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