Born 1953 (age 72) · Christopher, Illinois, USA
Appears in 198 titles

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

Bird Box
6.8
Bird Box
2018
as Douglas
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
6.2
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2011
as Bruce Brazos
RED
6.7
RED
2010
as Marvin Boggs
Warm Bodies
6.5
Warm Bodies
2013
as Colonel Grigio
Burn After Reading
6.7
Burn After Reading
2008
as Osborne Cox
Deepwater Horizon
6.9
Deepwater Horizon
2016
as Donald Vidrine
Being John Malkovich
7.4
Being John Malkovich
1999
as John Horatio Malkovich
Con Air
6.8
Con Air
1997
as Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom
Changeling
7.6
Changeling
2008
as Rev. Gustav Briegleb
Penguins of Madagascar
6.5
Penguins of Madagascar
2014
as Dave (voice)
RED 2
6.5
RED 2
2013
as Marvin Boggs
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
6.7
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005
as Humma Kavula
The Man in the Iron Mask
6.6
The Man in the Iron Mask
1998
as Athos
Johnny English
6.3
Johnny English
2003
as Pascal Sauvage
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
7.0
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
2019
as Judge Edward D. Cowart
Eragon
5.1
Eragon
2006
as King Galbatorix
Beowulf
5.9
Beowulf
2007
as Unferth
Adaptation.
7.3
Adaptation.
2002
as John Malkovich (uncredited)
Ava
5.8
Ava
2020
as Duke
Mile 22
6.2
Mile 22
2018
as Bishop