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John Malkovich

Actor, Producer, Director, WriterBorn December 9, 1953 (71 years)
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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Movies & Shows on Plex

  • The Accidental Tourist
  • The Great Buck Howard
  • Death of a Salesman
  • Bullet Head
  • Shattered
  • Disgrace
  • Afterwards
  • Cesar Chavez
  • Klimt
  • In Tranzit
  • The Object of Beauty
  • Valley of the Gods
  • Supercon
  • Casanova Variations

Known For

  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower
  • Juno
  • RED
  • Being John Malkovich
  • Changeling
  • Bird Box
  • Con Air
  • In the Line of Fire
  • RED 2
  • Burn After Reading
  • Empire of the Sun
  • Deepwater Horizon
  • Warm Bodies
  • Of Mice and Men
  • Shadow of the Vampire
  • The Man in the Iron Mask
  • Johnny English
  • Beowulf
  • Ghost World
  • Transformers: Dark of the Moon
  • Dangerous Liaisons
  • Space Force
  • The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
  • Ava

Featured Videos

    Filmography

    2115
    100 Years · as Hero
    2025
    2025
    Opus · as Moretti
    2024
    RIPLEY (TV Series) · as Reeves Minot
    2024
    The New Look (TV Series) · as Lucien Lelong
    2023
    Well Done! · as Andrew Blake
    2023
    The Line · as Beach Miller
    2023
    Fool's Paradise · as Ed Cote
    2023
    One Ranger · as Geddes
    2023
    Seneca · as Seneca
    2022
    Mindcage · as The Artist
    2022
    Savage Salvation · as Peter
    2022
    White Elephant · as Glen Follett
    2022
    Chariot · as Dr. Karn
    2022
    Shattered · as Ronald
    2021
    The Survivalist · as Aaron Ramsey
    2021
    Ten Year Old Tom (TV Series) · as Mr. B (voice)
    2021
    Rogue Hostage · as Sam Nelson
    2020
    Ava · as Duke
    2020
    Home Movie: The Princess Bride (TV Series) · as The Impressive Clergyman
    2020
    Space Force (TV Series) · as Dr. Adrian Mallory
    2020
    Arkansas · as Bright
    2020
    The New Pope (TV Series) · as Giovanni Paolo Iii / Sir John Brannox
    2019
    2019
    Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile · as Judge Edward D. Cowart
    2019
    Russia from Above · as Narrator
    2019
    Velvet Buzzsaw · as Piers
    2018
    The ABC Murders (TV Series) · as Hercule Poirot
    2018
    Bird Box · as Douglas
    2018
    Mile 22 · as Bishop
    2018
    Supercon · as Sid Newberry
    2018
    2017
    Last Call · as Dr. Felton
    2017
    The Music Critic · as The Narrator
    2017
    2017
    I Love You, Daddy · as Leslie Goodwin
    2017
    Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda · as Port (archive Footage)
    2017
    The Wilde Wedding · as Laurence
    2017
    About Love. For Adults Only · as Лектор Эд
    2017
    2017
    Unlocked · as Bob Hunter
    2016
    Deepwater Horizon · as Donald Vidrine
    2016
    Zoolander 2 · as Chazz Spencer
    2016
    Billions (TV Series) · as Grigor Andolov
    2014
    2014
    Penguins of Madagascar · as Dave (voice)
    2014
    Cut Bank · as Sheriff Vogel
    2014
    The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation Search and Rescue · as Dave / Dr. Octavius Brine (voice)
    2014
    Crossbones (TV Series) · as Blackbeard
    2014
    Cesar Chavez · as Bogdanovitch
    2013
    RED 2 · as Marvin Boggs
    2013
    Deadly Code · as Grandfather Kuzya
    2013
    Warm Bodies · as Colonel Grigio
    2012
    Lines of Wellington · as General Wellington
    2012
    Lines of Wellington (TV Series) · as General Wellington
    2011
    2010
    RED · as Marvin Boggs
    2010
    Secretariat · as Lucien Laurin
    2010
    Drunkboat · as Mort
    2010
    Jonah Hex · as Turnbull
    2010
    2009
    2008
    Disgrace · as David Lurie
    2008
    Gardens of the Night · as Michael
    2008
    Changeling · as Rev. Gustav Briegleb
    2008
    Afterwards · as Joseph Kay
    2008
    2008
    Burn After Reading · as Osborne Cox
    2008
    Mutant Chronicles · as Constantine
    2008
    2008
    In Tranzit · as Pavlov
    2008
    2007
    Beowulf · as Unferth
    2006
    Eragon · as King Galbatorix
    2006
    Art School Confidential · as Professor Sandiford
    2006
    Klimt · as Gustav Klimt
    2005
    Color Me Kubrick · as Alan Conway
    2005
    2005
    2004
    The Libertine · as Charles Ii
    2003
    A Talking Picture · as Comandante John Walesa
    2003
    Johnny English · as Pascal Sauvage
    2002
    Adaptation. · as John Malkovich (uncredited)
    2002
    The Dancer Upstairs · as Abimael Guzman (uncredited)
    2002
    Napoleon (TV Series) · as Charles De Talleyrand
    2002
    Ripley's Game · as Tom Ripley
    2001
    Knockaround Guys · as Teddy Deserve
    2001
    Hotel · as Omar Jonnson
    2001
    I'm Going Home · as John Crawford
    2001
    Savage Souls · as Monsieur Numance
    2000
    2000
    Les Misérables (2000) (TV Series) · as Javert
    2000
    Shadow of the Vampire · as F. W. Murnau
    1999
    Ladies Room · as Roberto
    1999
    RKO 281 · as Herman Mankiewicz
    1999
    1999
    Being John Malkovich · as John Horatio Malkovich
    1999
    Marcel Proust's Time Regained · as Baron De Charlus
    1998
    Rounders · as Teddy Kgb
    1998
    1997
    Con Air · as Cyrus "the Virus" Grissom
    1996
    The Portrait of a Lady · as Gilbert Osmond
    1996
    The Ogre · as Abel
    1996
    Mulholland Falls · as General Thomas Timms
    1996
    Mary Reilly · as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde
    1995
    Beyond the Clouds · as The Director
    1995
    The Convent · as Michael
    1994
    1993
    Heart of Darkness · as Kurtz
    1993
    In the Line of Fire · as Mitch Leary
    1993
    Alive · as Carlitos Páez / Narrator (uncredited)
    1992
    Jennifer 8 · as Agent St. Anne
    1992
    Of Mice and Men · as Lennie Small
    1991
    Shadows and Fog · as Clown
    1991
    Performance (TV Series) · as Deeley
    1991
    The Object of Beauty · as Jake Bartholomew
    1991
    Queens Logic · as Eliot
    1990
    1989
    The 61st Annual Academy Awards · as Vicomte Sébastien De Valmont
    1988
    Dangerous Liaisons · as Vicomte Sébastien De Valmont
    1988
    Miles from Home · as Barry Maxwell
    1987
    Empire of the Sun · as Basie
    1987
    The Glass Menagerie · as Tom Wingfield
    1987
    Making Mr. Right · as Jeff Peters / Ulysses
    1985
    Eleni · as Nicholas 'nick' Gage
    1985
    1984
    The Killing Fields · as Al Rockoff
    1984
    Places in the Heart · as Mr. Will
    1981
    Word of Honor · as Gary
    1980
    American Playhouse (TV Series) · as Lee
    1978
    A Wedding · as Wedding Guest (uncredited)

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