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 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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Full Filmography
All Credits (176)
100 Years
as Hero (Male)
Lost and Found in Paris
as Wim Waldemar
A Winter's Journey
as Leiermann
Wild Horse Nine
as Chris
In the Hand of Dante
as Joe Black
Being Related to John Malkovich
as Self
Sacrifice
as Gunnar
The Yellow Tie
as Sergiu Celibidache
The Life of Mirrors
as Unknown
Lubach
as Unknown
Opus
as Alfred Moretti
Safe Sets: Dying to Work in the Film Industry
as self
The Line
as Beach Miller
Bad Monkey
as Spencer
Unsinkable
as Chief Engineer Pollard
RIPLEY
as Reeves Minot
The New Look
as Lucien Lelong
Mr. Blake at Your Service!
as Andrew Blake
Fool's Paradise
as Ed Cote
One Ranger
as Geddes
Breaking Rachmaninoff
as Unknown
Seneca
as Seneca
A Journey to Sundance
as Self
Mindcage
as The Artist
Savage Salvation
as Peter
White Elephant
as Glen Follett
Chariot
as Dr. Karn
Shattered
as Ronald
The Survivalist
as Aaron Ramsey
Ten Year Old Tom
as Mr. B (voice)
Rogue Hostage
as Sam Nelson
Last Call
as Dr. Felton
Valley of the Gods
as Wes Tauros
Ava
as Duke
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
as The Impressive Clergyman
Space Force
as Dr. Adrian Mallory
Arkansas
as Bright
The New Pope
as Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox
Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
as Judge Edward D. Cowart
Velvet Buzzsaw
as Piers
The ABC Murders
as Hercule Poirot
Bird Box
as Douglas
The Music Critic
as The Narrator
Mile 22
as Bishop
Supercon
as Sid Newberry
Casanova Gene
as Unknown
Bullet Head
as Walker
Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA
as Port (archive footage)
The Wilde Wedding
as Laurence
I Love You, Daddy
as Leslie Goodwin
About Love. Adults Only
as Ed
Just Call Me God
as Satur Diman Cha
Unlocked
as Bob Hunter
Deepwater Horizon
as Donald Vidrine
Psychogenic Fugue
as All characters
Zoolander 2
as Chazz Spencer
Billions
as Grigor Andolov
Penguins of Madagascar
as Dave (voice)
Cut Bank
as Sheriff Vogel
Casanova Variations
as Giacomo
The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover
as Dave / Dr. Octavius Brine (voice)
Jack Unterweger - The Charming Serial Killer
as Unknown
Crossbones
as Blackbeard
Noseland
as Self
Cesar Chavez
as Bogdanovitch
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
RED 2
as Marvin Boggs
Ecstasy
as Vinny
Siberian Education
as Grandfather Kuzya
Warm Bodies
as Colonel Grigio
Lines of Wellington
as General Wellington
Side by Side
as Self
Drunkboat
as Mort
All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set
as Self
The Jonathan Ross Show
as Self
100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story
as Self
RED
as Marvin Boggs
Secretariat
as Lucien Laurin
Jonah Hex
as Turnbull
The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer
as Jack Unterweger
Saturday Night
as Self
SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas
as (archive footage)
La Traversée du désir
as Self
Gardens of the Night
as Michael
Afterwards
as Joseph Kay
Disgrace
as David Lurie
Burn After Reading
as Osborne Cox
Mutant Chronicles
as Constantine
Projectorparishilton
as Unknown
In Tranzit
as Pavlov
The Great Buck Howard
as Buck Howard
Beowulf
as Unferth (Voice)
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
Eragon
as King Galbatorix
On n'est pas couché
as Self - Guest
Art School Confidential
as Professor Sandiford
Klimt
as Gustav Klimt
De Wereld Draait Door
as Self
Colour Me Kubrick
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'
as Self
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
as Humma Kavula
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
as Self
The Libertine
as Charles II
A Talking Picture
as Comandante John Walesa
Johnny English
as Pascal Sauvage
Adaptation.
as John Malkovich (uncredited)
Napoleon
as Charles de Talleyrand
The Dancer Upstairs
as Abimael Guzman (uncredited)
Ripley's Game
as Tom Ripley
Hideous Man
as Narrator
Knockaround Guys
as Teddy Deserve
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
as Self - Guest
Hotel
as Omar Jonnson
Savage Souls
as Monsieur Numance
I’m Going Home
as John Crawford
Les Misérables
as Javert
Shadow of the Vampire
as F. W. Murnau
Ladies Room
as Roberto
RKO 281
as Herman Mankiewicz
Being John Malkovich
as John Horatio Malkovich
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
as Charles VII
Time Regained
as Baron de Charlus
Rounders
as Teddy KGB
The Man in the Iron Mask
as Athos
Con Air
as Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
as Self
The Portrait of a Lady
as Gilbert Osmond
The Ogre
as Abel
The Daily Show
as Self
Cannes Man
as Self
Mulholland Falls
as General Thomas Timms
Mary Reilly
as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde
Beyond the Clouds
as The Director
The Convent
as Michael
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
as Self (uncredited)
Zona+
as Próprio
Heart of Darkness
as Kurtz
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
Late Show with David Letterman
as Self - Guest
In the Line of Fire
as Mitch Leary
Alive
as Carlitos Páez / Narrator (uncredited)
Jennifer Eight
as Agent St. Anne
Of Mice and Men
as Lennie Small
Annie Lennox: Totally Diva
as Unknown
Shadows and Fog
as Clown
Old Times
as Unknown
Performance
as Deeley
The Object of Beauty
as Jake Bartholomew
Queens Logic
as Eliot
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
as Self
The Sheltering Sky
as Port
Decade
as Self
Dangerous Liaisons
as Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont
Miles from Home
as Barry Maxwell
The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
as Self
Empire of the Sun
as Basie
The Glass Menagerie
as Tom Wingfield
Making Mr. Right
as Jeff Peters / Ulysses
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
as Self / Biff
American Masters
as Self
Rocket to the Moon
as Ben Stark
Eleni
as Nicholas 'Nick' Gage
Death of a Salesman
as Biff Loman
The Killing Fields
as Al Rockoff
Places in the Heart
as Mr. Will
True West
as Lee
Say Goodnight, Gracie
as Steve
Late Night with David Letterman
as Self - Guest
American Playhouse
as Lee
American Playhouse
as Ben Stark
American Dream
as Unknown
Wetten, dass..?
as Self
Word of Honor
as Gary
A Wedding
as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host