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).
186 acting credits · 4 directing credits
Acting · 186
The Daily Show
1996
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Saturday Night Live
1975
Billions
2016
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
Late Night with David Letterman
1982
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
American Masters
1986
Wetten, dass..?
1981
The Jonathan Ross Show
2011
Penguins of Madagascar
2014
Space Force
2020
De Wereld Draait Door
2005
Dangerous Liaisons
1988
Performance
1991
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
Con Air
1997
RED
2010
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
2020
Projectorparishilton
2008
The New Look
2024
RIPLEY
2024
Romy Award
1990
Bird Box
2018
American Playhouse
1982
Lubach
2025
The New Pope
2020
RED 2
2013
Rounders
1998
Beowulf
2007
Johnny English
2003
Deepwater Horizon
2016
Being John Malkovich
1999
Ava
2020
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005
Alive
1993
Shattered
2022
Empire of the Sun
1987
Burn After Reading
2008
The Man in the Iron Mask
1998
Changeling
2008
Eragon
2006
On n'est pas couché
2006
The ABC Murders
2018
Napoleon
2002
Secretariat
2010
Mile 22
2018
Warm Bodies
2013
In the Line of Fire
1993
Opus
2025
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
1999
Mindcage
2022
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
2019
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
2002
Zoolander 2
2016
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2011
Jonah Hex
2010
Ten Year Old Tom
2021
Les Misérables
2000
Crossbones
2014
Places in the Heart
1984
Adaptation.
2002
Unsinkable
2024
The Killing Fields
1984
Sacrifice
2026
Unlocked
2017
Mulholland Falls
1996
In the Hand of Dante
2026
Of Mice and Men
1992
Wild Horse Nine
2026
Savage Salvation
2022
Velvet Buzzsaw
2019
Bullet Head
2017
The Great Buck Howard
2008
In Tranzit
2008
Mutant Chronicles
2008
Arkansas
2020
Mary Reilly
1996
The Libertine
2004
Knockaround Guys
2001
Jennifer Eight
1992
Art School Confidential
2006
About Love. Adults Only
2017
Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona
2019
The Portrait of a Lady
1996
White Elephant
2022
Shadow of the Vampire
2000
The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover
2014
Fool's Paradise
2023
Rogue Hostage
2021
Bishop
—
One Ranger
2023
Zona+
1994
Hotel
2001
Disgrace
2008
Shadows and Fog
1991
The Survivalist
2021
The Yellow Tie
2025
Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA
2017
Side by Side
2012
RKO 281
1999
The Wilde Wedding
2017
Mr. Blake at Your Service!
2023
Cut Bank
2014
Beyond the Clouds
1995
Death of a Salesman
1985
The Line
2024
Queens Logic
1991
The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
1987
Siberian Education
2013
Seneca
2023
SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas
2009
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
Miles from Home
1988
A Wedding
1978
Time Regained
1999
The Ogre
1996
Gardens of the Night
2008
Klimt
2006
Colour Me Kubrick
2005
The Sheltering Sky
1990
Chariot
2022
Ripley's Game
2002
Valley of the Gods
2020
I Love You, Daddy
2017
Cesar Chavez
2014
Afterwards
2008
Lines of Wellington
2012
A Journey to Sundance
2023
Supercon
2018
Drunkboat
2012
The Dancer Upstairs
2002
Saturday Night
2010
Heart of Darkness
1993
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
1995
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
1997
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
1990
Eleni
1985
Cannes Man
1996
The Object of Beauty
1991
Safe Sets: Dying to Work in the Film Industry
2024
A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf
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The Glass Menagerie
1987
Making Mr. Right
1987
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
1986
Casanova Variations
2014
La Traversée du désir
2009
All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set
2012
I’m Going Home
2001
Word of Honor
1981
Ladies Room
1999
Last Call
2020
Hideous Man
2002
True West
1984
Santabear's High Flying Adventure
1987
Savage Souls
2001
Decade
1989
A Talking Picture
2003
The Convent
1995
A Winter's Journey
—
Finding the Burn
2008
Noseland
2014
American Dream
1981
The Life of Mirrors
2025
100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story
2011
Jack Unterweger - The Charming Serial Killer
2014
Annie Lennox: Totally Diva
1992
The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer
2010
Rocket to the Moon
1986
Psychogenic Fugue
2016
Lost and Found in Paris
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Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
2007
Breaking Rachmaninoff
2023
Old Times
1991
Music at the Sea
2008
Casanova Gene
2018
Welcome Back, George
2008
The Music Critic
2018
Butterflies
2011
Ecstasy
2013
Being Related to John Malkovich
2026
Say Goodnight, Gracie
1983
Le paradoxe de John Malkovich
2014
Just Call Me God
2017
Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies
2008
