
John 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).
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Acting History
2026
Sacrifice as Gunnar
2025The Yellow Tie as Sergiu Celibidache
2025In the Hand of Dante as Joe Black
2025The Life of Mirrors
2025Lubach
2025Opus as Alfred Moretti
2024Safe Sets - Dying to Work in the Film Industry as self
2024The Line as Beach Miller
2024Unsinkable as Chief Engineer Pollard
2024RIPLEY as Reeves Minot
2024The New Look as Lucien Lelong
2023Mr. Blake at Your Service! as Andrew Blake
2023Fool's Paradise as Ed Cote
2023One Ranger as Geddes
2023Breaking Rachmaninoff
2023Seneca as Seneca
2023A Journey to Sundance as Self
2022Mindcage as The Artist
2022Savage Salvation as Peter
2022White Elephant as Glen Follett
2022Chariot as Dr. Karn
2022Shattered as Ronald
2021The Survivalist as Aaron Ramsey
2021Ten Year Old Tom as Mr. B (voice)
2021Rogue Hostage as Sam Nelson
2020Last Call as Dr. Felton
2020Valley of the Gods as Wes Tauros
2020Ava as Duke
2020Home Movie: The Princess Bride as The Impressive Clergyman
2020Space Force as Dr. Adrian Mallory
2020Arkansas as Bright
2020The New Pope as Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox
2019Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona as Self - Narrator (voice)
2019Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile as Judge Edward D. Cowart
2019Velvet Buzzsaw as Piers
2018The ABC Murders as Hercule Poirot
2018Bird Box as Douglas
2018The Music Critic as The Narrator
2018Mile 22 as Bishop
2018Supercon as Sid Newberry
2018Casanova Gene
2017Bullet Head as Walker
2017Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda as Port (archive footage)
2017The Wilde Wedding as Laurence
2017I Love You, Daddy as Leslie Goodwin
2017About Love. Adults Only as лектор Эд
2017Just Call Me God as Satur Diman Cha
2017Unlocked as Bob Hunter
2016Deepwater Horizon as Donald Vidrine
2016Psychogenic Fugue as All characters
2016Zoolander 2 as Chazz Spencer
2016Billions as Grigor Andolov
2014Penguins of Madagascar as Dave (voice)
2014Cut Bank as Sheriff Vogel
2014Casanova Variations as Giacomo
2014The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation Search and Rescue as Dave / Dr. Octavius Brine (voice)
2014Jack Unterweger - The Charming Serial Killer
2014Crossbones as Blackbeard
2014Noseland as Self
2014Cesar Chavez as Bogdanovitch
2014Le paradoxe de John Malkovich as Himself
2014Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
2013RED 2 as Marvin Boggs
2013Ecstasy as Vinny
2013Siberian Education as Grandfather Kuzya
2013Warm Bodies as Colonel Grigio
2012Lines of Wellington as General Wellington
2012Side by Side as Self
2012Drunkboat as Mort
2012All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set as Self
2011The Jonathan Ross Show as Self
2011Transformers: Dark of the Moon as Bruce Brazos
2011100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story as Self
2010RED as Marvin Boggs
2010Secretariat as Lucien Laurin
2010Jonah Hex as Turnbull
2010The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer as Jack Unterweger
2010Saturday Night as Self
2009SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas as (archive footage)
2009La Traversée du désir as Self
2008Finding the Burn as Self / Osborne Cox (archive footage)
2008Welcome Back, George as Self
2008Gardens of the Night as Michael
2008Changeling as Rev. Gustav Briegleb
2008Afterwards as Joseph Kay
2008Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies as Narrator
2008Music at the Sea as Self
2008Disgrace as David Lurie
2008Burn After Reading as Osborne Cox
2008Mutant Chronicles as Constantine
2008Projectorparishilton
2008In Tranzit as Pavlov
2008The Great Buck Howard as Buck Howard
2007Beowulf as Unferth
2007Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
2007The Graham Norton Show as Self
2006Eragon as King Galbatorix
2006On n'est pas couché as Self - Guest
2006Art School Confidential as Professor Sandiford
2006Klimt as Gustav Klimt
2006The Call as Exorcist
2005De Wereld Draait Door as Self
2005Colour Me Kubrick as Alan Conway
2005Don'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
2005The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as Humma Kavula
2005The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
2004The Libertine as Charles II
2003A Talking Picture as Comandante John Walesa
2003Johnny English as Pascal Sauvage
2002Adaptation. as John Malkovich (uncredited)
2002Napoleon as Charles de Talleyrand
2002The Dancer Upstairs as Abimael Guzman (uncredited)
2002Ripley's Game as Tom Ripley
2002Hideous Man as Narrator
2002Gero von Boehm begegnet... as Self
2001Knockaround Guys as Teddy Deserve
2001Friday Night with Jonathan Ross as Self - Guest
2001Hotel as Omar Jonnson
2001Savage Souls as Monsieur Numance
2001I’m Going Home as John Crawford
2000Les Misérables as Javert
2000Shadow of the Vampire as F. W. Murnau
2000RKO 281 as Herman Mankiewicz
1999Ladies Room as Roberto
1999Being John Malkovich as John Horatio Malkovich
1999The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc as Charles VII
1999Time Regained as Baron de Charlus
1998Rounders as Teddy KGB
1998The Man in the Iron Mask as Athos
1997Con Air as Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom
1997Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady as Self
1996The Portrait of a Lady as Gilbert Osmond
1996The Ogre as Abel
1996The Daily Show as Self
1996Cannes Man as Self
1996Mulholland Falls as General Thomas Timms
1996Mary Reilly as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde
1995Beyond the Clouds as The Director
1995The Convent as Michael
1995To Make a Film Is to Be Alive as Self (uncredited)
1994Zona+ as Próprio
1993Heart of Darkness as Kurtz
1993Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
1993In the Line of Fire as Mitch Leary
1993Alive as Carlitos Páez / Narrator (uncredited)
1992Jennifer Eight as Agent St. Anne
1992Of Mice and Men as Lennie Small
1992Annie Lennox: Totally Diva
1991Shadows and Fog as Clown
1991Old Times
1991Performance as Deeley
1991The Object of Beauty as Jake Bartholomew
1991Queens Logic as Eliot
1990Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter as Self
1990The Sheltering Sky as Port
1990Romy Award as Presenter
1989Decade as Self
1988Dangerous Liaisons as Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont
1988Miles from Home as Barry Maxwell
1987The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun as Self
1987Empire of the Sun as Basie
1987Santabear's High Flying Adventure as Santa Claus (voice)
1987The Glass Menagerie as Tom Wingfield
1987Making Mr. Right as Jeff Peters / Ulysses
1986American Masters as Self
1986Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’ as Self / Biff
1986Rocket to the Moon as Ben Stark
1985Eleni as Nicholas 'Nick' Gage
1985Death of a Salesman as Biff Loman
1984The Killing Fields as Al Rockoff
1984Places in the Heart as Mr. Will
1984True West as Lee
1983Say Goodnight, Gracie as Steve
1982American Playhouse as Lee
1982American Playhouse as Ben Stark
1981American Dream
1981Wetten, dass..? as Self
1981Word of Honor as Gary
1978A Wedding as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
1975Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
—Lost and Found in Paris as Wim Waldemar
—100 Years
—A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf as Unferth
—Wild Horse Nine as Chris
—Thelma as Walker Percy
—8 Husbands as George Ambrose
—A Winter's Journey as Leiermann
—Dream Walkers









