Cast
John Malkovich
Acting
Cast
John Malkovich
Known for
Acting
Born
1953-12-09
From
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).
★6.5
MOVIE2014
Penguins of Madagascar
as Dave (voice)
★6.7
MOVIE2010
RED
as Marvin Boggs
★6.8
MOVIE2018
Bird Box
as Douglas
★6.8
MOVIE1997
Con Air
as Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom
★6.9
MOVIE2016
Deepwater Horizon
as Donald Vidrine
★6.5
MOVIE2013
RED 2
as Marvin Boggs
★6.5
MOVIE2013
Warm Bodies
as Colonel Grigio
★5.5
MOVIE2026
In the Hand of Dante
as Joe Black
★6.7
MOVIE1998
The Man in the Iron Mask
as Athos
★6.3
MOVIE2003
Johnny English
as Pascal Sauvage
★6.7
MOVIE2005
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
as Humma Kavula
★7.4
MOVIE1999
Being John Malkovich
as John Horatio Malkovich
★5.9
MOVIE2007
Beowulf
as Unferth (Voice)
★7.5
MOVIE1987
Empire of the Sun
as Basie
★6.7
MOVIE2008
Burn After Reading
as Osborne Cox
★7.2
MOVIE1984
Places in the Heart
as Mr. Will
★6.9
MOVIE1993
Alive
as Carlitos Páez / Narrator (uncredited)
★5.8
MOVIE2020
Ava
as Duke
★7.0
MOVIE1993
In the Line of Fire
as Mitch Leary
★7.0
MOVIE2019
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
as Judge Edward D. Cowart
★7.6
MOVIE2008
Changeling
as Rev. Gustav Briegleb
★6.3
MOVIE2017
Unlocked
as Bob Hunter
★5.1
MOVIE2006
Eragon
as King Galbatorix
★6.3
MOVIE2018
Mile 22
as Bishop
★7.0
MOVIE1998
Rounders
as Teddy KGB
★6.4
MOVIE1999
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
as Charles VII
★5.5
MOVIE2008
In Tranzit
as Pavlov
★7.3
MOVIE2002
Adaptation.
as John Malkovich (uncredited)
★8.3
MOVIE2025
The Yellow Tie
as Sergiu Celibidache
★7.4
MOVIE2010
Secretariat
as Lucien Laurin
MOVIE2026
Wild Horse Nine
as Chris
★5.1
MOVIE2017
The Wilde Wedding
as Laurence
★5.0
MOVIE2010
Jonah Hex
as Turnbull
★7.2
MOVIE1988
Dangerous Liaisons
as Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont
★4.9
MOVIE2016
Zoolander 2
as Chazz Spencer
★5.7
MOVIE2022
Shattered
as Ronald
★5.8
MOVIE2022
White Elephant
as Glen Follett
★5.9
MOVIE2022
Mindcage
as The Artist
★5.9
MOVIE2004
The Libertine
as Charles II
★5.4
MOVIE2019
Velvet Buzzsaw
as Piers
★6.0
MOVIE1996
The Portrait of a Lady
as Gilbert Osmond
★7.5
MOVIE1984
The Killing Fields
as Al Rockoff
★7.3
MOVIE1992
Of Mice and Men
as Lennie Small
★6.2
MOVIE2011
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
as Bruce Brazos
★7.4
MOVIE2017
Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA
as Port (archive footage)
★5.7
MOVIE2025
Opus
as Alfred Moretti
★6.0
MOVIE1996
Mulholland Falls
as General Thomas Timms
★6.4
MOVIE2023
Mr. Blake at Your Service!
as Andrew Blake
★5.8
MOVIE2014
Cut Bank
as Sheriff Vogel
★6.8
MOVIE2013
Siberian Education
as Grandfather Kuzya
★6.0
MOVIE2008
The Great Buck Howard
as Buck Howard
★5.7
MOVIE2012
Lines of Wellington
as General Wellington
★5.0
MOVIE2017
Bullet Head
as Walker
★6.2
MOVIE2008
Disgrace
as David Lurie
MOVIE2026
Sacrifice
as Gunnar
★5.3
MOVIE2008
Mutant Chronicles
as Constantine
★6.1
MOVIE2001
Knockaround Guys
as Teddy Deserve
★5.8
MOVIE1996
Mary Reilly
as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde
★6.1
MOVIE2006
Art School Confidential
as Professor Sandiford
★6.1
MOVIE2002
The Dancer Upstairs
as Abimael Guzman (uncredited)
★6.9
MOVIE1985
Death of a Salesman
as Biff Loman
★5.7
MOVIE2009
La Traversée du désir
as Self
★5.6
MOVIE2021
Rogue Hostage
as Sam Nelson
★4.6
MOVIE2023
Fool's Paradise
as Ed Cote
★6.1
MOVIE1992
Jennifer Eight
as Agent St. Anne
★7.3
MOVIE2012
Side by Side
as Self
★6.5
MOVIE1990
The Sheltering Sky
as Port
MOVIE2023
A Journey to Sundance
as Self
★4.0
MOVIE1999
Ladies Room
as Roberto
★6.1
MOVIE2022
Savage Salvation
as Peter
★6.3
MOVIE1999
Time Regained
as Baron de Charlus
★6.2
MOVIE1995
Beyond the Clouds
as The Director
★6.7
MOVIE1991
Shadows and Fog
as Clown
★6.7
MOVIE2000
Shadow of the Vampire
as F. W. Murnau
★5.7
MOVIE2017
I Love You, Daddy
as Leslie Goodwin
MOVIE2023
Breaking Rachmaninoff
★4.4
MOVIE2021
The Survivalist
as Aaron Ramsey
★5.8
MOVIE2020
Arkansas
as Bright
★6.2
MOVIE2014
Cesar Chavez
as Bogdanovitch
★6.4
MOVIE2002
Ripley's Game
as Tom Ripley
★5.5
MOVIE2008
Afterwards
as Joseph Kay
★6.2
MOVIE2023
One Ranger
as Geddes
★4.5
MOVIE2022
Chariot
as Dr. Karn
★4.0
MOVIE2002
Hideous Man
as Narrator
★6.5
MOVIE1999
RKO 281
as Herman Mankiewicz
★5.2
MOVIE1991
The Object of Beauty
as Jake Bartholomew
★6.3
MOVIE1987
The Glass Menagerie
as Tom Wingfield
★6.3
MOVIE2014
The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover
as Dave / Dr. Octavius Brine (voice)
★7.7
MOVIE2010
Saturday Night
as Self
★5.5
MOVIE2017
About Love. Adults Only
as Ed
★5.2
MOVIE2006
Klimt
as Gustav Klimt
★6.0
MOVIE2017
Just Call Me God
as Satur Diman Cha
★9.5
MOVIE1992
Annie Lennox: Totally Diva
★6.4
MOVIE1996
The Ogre
as Abel
★6.7
MOVIE2003
A Talking Picture
as Comandante John Walesa
MOVIE2025
The Life of Mirrors
★5.8
MOVIE1994
Heart of Darkness
as Kurtz
★4.9
MOVIE2001
Savage Souls
as Monsieur Numance
★5.7
MOVIE2024
The Line
as Beach Miller
MOVIE2008
Finding the Burn
as Self / Osborne Cox (archive footage)
MOVIE2008
Music at the Sea
as Self
★6.2
MOVIE2008
Gardens of the Night
as Michael
★5.2
MOVIE1987
Making Mr. Right
as Jeff Peters / Ulysses
★4.5
MOVIE2018
The Music Critic
as The Narrator
★4.1
MOVIE2020
Last Call
as Dr. Felton
★7.5
MOVIE1981
Word of Honor
as Gary
★5.8
MOVIE1985
Eleni
as Nicholas 'Nick' Gage
★5.4
MOVIE1988
Miles from Home
as Barry Maxwell
★4.6
MOVIE1991
Old Times
★10.0
MOVIE1986
Rocket to the Moon
as Ben Stark
★5.5
MOVIE1996
Cannes Man
as Self
★5.8
MOVIE1991
Queens Logic
as Eliot
★6.3
MOVIE1978
A Wedding
as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
★5.0
MOVIE2014
Noseland
as Self
★4.5
MOVIE2018
Supercon
as Sid Newberry
★5.2
MOVIE2020
Valley of the Gods
as Wes Tauros
★7.4
MOVIE2009
SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas
as (archive footage)
MOVIE1990
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
as Self
★5.7
MOVIE2005
Colour Me Kubrick
as Alan Conway
★6.8
MOVIE2001
I’m Going Home
as John Crawford
MOVIE2005
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'
as Self
★5.3
MOVIE2014
Casanova Variations
as Giacomo
★5.0
MOVIE2012
Drunkboat
as Mort
★5.0
MOVIE2023
Seneca
as Seneca
★7.0
MOVIE1995
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
as Self (uncredited)
★10.0
MOVIE1983
Say Goodnight, Gracie
as Steve
★3.4
MOVIE2001
Hotel
as Omar Jonnson
★1.0
MOVIETBA
Lost and Found in Paris
as Wim Waldemar
MOVIE2012
All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set
as Self
★6.4
MOVIE1987
The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
as Self
MOVIETBA
A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf
as Unferth
MOVIETBA
A Winter's Journey
as Leiermann
★5.3
MOVIE1995
The Convent
as Michael
MOVIE1986
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
as Self / Biff
★8.0
MOVIE2014
Jack Unterweger - The Charming Serial Killer
MOVIE2008
Welcome Back, George
as Self
★8.0
MOVIE2016
Psychogenic Fugue
as All characters
★8.5
MOVIE1989
Decade
as Self
★9.0
MOVIE1981
American Dream
MOVIE2011
Butterflies
as Man
★8.0
MOVIE1987
Santabear's High Flying Adventure
as Santa Claus (voice)
MOVIE2024
Safe Sets: Dying to Work in the Film Industry
as self
MOVIE2014
Le paradoxe de John Malkovich
as Himself
★7.0
MOVIE2013
Ecstasy
as Vinny
★7.5
MOVIE1997
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
as Self
★1.0
MOVIE2018
Casanova Gene
★4.0
MOVIE2010
The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer
as Jack Unterweger
★8.3
MOVIE1984
True West
as Lee
★9.0
MOVIE2011
100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story
as Self
★6.5
MOVIE2008
Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies
as Narrator
MOVIE2007
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
MOVIE2026
Being Related to John Malkovich
as Self