John Malkovich
Acting
Born: December 9, 1953 (age 72) · Christopher, Illinois, USA
Highest Rated
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).
Known for
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
2012
Bird Box
2018
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2011
Juno
2007
RED
2010
Warm Bodies
2013
Burn After Reading
2008
Deepwater Horizon
2016
Being John Malkovich
1999
Con Air
1997
Changeling
2008
Penguins of Madagascar
2014
Photos (9)
Movies (123)
Penguins of Madagascar
Dave (voice)
Sacrifice
Gunnar
Being John Malkovich
John Horatio Malkovich
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Judge Edward D. Cowart
RED
Marvin Boggs
Con Air
Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom
Johnny English
Pascal Sauvage
Adaptation.
John Malkovich (uncredited)
In the Line of Fire
Mitch Leary
RED 2
Marvin Boggs
Zoolander 2
Chazz Spencer
Warm Bodies
Colonel Grigio
Empire of the Sun
Basie
Burn After Reading
Osborne Cox
Secretariat
Lucien Laurin
Beowulf
Unferth (Voice)
Deepwater Horizon
Donald Vidrine
The Man in the Iron Mask
Athos
In the Hand of Dante
Joe Black
Dangerous Liaisons
Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont
Bird Box
Douglas
Unlocked
Bob Hunter
White Elephant
Glen Follett
Bullet Head
Walker
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Charles VII
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Humma Kavula
Shadow of the Vampire
F. W. Murnau
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Bruce Brazos
Ava
Duke
Mulholland Falls
General Thomas Timms
Mile 22
Bishop
The Killing Fields
Al Rockoff
The Portrait of a Lady
Gilbert Osmond
Opus
Alfred Moretti
Mindcage
The Artist
Places in the Heart
Mr. Will
Of Mice and Men
Lennie Small
Rounders
Teddy KGB
Changeling
Rev. Gustav Briegleb
Eragon
King Galbatorix
Ripley's Game
Tom Ripley
Last Call
Dr. Felton
Savage Salvation
Peter
The Libertine
Charles II
Velvet Buzzsaw
Piers
Shadows and Fog
Clown
Mutant Chronicles
Constantine
Alive
Carlitos Páez / Narrator (uncredited)
Art School Confidential
Professor Sandiford
The Great Buck Howard
Buck Howard
Death of a Salesman
Biff Loman
The Object of Beauty
Jake Bartholomew
Jonah Hex
Turnbull
One Ranger
Geddes
Fool's Paradise
Ed Cote
Cut Bank
Sheriff Vogel
Valley of the Gods
Wes Tauros
Shattered
Ronald
Mary Reilly
Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde
The Wilde Wedding
Laurence
The Sheltering Sky
Port
The Dancer Upstairs
Abimael Guzman (uncredited)
The Line
Beach Miller
The Ogre
Abel
Arkansas
Bright
Time Regained
Baron de Charlus
Jennifer Eight
Agent St. Anne
Afterwards
Joseph Kay
Mr. Blake at Your Service!
Andrew Blake
The Yellow Tie
Sergiu Celibidache
Miles from Home
Barry Maxwell
Knockaround Guys
Teddy Deserve
The Survivalist
Aaron Ramsey
Rogue Hostage
Sam Nelson
Chariot
Dr. Karn
Siberian Education
Grandfather Kuzya
The Glass Menagerie
Tom Wingfield
Disgrace
David Lurie
Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA
Port (archive footage)
Cesar Chavez
Bogdanovitch
In Tranzit
Pavlov
A Talking Picture
Comandante John Walesa
Making Mr. Right
Jeff Peters / Ulysses
I Love You, Daddy
Leslie Goodwin
Beyond the Clouds
The Director
Queens Logic
Eliot
Klimt
Gustav Klimt
A Wedding
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Ladies Room
Roberto
The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover
Dave / Dr. Octavius Brine (voice)
Seneca
Seneca
RKO 281
Herman Mankiewicz
Gardens of the Night
Michael
About Love. Adults Only
Ed
I’m Going Home
John Crawford
Drunkboat
Mort
Heart of Darkness
Kurtz
Supercon
Sid Newberry
Lines of Wellington
General Wellington
Colour Me Kubrick
Alan Conway
Breaking Rachmaninoff
2023
True West
Lee
Eleni
Nicholas 'Nick' Gage
Savage Souls
Monsieur Numance
The Life of Mirrors
2025
The Convent
Michael
SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas
(archive footage)
Word of Honor
Gary
Annie Lennox: Totally Diva
1992
Casanova Variations
Giacomo
Rocket to the Moon
Ben Stark
Psychogenic Fugue
All characters
Jack Unterweger - The Charming Serial Killer
2014
Hotel
Omar Jonnson
American Dream
1981
Casanova Gene
2018
Hideous Man
Narrator
Just Call Me God
Satur Diman Cha
Say Goodnight, Gracie
Steve
The Music Critic
The Narrator
The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer
Jack Unterweger
Old Times
1991
Ecstasy
Vinny
TV Shows (19)
Billions
Grigor Andolov · 7 eps
American Playhouse
Lee · 1 eps
American Playhouse
Ben Stark · 1 eps
Bad Monkey
Spencer · 10 eps
Performance
Deeley · 1 eps
Space Force
Dr. Adrian Mallory · 17 eps
RIPLEY
Reeves Minot · 1 eps
Lubach
1 eps
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
The Impressive Clergyman · 1 eps
Projectorparishilton
1 eps
The ABC Murders
Hercule Poirot · 3 eps
The New Look
Lucien Lelong · 10 eps
The New Pope
Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox · 9 eps
Napoleon
Charles de Talleyrand · 4 eps
Ten Year Old Tom
Mr. B (voice) · 40 eps
Les Misérables
Javert · 4 eps
Crossbones
Blackbeard · 9 eps
Unsinkable
Chief Engineer Pollard · 11 eps
Zona+
Próprio · 1 eps
Self / Appearances (32)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self · 1 eps
The Daily Show
Self · 3 eps
Late Show with David Letterman
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host · 3 eps
The Graham Norton Show
Self · 3 eps
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Self · 1 eps
Late Night with David Letterman
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest · 1 eps
De Wereld Draait Door
Self · 1 eps
Wetten, dass..?
Self · 1 eps
American Masters
Self · 1 eps
The Jonathan Ross Show
Self · 1 eps
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Self - Guest · 1 eps
On n'est pas couché
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona
Self - Narrator (voice) · 8 eps
Cannes Man
Self
Side by Side
Self
Saturday Night
Self
Safe Sets: Dying to Work in the Film Industry
self
Noseland
Self
A Journey to Sundance
Self
The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
Self
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
Self / Biff
La Traversée du désir
Self
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'
Self
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
Self (uncredited)
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
Self
Decade
Self
All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set
Self
100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story
Self
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
Self
Being Related to John Malkovich
Self
Upcoming (6)
Directing (3)
Writing (3)
Producing (15)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Producer
Juno
Producer
Young Adult
Executive Producer
The Accidental Tourist
Executive Producer
Last Call
Producer
Demolition
Producer
The Libertine
Producer
Art School Confidential
Producer
Ghost World
Producer
Shattered
Producer
The Wilde Wedding
Executive Producer
The Dancer Upstairs
Producer
Abel
Executive Producer
Which Way Home
Executive Producer
Kill the Poor
Producer
