John Malkovich
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).
Movies (142)
Wild Horse Nine
2026
Sacrifice
2026
Being Related to John Malkovich
2026
The Yellow Tie
2025
In the Hand of Dante
2025
The Life of Mirrors
2025
Opus
2025
Safe Sets: Dying to Work in the Film Industry
2024
The Line
2024
Mr. Blake at Your Service!
2023
Fool's Paradise
2023
One Ranger
2023
Breaking Rachmaninoff
2023
Seneca
2023
A Journey to Sundance
2023
Mindcage
2022
Savage Salvation
2022
White Elephant
2022
Chariot
2022
Shattered
2022
The Survivalist
2021
Rogue Hostage
2021
Last Call
2020
Valley of the Gods
2020
Ava
2020
Arkansas
2020
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
2019
Velvet Buzzsaw
2019
Bird Box
2018
The Music Critic
2018
Mile 22
2018
Supercon
2018
Casanova Gene
2018
Bullet Head
2017
Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA
2017
The Wilde Wedding
2017
I Love You, Daddy
2017
About Love. Adults Only
2017
Just Call Me God
2017
Unlocked
2017
Deepwater Horizon
2016
Psychogenic Fugue
2016
Zoolander 2
2016
Penguins of Madagascar
2014
Cut Bank
2014
Casanova Variations
2014
The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover
2014
Jack Unterweger - The Charming Serial Killer
2014
Noseland
2014
Cesar Chavez
2014
RED 2
2013
Ecstasy
2013
Siberian Education
2013
Warm Bodies
2013
Lines of Wellington
2012
Side by Side
2012
Drunkboat
2012
All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set
2012
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2011
100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story
2011
RED
2010
Secretariat
2010
Jonah Hex
2010
The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer
2010
Saturday Night
2010
SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas
2009
La Traversée du désir
2009
Gardens of the Night
2008
Changeling
2008
Afterwards
2008
Disgrace
2008
Burn After Reading
2008
Mutant Chronicles
2008
In Tranzit
2008
The Great Buck Howard
2008
Beowulf
2007
Eragon
2006
Art School Confidential
2006
Klimt
2006
Colour Me Kubrick
2005
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'
2005
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005
The Libertine
2004
A Talking Picture
2003
Johnny English
2003
Adaptation.
2002
The Dancer Upstairs
2002
Ripley's Game
2002
Knockaround Guys
2001
Hotel
2001
Savage Souls
2001
I’m Going Home
2001
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
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
1997
The Portrait of a Lady
1996
The Ogre
1996
Cannes Man
1996
Mulholland Falls
1996
Mary Reilly
1996
Beyond the Clouds
1995
The Convent
1995
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
1995
Heart of Darkness
1993
In the Line of Fire
1993
Alive
1993
Jennifer Eight
1992
Of Mice and Men
1992
Annie Lennox: Totally Diva
1992
Shadows and Fog
1991
Old Times
1991
The Object of Beauty
1991
Queens Logic
1991
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
1990
The Sheltering Sky
1990
Decade
1989
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
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
1986
Rocket to the Moon
1986
Eleni
1985
Death of a Salesman
1985
The Killing Fields
1984
Places in the Heart
1984
True West
1984
Say Goodnight, Gracie
1983
American Dream
1981
Word of Honor
1981
A Wedding
1978
Lost and Found in Paris
A Winter's Journey
TV Shows (32)
Lubach
2025
Unsinkable
2024
RIPLEY
2024
The New Look
2024
Ten Year Old Tom
2021
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
2020
Space Force
2020
The New Pope
2020
Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona
2019
The ABC Murders
2018
Billions
2016
Crossbones
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Jonathan Ross Show
2011
Projectorparishilton
2008
The Graham Norton Show
2007
On n'est pas couché
2006
De Wereld Draait Door
2005
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
Napoleon
2002
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
Les Misérables
2000
The Daily Show
1996
Zona+
1994
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Performance
1991
American Masters
1986
Late Night with David Letterman
1982
American Playhouse
1982
American Playhouse
1982
Wetten, dass..?
1981
Saturday Night Live
1975