as Pavlov
Projectorparishilton
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)
Music at the Sea as Self
Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies as Narrator
Welcome Back, George as Self
Snow Angel ... (Writer)

2007

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

2006

On n'est pas couché as Self - Guest
Eragon as King Galbatorix
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
A Talking Picture as Comandante John Walesa
Kill the Poor ... (Producer)

2002

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

2001

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

2000

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

1999

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

1998

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

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
The Portrait of a Lady as Gilbert Osmond
Mary Reilly as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde
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

Heart of Darkness as Kurtz
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)

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

1986

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

1985

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

1984

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

1983

Say Goodnight, Gracie as Steve

1982

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

1981

1978

A Wedding as Wedding Guest (uncredited)

1975

Saturday Night Live as Self - Host