
John Malkovich
Known for Acting · 186 credits
- Born
- 1953-12-09 (age 72)
- Place of birth
- Christopher, Illinois, USA
- Also known as
- John Gavin 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).
Known For
TV Shows (34)

The Daily Show
1996
as Self

Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self

The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self

Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
as Self

Billions
2016
as Grigor Andolov

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest

Late Night with David Letterman
1982
as Self - Guest

De Wereld Draait Door
2005
as Self

Wetten, dass..?
1981
as Self

American Masters
1986
as Self

The Jonathan Ross Show
2011
as Self

Space Force
2020
as Dr. Adrian Mallory

Performance
1991
as Deeley

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
as Self - Guest

Home Movie: The Princess Bride
2020
as The Impressive Clergyman
Romy Award
1990
as Presenter

RIPLEY
2024
as Reeves Minot

The New Pope
2020
as Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox

American Playhouse
1982
as Lee / Ben Stark

Projectorparishilton
2008

The New Look
2024
as Lucien Lelong

Lubach
2025

On n'est pas couché
2006
as Self - Guest

Napoleon
2002
as Charles de Talleyrand

The ABC Murders
2018
as Hercule Poirot
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
2002
as Self

Ten Year Old Tom
2021
as Mr. B (voice)

Crossbones
2014
as Blackbeard

Unsinkable
2024
as Chief Engineer Pollard

Les Misérables
2000
as Javert
Bishop
as Lincoln Graves

Zona+
1994
as Próprio

Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona
2019
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Movies (152)

Dangerous Liaisons
1988
as Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont

Penguins of Madagascar
2014
as Dave (voice)

Con Air
1997
as Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom

Bird Box
2018
as Douglas

RED
2010
as Marvin Boggs

Deepwater Horizon
2016
as Donald Vidrine

Rounders
1998
as Teddy KGB

Changeling
2008
as Rev. Gustav Briegleb

RED 2
2013
as Marvin Boggs

Johnny English
2003
as Pascal Sauvage

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005
as Humma Kavula

Beowulf
2007
as Unferth

The Man in the Iron Mask
1998
as Athos

Alive
1993
as Carlitos Páez / Narrator (uncredited)

Empire of the Sun
1987
as Basie

In the Hand of Dante
2026
as Joe Black

Secretariat
2010
as Lucien Laurin

Warm Bodies
2013
as Colonel Grigio

Burn After Reading
2008
as Osborne Cox

Zoolander 2
2016
as Chazz Spencer

Being John Malkovich
1999
as John Horatio Malkovich

Eragon
2006
as King Galbatorix

Ava
2020
as Duke

Shattered
2022
as Ronald

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
1999
as Charles VII

Unlocked
2017
as Bob Hunter

In the Line of Fire
1993
as Mitch Leary

Adaptation.
2002
as John Malkovich (uncredited)

The Libertine
2004
as Charles II

Mile 22
2018
as Bishop

Jonah Hex
2010
as Turnbull

Velvet Buzzsaw
2019
as Piers

Mulholland Falls
1996
as General Thomas Timms

The Killing Fields
1984
as Al Rockoff

Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2011
as Bruce Brazos

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
2019
as Judge Edward D. Cowart

Knockaround Guys
2001
as Teddy Deserve

Places in the Heart
1984
as Mr. Will

Mindcage
2022
as The Artist

The Wilde Wedding
2017
as Laurence

A Wedding
1978
as Wedding Guest (uncredited)

Wild Horse Nine
2026
as Chris

Klimt
2006
as Gustav Klimt

The Portrait of a Lady
1996
as Gilbert Osmond

White Elephant
2022
as Glen Follett

Opus
2025
as Alfred Moretti

Cannes Man
1996
as Self

Art School Confidential
2006
as Professor Sandiford

Cut Bank
2014
as Sheriff Vogel

Of Mice and Men
1992
as Lennie Small

Sacrifice
2026
as Gunnar

In Tranzit
2008
as Pavlov

The Sheltering Sky
1990
as Port

Time Regained
1999
as Baron de Charlus

RKO 281
1999
as Herman Mankiewicz

Jennifer Eight
1992
as Agent St. Anne

Chariot
2022
as Dr. Karn

Arkansas
2020
as Bright

Shadow of the Vampire
2000
as F. W. Murnau

Bullet Head
2017
as Walker

Fool's Paradise
2023
as Ed Cote

Savage Salvation
2022
as Peter

Rogue Hostage
2021
as Sam Nelson

One Ranger
2023
as Geddes

Death of a Salesman
1985
as Biff Loman

The Great Buck Howard
2008
as Buck Howard

The Yellow Tie
2025
as Sergiu Celibidache

Side by Side
2012
as Self

Ripley's Game
2002
as Tom Ripley

Mutant Chronicles
2008
as Constantine

Mary Reilly
1996
as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde

The Convent
1995
as Michael

Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA
2017
as Port (archive footage)

The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover
2014
as Dave / Dr. Octavius Brine (voice)

The Line
2024
as Beach Miller

Shadows and Fog
1991
as Clown

The Object of Beauty
1991
as Jake Bartholomew

Mr. Blake at Your Service!
2023
as Andrew Blake

Miles from Home
1988
as Barry Maxwell

The Survivalist
2021
as Aaron Ramsey

Beyond the Clouds
1995
as The Director

Drunkboat
2012
as Mort

The Ogre
1996
as Abel

Afterwards
2008
as Joseph Kay

American Dream
1981

About Love. Adults Only
2017
as Ed
Finding the Burn
2008
as Self / Osborne Cox (archive footage)

Hotel
2001
as Omar Jonnson

Seneca
2023
as Seneca

Gardens of the Night
2008
as Michael

Cesar Chavez
2014
as Bogdanovitch

Saturday Night
2010
as Self

The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
1987
as Self

Siberian Education
2013
as Grandfather Kuzya

Disgrace
2008
as David Lurie

Ladies Room
1999
as Roberto

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'
2005
as Self

A Journey to Sundance
2023
as Self

The Dancer Upstairs
2002
as Abimael Guzman (uncredited)

I Love You, Daddy
2017
as Leslie Goodwin

The Glass Menagerie
1987
as Tom Wingfield

Making Mr. Right
1987
as Jeff Peters / Ulysses

Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
1990
as Self

Eleni
1985
as Nicholas 'Nick' Gage

SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas
2009
as (archive footage)

Heart of Darkness
1993
as Kurtz

A Talking Picture
2003
as Comandante John Walesa

Queens Logic
1991
as Eliot

I’m Going Home
2001
as John Crawford

Valley of the Gods
2020
as Wes Tauros

Colour Me Kubrick
2005
as Alan Conway

Decade
1989
as Self
A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf
as Unferth

Supercon
2018
as Sid Newberry

Lines of Wellington
2012
as General Wellington

The Life of Mirrors
2025

Savage Souls
2001
as Monsieur Numance

Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
1997
as Self

Casanova Gene
2018

Safe Sets: Dying to Work in the Film Industry
2024
as self
About 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 S… With 186 credits spanning from 1975 to 2026, John Malkovich has appeared in 152 films and 34 TV shows.
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Most Popular John Malkovich Movies
- Dangerous Liaisons (1988) — as Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont
- Penguins of Madagascar (2014) — as Dave (voice)
- Con Air (1997) — as Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom
- Bird Box (2018) — as Douglas
- RED (2010) — as Marvin Boggs
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