John Malkovich
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1953-12-09
Place of Birth
Christopher, Illinois, USA
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).
Also Known For
Dangerous Liaisons
Dec 21, 1988
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
Nov 04, 2017
Being John Malkovich
Oct 29, 1999
The Killing Fields
Nov 23, 1984
Rounders
Sep 11, 1998
Con Air
Jun 05, 1997
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Oct 27, 1999
Afterwards
Oct 01, 2008
Beowulf
Nov 05, 2007
Eragon
Dec 14, 2006
Empire of the Sun
Dec 09, 1987
Changeling
Oct 24, 2008
Jennifer Eight
Nov 06, 1992
Ripley's Game
Sep 02, 2002
Heart of Darkness
Oct 01, 1993
Shadow of the Vampire
Aug 30, 2000
Mulholland Falls
Apr 26, 1996
Burn After Reading
Sep 05, 2008
Seneca
Feb 20, 2023
Jonah Hex
Jun 18, 2010
The Sheltering Sky
Oct 25, 1990
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Apr 28, 2005
Knockaround Guys
Nov 30, 2001
The Libertine
Sep 16, 2004
In Tranzit
Mar 04, 2008
Making Mr. Right
Apr 03, 1987
Johnny English
Mar 14, 2003
Mary Reilly
Feb 23, 1996
Beyond the Clouds
Oct 27, 1995
Disgrace
Sep 06, 2008
One Ranger
May 05, 2023
The Call
Mar 01, 2006
Death of a Salesman
Aug 16, 1985
The Man in the Iron Mask
Mar 12, 1998
Art School Confidential
May 05, 2006
Of Mice and Men
Sep 16, 1992
Mutant Chronicles
Aug 07, 2008
In the Line of Fire
Jul 08, 1993
Colour Me Kubrick
Oct 06, 2005
Places in the Heart
Sep 11, 1984
Lost and Found in Paris
Klimt
Mar 03, 2006
The Portrait of a Lady
Oct 17, 1996
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Jun 28, 2011
The Great Buck Howard
Jan 18, 2008
Gardens of the Night
Nov 21, 2008
Music at the Sea
Sep 28, 2008
RED
Oct 13, 2010
Time Regained
May 19, 1999
Savage Souls
May 20, 2001
The Ogre
Sep 12, 1996
Secretariat
Aug 20, 2010
Rocket to the Moon
May 05, 1986
Queens Logic
Feb 01, 1991
RKO 281
Apr 07, 2000
Miles from Home
Sep 16, 1988
Shadows and Fog
Dec 05, 1991
The Glass Menagerie
May 27, 1987
Warm Bodies
Jan 31, 2013
Drunkboat
Jul 13, 2012
The Object of Beauty
Apr 12, 1991
Mr. Blake at Your Service!
Nov 01, 2023
Lines of Wellington
Oct 04, 2012
The Convent
Sep 06, 1995
RED 2
Jul 18, 2013
Thelma
Old Times
Oct 26, 1991
Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies
Oct 01, 2008
Siberian Education
Feb 27, 2013
Ladies Room
Nov 30, 1999
Ecstasy
Jun 30, 2013
Cesar Chavez
Mar 28, 2014
True West
Feb 01, 1984
White Elephant
Jun 03, 2022
Hotel
Sep 12, 2001
In the Hand of Dante
Sep 03, 2025
Penguins of Madagascar
Nov 22, 2014
Cut Bank
Oct 04, 2014
The Line
Oct 18, 2024
Opus
Mar 13, 2025
Noseland
May 08, 2014
Casanova Variations
Aug 21, 2014
Eleni
Nov 01, 1985
Saturday Night
May 02, 2010
Santabear's High Flying Adventure
Dec 01, 1987
SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas
Dec 17, 2009
Cannes Man
Jun 03, 1996
Mindcage
Dec 16, 2022
The Yellow Tie
Nov 14, 2025
Word of Honor
Jan 06, 1981
Hideous Man
Aug 01, 2002
American Dream
Apr 26, 1981
A Talking Picture
Aug 31, 2003
Zoolander 2
Feb 06, 2016
Le paradoxe de John Malkovich
Mar 02, 2014
I’m Going Home
May 13, 2001
Deepwater Horizon
Sep 28, 2016
Adaptation.
Dec 06, 2002
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
Sep 02, 1995
Unlocked
Apr 27, 2017
Psychogenic Fugue
Sep 27, 2016
Supercon
Apr 27, 2018
Valley of the Gods
Sep 17, 2020
Last Call
Nov 25, 2020
About Love. Adults Only
Sep 01, 2017
Alive
Jan 15, 1993
All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set
May 15, 2012
The Wilde Wedding
Sep 15, 2017
I Love You, Daddy
Sep 09, 2017
Bird Box
Dec 13, 2018
Bullet Head
Dec 07, 2017
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
Jan 01, 1997
La Traversée du désir
Mar 16, 2009
Mile 22
Aug 16, 2018
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
May 02, 2019
Casanova Gene
Feb 17, 2018
Velvet Buzzsaw
Feb 01, 2019
Jack Unterweger - The Charming Serial Killer
Jun 23, 2014
The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer
Jun 08, 2010
Ava
Jul 02, 2020
Fool's Paradise
May 12, 2023
Arkansas
May 05, 2020
The Dancer Upstairs
Sep 20, 2002
100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story
Mar 13, 2011
Side by Side
Aug 19, 2012
The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
Dec 30, 1987
A Winter's Journey
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
Dec 01, 1990
Decade
Dec 09, 1989
Savage Salvation
Dec 02, 2022
A Wedding
Aug 29, 1978
The Survivalist
Dec 02, 2021
The Music Critic
Dec 10, 2018
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
Jun 23, 1986
Chariot
Apr 15, 2022
Rogue Hostage
Jun 11, 2021
Just Call Me God
Apr 30, 2017
The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation Search and Rescue
Jul 22, 2014
Shattered
Jan 14, 2022
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'
Sep 05, 2005
Safe Sets - Dying to Work in the Film Industry
Oct 19, 2024
Sacrifice
Sep 06, 2025
A Journey to Sundance
Jan 01, 2021
A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf
Wild Horse Nine
Breaking Rachmaninoff
Apr 01, 2023
Annie Lennox: Totally Diva
Apr 06, 1992
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
Apr 01, 2007
The Life of Mirrors
Jul 13, 2025
100 Years
Dream Walkers
Finding the Burn
Dec 21, 2008
Welcome Back, George
Dec 21, 2008
Say Goodnight, Gracie
Feb 15, 1983
8 Husbands
The Daily Show
Jul 22, 1996
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Nov 02, 2001
Napoleon
Oct 07, 2002
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Sep 13, 1993
The Jonathan Ross Show
Sep 03, 2011
De Wereld Draait Door
Oct 10, 2005
Les Misérables
Sep 04, 2000
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Jan 03, 2005
Crossbones
May 30, 2014
American Masters
Jun 23, 1986
Saturday Night Live
Oct 11, 1975
Zona+
Sep 19, 1994
Ten Year Old Tom
Sep 30, 2021
Wetten, dass..?
Feb 14, 1981
Projectorparishilton
May 17, 2008
The Graham Norton Show
Feb 22, 2007
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
Jun 29, 2020
The New Look
Feb 13, 2024
The ABC Murders
Dec 26, 2018
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Feb 25, 2014
Romy Award
Jan 01, 1990
The New Pope
Jan 10, 2020
RIPLEY
Apr 04, 2024
Space Force
May 29, 2020
Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona
Nov 29, 2019
American Playhouse
Jan 12, 1982
Performance
Oct 05, 1991
American Playhouse
Jan 12, 1982
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
Apr 09, 2002
Unsinkable
Jul 10, 2024
Billions
Jan 17, 2016
Lubach
Mar 24, 2025
