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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).

Filmography

2025
Opus

as Alfred Moretti

Movie
2018
Bird Box

as Douglas

Movie
2018
Mile 22

as Bishop

Movie
2016
Deepwater Horizon

as Donald Vidrine

Movie
2014
Penguins of Madagascar

as Dave (voice)

Movie
2011
Transformers: Dark of the Moon

as Bruce Brazos

Movie
2010
RED

as Marvin Boggs

Movie
2003
Johnny English

as Pascal Sauvage

Movie
1999
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

as Charles VII

Movie
1998
The Man in the Iron Mask

as Athos

Movie
1997
Con Air

as Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom

Movie
1995
Beyond the Clouds

as The Director

Movie
1987
Empire of the Sun

as Basie

Movie
1984
The Killing Fields

as Al Rockoff

Movie