John Malkovich
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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).
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Known For
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Daily Show
The Graham Norton Show
Billions
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Saturday Night Live
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
RIPLEY
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Performance
The Jonathan Ross Show
Alive
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'
Fool's Paradise
Zoolander 2
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Velvet Buzzsaw
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona
The Fantastic 4: First Steps
Jennifer Eight
Ten Year Old Tom
Rounders
Eragon
Shattered
Penguins of Madagascar
Arkansas
The Man in the Iron Mask
The New Look
Warm Bodies
Beowulf
Johnny English
Unlocked
Burn After Reading
Bird Box
In Tranzit
Death of a Salesman
Places in the Heart
One Ranger
Deepwater Horizon
Napoleon
Con Air
White Elephant
Savage Salvation
Rogue Hostage
RED
Secretariat
Dangerous Liaisons
Changeling
RED 2
The New Pope
In the Line of Fire
Ava
Jonah Hex
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Space Force
The ABC Murders
The Object of Beauty
Of Mice and Men
Shadow of the Vampire
The Call
Old Times
Crossbones
Production Credits
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