John Cusack
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). He then started appearing in independent films and had leading roles in Eight Men Out (1988), The Grifters (1990), Bullets Over Broadway (1994), Con Air (1997), Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Being John Malkovich (1999), High Fidelity (2000), America's Sweethearts (2001), Serendipity (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.
124 acting credits
Acting · 124
The Daily Show
1996
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
Frasier
1993
The View
1997
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Wetten, dass..?
1981
The Oscars
1953
2012
2009
The Jay Leno Show
2009
Identity
2003
Con Air
1997
Baseball
1994
Entertainment Tonight
1981
Stand by Me
1986
Utopia
2020
Hot Tub Time Machine
2010
The Thin Red Line
1998
Evening Urgant
2012
Anastasia
1997
1408
2007
Serendipity
2001
Being John Malkovich
1999
Say Anything...
1989
The Player
1992
Doll & Em
2014
Sixteen Candles
1984
The Butler
2013
Cell
2016
Adaptation.
2002
Shanghai
2010
Runaway Jury
2003
Detective Chinatown 1900
2025
The Frozen Ground
2013
High Fidelity
2000
Pushing Tin
1999
Dragon Blade
2015
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
1997
The Prince
2014
America | A Tribute to Heroes
2001
Hot Tub Time Machine 2
2015
Bullets Over Broadway
1994
America's Sweethearts
2001
Better Off Dead...
1985
Class
1983
The Paperboy
2012
City Hall
1996
The Contract
2006
Cradle Will Rock
1999
Maps to the Stars
2014
Fat Man and Little Boy
1989
The Raven
2012
Grosse Pointe Blank
1997
Singularity
2017
Must Love Dogs
2005
Igor
2008
Love & Mercy
2015
The Journey of Natty Gann
1985
The Concert for New York City
2001
The Road to Wellville
1994
Broadcast News
1987
The Grifters
1990
BRATS
2024
Chi-Raq
2015
Bob Roberts
1992
Eight Men Out
1988
The Sure Thing
1985
Martian Child
2007
Adult World
2014
The Jack Bull
1999
Woody Allen: A Documentary
2011
Decoded
2024
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
2010
Never Grow Old
2019
One Crazy Summer
1986
Shadows and Fog
1991
The Bag Man
2014
True Colors
1991
Floundering
1994
Grand Piano
2013
Tapeheads
1988
River Runs Red
2018
Money for Nothing
1993
The Factory
2012
Arsenal
2017
Grace Is Gone
2007
Chicago Cab
1998
Hot Pursuit
1987
The Ice Harvest
2005
The Numbers Station
2013
Blood Money
2017
Grandview, U.S.A.
1984
Fog of War
2025
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
2007
War, Inc.
2008
Drive Hard
2014
Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S.
2002
Salinger
2013
Distorted
2018
Max
2002
Reclaim
2014
Map of the Human Heart
1993
2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
2010
Meister der Apokalypse - Roland Emmerich
2025
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
2006
This Is My Father
1999
Roadside Prophets
1992
Summerhood
2008
Pursuit
2022
All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set
2012
Breakfast with Hunter
2003
We're No Animals
2013
Elvis Stories
1989
My Only Sunshine
—
Guyville Redux
2008
Eastwood on Eastwood
1997
The Fog Bowl
2016
Boom Bust Boom
2015
The Road to The Sure Thing
2003
Why Is It Always Me?
1980