John Malkovich
Known for Acting · 186 credits
- Born
- 1953-12-09 (age 72)
- Place of birth
- Christopher, Illinois, USA
- Also known as
- John Gavin 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).
Known For
TV Shows (34)
The Daily Show
1996
as Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self
The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
as Self
Billions
2016
as Grigor Andolov
Late Night with David Letterman
1982
as Self - Guest
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest
American Masters
1986
as Self
Wetten, dass..?
1981
as Self
De Wereld Draait Door
2005
as Self
The Jonathan Ross Show
2011
as Self
Space Force
2020
as Dr. Adrian Mallory
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
as Self - Guest
Performance
1991
as Deeley
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
2020
as The Impressive Clergyman
Romy Award
1990
as Presenter
The New Look
2024
as Lucien Lelong
The New Pope
2020
as Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox
RIPLEY
2024
as Reeves Minot
Projectorparishilton
2008
American Playhouse
1982
as Lee / Ben Stark
Lubach
2025
On n'est pas couché
2006
as Self - Guest
The ABC Murders
2018
as Hercule Poirot
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
2002
as Self
Napoleon
2002
as Charles de Talleyrand
Ten Year Old Tom
2021
as Mr. B (voice)
Crossbones
2014
as Blackbeard
Les Misérables
2000
as Javert
Unsinkable
2024
as Chief Engineer Pollard
Zona+
1994
as Próprio
Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona
2019
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Bishop
as Lincoln Graves
Movies (152)
Penguins of Madagascar
2014
as Dave (voice)
Dangerous Liaisons
1988
as Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont
Con Air
1997
as Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom
Bird Box
2018
as Douglas
RED
2010
as Marvin Boggs
Changeling
2008
as Rev. Gustav Briegleb
Rounders
1998
as Teddy KGB
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005
as Humma Kavula
RED 2
2013
as Marvin Boggs
Johnny English
2003
as Pascal Sauvage
In the Hand of Dante
2026
as Joe Black
Beowulf
2007
as Unferth
Warm Bodies
2013
as Colonel Grigio
Being John Malkovich
1999
as John Horatio Malkovich
Burn After Reading
2008
as Osborne Cox
The Man in the Iron Mask
1998
as Athos
Deepwater Horizon
2016
as Donald Vidrine
Alive
1993
as Carlitos Páez / Narrator (uncredited)
Empire of the Sun
1987
as Basie
Eragon
2006
as King Galbatorix
Mile 22
2018
as Bishop
Ava
2020
as Duke
Shattered
2022
as Ronald
Jonah Hex
2010
as Turnbull
Adaptation.
2002
as John Malkovich (uncredited)
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
1999
as Charles VII
Secretariat
2010
as Lucien Laurin
Zoolander 2
2016
as Chazz Spencer
Unlocked
2017
as Bob Hunter
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
2019
as Judge Edward D. Cowart
The Libertine
2004
as Charles II
Opus
2025
as Alfred Moretti
In the Line of Fire
1993
as Mitch Leary
Places in the Heart
1984
as Mr. Will
Mindcage
2022
as The Artist
Mulholland Falls
1996
as General Thomas Timms
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2011
as Bruce Brazos
Velvet Buzzsaw
2019
as Piers
In Tranzit
2008
as Pavlov
Sacrifice
2026
as Gunnar
A Wedding
1978
as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
The Killing Fields
1984
as Al Rockoff
Knockaround Guys
2001
as Teddy Deserve
Art School Confidential
2006
as Professor Sandiford
Of Mice and Men
1992
as Lennie Small
Savage Salvation
2022
as Peter
The Portrait of a Lady
1996
as Gilbert Osmond
Wild Horse Nine
2026
as Chris
Death of a Salesman
1985
as Biff Loman
White Elephant
2022
as Glen Follett
Shadow of the Vampire
2000
as F. W. Murnau
Side by Side
2012
as Self
The Great Buck Howard
2008
as Buck Howard
Jennifer Eight
1992
as Agent St. Anne
Mary Reilly
1996
as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde
Bullet Head
2017
as Walker
Cannes Man
1996
as Self
Cut Bank
2014
as Sheriff Vogel
Fool's Paradise
2023
as Ed Cote
Rogue Hostage
2021
as Sam Nelson
Shadows and Fog
1991
as Clown
The Sheltering Sky
1990
as Port
The Line
2024
as Beach Miller
Mutant Chronicles
2008
as Constantine
Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA
2017
as Port (archive footage)
One Ranger
2023
as Geddes
About Love. Adults Only
2017
as Ed
Arkansas
2020
as Bright
The Survivalist
2021
as Aaron Ramsey
Mr. Blake at Your Service!
2023
as Andrew Blake
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
Miles from Home
1988
as Barry Maxwell
The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover
2014
as Dave / Dr. Octavius Brine (voice)
The Wilde Wedding
2017
as Laurence
The Yellow Tie
2025
as Sergiu Celibidache
Hotel
2001
as Omar Jonnson
Ripley's Game
2002
as Tom Ripley
Beyond the Clouds
1995
as The Director
Cesar Chavez
2014
as Bogdanovitch
Siberian Education
2013
as Grandfather Kuzya
American Dream
1981
The Convent
1995
as Michael
Klimt
2006
as Gustav Klimt
The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
1987
as Self
Queens Logic
1991
as Eliot
Afterwards
2008
as Joseph Kay
Disgrace
2008
as David Lurie
Seneca
2023
as Seneca
The Object of Beauty
1991
as Jake Bartholomew
Gardens of the Night
2008
as Michael
Time Regained
1999
as Baron de Charlus
RKO 281
1999
as Herman Mankiewicz
Drunkboat
2012
as Mort
SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas
2009
as (archive footage)
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
1997
as Self
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
1990
as Self
A Journey to Sundance
2023
as Self
The Ogre
1996
as Abel
The Glass Menagerie
1987
as Tom Wingfield
Chariot
2022
as Dr. Karn
Supercon
2018
as Sid Newberry
I Love You, Daddy
2017
as Leslie Goodwin
The Dancer Upstairs
2002
as Abimael Guzman (uncredited)
Colour Me Kubrick
2005
as Alan Conway
Heart of Darkness
1993
as Kurtz
La Traversée du désir
2009
as Self
Lines of Wellington
2012
as General Wellington
Making Mr. Right
1987
as Jeff Peters / Ulysses
Saturday Night
2010
as Self
Valley of the Gods
2020
as Wes Tauros
Safe Sets: Dying to Work in the Film Industry
2024
as self
Hideous Man
2002
as Narrator
A Talking Picture
2003
as Comandante John Walesa
True West
1984
as Lee
All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set
2012
as Self
Eleni
1985
as Nicholas 'Nick' Gage
A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf
as Unferth
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
1986
as Self / Biff
Casanova Gene
2018
Finding the Burn
2008
as Self / Osborne Cox (archive footage)
About John Malkovich
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 S… With 186 credits spanning from 1975 to 2026, John Malkovich has appeared in 152 films and 34 TV shows.
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- Penguins of Madagascar (2014) — as Dave (voice)
- Dangerous Liaisons (1988) — as Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont
- Con Air (1997) — as Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom
- Bird Box (2018) — as Douglas
- RED (2010) — as Marvin Boggs
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