
John Cusack
Biography
John Paul Cusack (born June 28, 1966) is an American actor. Cusack began acting in films during the 1980s, starring in coming-of-age dramedies such as Sixteen Candles (1984), Better Off Dead (1985), The Sure Thing (1985), Stand by Me (1986), and Say Anything... (1989). In the 1990s, he then started appearing in independent films and had leading men roles in Bullets Over Broadway (1994), Con Air (1997), Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), The Thin Red Line (1998), Being John Malkovich (1999), High Fidelity (2000), America's Sweethearts (2001), Max (2002), and Runaway Jury (2003).
Cusack has been nominated for several awards, including a Golden Globe for his role starring in High Fidelity. He won the 2014 Canadian Screen Awards for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in Maps to the Stars. He is a son of filmmaker Dick Cusack and the younger brother of actors Bill, Joan and Ann Cusack.
In 2012, Cusack was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Acting History
2025
Meister der Apokalypse - Roland Emmerich as Self
2025Fog of War as Bob Duncolm
2025Detective Chinatown 1900 as Grant
2024Decoded as 希伊斯
2024BRATS as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2022Pursuit as John Calloway
2020Utopia as Dr. Kevin Christie
2019Never Grow Old as Christopher 'Dutch' Albert
2018River Runs Red as Horace
2018Distorted as Vernon Sarsfield
2017Singularity as Elias Van Dorne
2017Blood Money as Miller
2017Arsenal as Sal
2016The Fog Bowl as Narrator (voice)
2016Cell as Clayton 'Clay' Riddell
2015Chi-Raq as Fr. Mike Corridan
2015Boom Bust Boom as Self
2015Love & Mercy as Brian Wilson 1980s
2015Hot Tub Time Machine 2 as Adam (uncredited)
2015Dragon Blade as Lucius
2014Drive Hard as Simon Keller
2014Reclaim as Benjamin
2014The Prince as Sam
2014Maps to the Stars as Dr. Stafford Weiss
2014The Bag Man as Jack
2014Doll & Em as John
2014Adult World as Rat Billings
2013Grand Piano as Clem
2013We're No Animals as Tony Lovecraft
2013Salinger as Self - Actor
2013The Butler as Richard Nixon
2013The Frozen Ground as Robert Hansen
2013The Numbers Station as Emerson
2012The Factory as Mike Fletcher
2012The Paperboy as Hillary Van Wetter
2012All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set as Self
2012Evening Urgant as Self
2012The Raven as Edgar Allan Poe
2011Woody Allen: A Documentary as Self
2010Shanghai as Paul Soames
2010Hot Tub Time Machine as Adam
20102012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic as Self
2010The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective as Self
20092012 as Jackson Curtis
2009The Jay Leno Show as Self
2008Igor as Igor (voice)
2008War, Inc. as Brand Hauser
2008Summerhood as Narrator (uncredited)
2008Guyville Redux
2007Grace Is Gone as Stanley Philipps
2007Martian Child as David
20071408 as Mike Enslin
2007Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten as Self
2007The Graham Norton Show as Self
2006Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride as Self
2006The Contract as Ray
2005The Ice Harvest as Charlie
2005Must Love Dogs as Jake
2003The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
2003The Road to The Sure Thing
2003Breakfast with Hunter as Self
2003Identity as Ed
2003Real Time with Bill Maher as Self
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self - Guest
2003Runaway Jury as Nick Easter
2002Adaptation. as John Cusack (uncredited)
2002Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S. as Self
2002Max as Max Rothman
2001The Concert for New York City as Self
2001Serendipity as Jonathan Trager
2001America | A Tribute to Heroes as Self
2001America's Sweethearts as Eddie Thomas
2000High Fidelity as Rob Gordon
1999Cradle Will Rock as Nelson Rockefeller
1999Being John Malkovich as Craig Schwartz
1999This Is My Father as Eddie Sharp
1999Pushing Tin as Nick Falzone
1999The Jack Bull as Myrl Redding
1998The Thin Red Line as Capt. John Gaff
1998Chicago Cab as Scary Man
1997Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil as John Kelso
1997Anastasia as Dimitri (voice)
1997Eastwood on Eastwood as Narrator (voice)
1997The View as Self
1997Con Air as Agent Vince Larkin
1997Grosse Pointe Blank as Martin Q. Blank
1996The Daily Show as Self
1996City Hall as Kevin Calhoun
1994Floundering as JC
1994The Road to Wellville as Charles Ossining
1994Bullets Over Broadway as David Shayne
1994Baseball as Voice
1994Baseball as (voice)
1994Inside the Actors Studio as Self
1993Frasier as Greg (voice)
1993Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
1993Money for Nothing as Joey Coyle
1993Map of the Human Heart as The Mapmaker
1992Bob Roberts as Cutting Edge Host
1992The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992The Player as John Cusack
1992Roadside Prophets as Caspar
1991Shadows and Fog as Student Jack
1991True Colors as Peter Burton
1990The Grifters as Roy Dillon
1989Fat Man and Little Boy as Michael Merriman
1989Say Anything... as Lloyd Dobler
1989Elvis Stories as Corky
1988Tapeheads as Ivan Alexeev
1988Eight Men Out as Buck Weaver
1987Broadcast News as Angry Messenger
1987Hot Pursuit as Dan Bartlett
1986Stand by Me as Denny Lachance
1986One Crazy Summer as Hoops McCann
1985The Journey of Natty Gann as Harry
1985Better Off Dead... as Lane Meyer
1985The Sure Thing as Walter "Gib" Gibson
1984Grandview, U.S.A. as Johnny Maine
1984Sixteen Candles as Bryce
1983Class as Roscoe
1981Entertainment Tonight
1981Wetten, dass..? as Self
1980Why Is It Always Me? as Mike
1953The Oscars as Self
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