John Malkovich
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Biography
John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an American actor. He is the recipient of several accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, in addition to 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 Award 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 in Crossbones (2014), Billions (2018–19), The New Pope (2020), and Space Force (2020–2022).
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Known For
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Daily Show
The Graham Norton Show
Saturday Night Live
RIPLEY
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The Jonathan Ross Show
Alive
Fool's Paradise
Zoolander 2
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Velvet Buzzsaw
Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
Jennifer Eight
Ten Year Old Tom
Rounders
Penguins of Madagascar
Shattered
Eragon
Beowulf
Unlocked
The Man in the Iron Mask
Johnny English
Warm Bodies
Arkansas
The New Look
Con Air
Savage Salvation
Napoleon
White Elephant
One Ranger
Deepwater Horizon
In Tranzit
Places in the Heart
Bird Box
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Secretariat
The New Pope
Rogue Hostage
Dangerous Liaisons
Jonah Hex
RED 2
RED
In the Line of Fire
Space Force
Ava
Shadow of the Vampire
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Crossbones
The Call
Of Mice and Men
The ABC Murders
Production Credits
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