John Malkovich
Acting • Born 1953-12-09
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).
Filmography
188 credits
Dangerous Liaisons
Movie • 1988
Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
Movie • 2017
Port (archive footage)
Being John Malkovich
Movie • 1999
John Horatio Malkovich
The Killing Fields
Movie • 1984
Al Rockoff
Rounders
Movie • 1998
Teddy KGB
Con Air
Movie • 1997
Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Movie • 1999
Charles VII
Afterwards
Movie • 2008
Joseph Kay
Beowulf
Movie • 2007
Unferth
Eragon
Movie • 2006
King Galbatorix
Empire of the Sun
Movie • 1987
Basie
Changeling
Movie • 2008
Rev. Gustav Briegleb
Jennifer Eight
Movie • 1992
Agent St. Anne
Ripley's Game
Movie • 2002
Tom Ripley
Heart of Darkness
Movie • 1993
Kurtz
Shadow of the Vampire
Movie • 2000
F. W. Murnau
Mulholland Falls
Movie • 1996
General Thomas Timms
Burn After Reading
Movie • 2008
Osborne Cox
Seneca
Movie • 2023
Seneca
Jonah Hex
Movie • 2010
Turnbull
The Sheltering Sky
Movie • 1990
Port
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Movie • 2005
Humma Kavula
Knockaround Guys
Movie • 2001
Teddy Deserve
The Libertine
Movie • 2004
Charles II
In Tranzit
Movie • 2008
Pavlov
Making Mr. Right
Movie • 1987
Jeff Peters / Ulysses
Johnny English
Movie • 2003
Pascal Sauvage
Mary Reilly
Movie • 1996
Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde
Beyond the Clouds
Movie • 1995
The Director
Disgrace
Movie • 2008
David Lurie
One Ranger
Movie • 2023
Geddes
Death of a Salesman
Movie • 1985
Biff Loman
The Man in the Iron Mask
Movie • 1998
Athos
Art School Confidential
Movie • 2006
Professor Sandiford
Of Mice and Men
Movie • 1992
Lennie Small
Mutant Chronicles
Movie • 2008
Constantine
In the Line of Fire
Movie • 1993
Mitch Leary
Colour Me Kubrick
Movie • 2005
Alan Conway
Places in the Heart
Movie • 1984
Mr. Will
Lost and Found in Paris
Movie
Wim Waldemar
Klimt
Movie • 2006
Gustav Klimt
The Portrait of a Lady
Movie • 1996
Gilbert Osmond
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Movie • 2011
Bruce Brazos
The Great Buck Howard
Movie • 2008
Buck Howard
Gardens of the Night
Movie • 2008
Michael
Music at the Sea
Movie • 2008
Self
RED
Movie • 2010
Marvin Boggs
Time Regained
Movie • 1999
Baron de Charlus
Savage Souls
Movie • 2001
Monsieur Numance
The Ogre
Movie • 1996
Abel
Secretariat
Movie • 2010
Lucien Laurin
Rocket to the Moon
Movie • 1986
Ben Stark
Queens Logic
Movie • 1991
Eliot
RKO 281
Movie • 1999
Herman Mankiewicz
Miles from Home
Movie • 1988
Barry Maxwell
Shadows and Fog
Movie • 1991
Clown
The Glass Menagerie
Movie • 1987
Tom Wingfield
Warm Bodies
Movie • 2013
Colonel Grigio
Drunkboat
Movie • 2012
Mort
The Object of Beauty
Movie • 1991
Jake Bartholomew
Mr. Blake at Your Service!
Movie • 2023
Andrew Blake
Lines of Wellington
Movie • 2012
General Wellington
The Convent
Movie • 1995
Michael
RED 2
Movie • 2013
Marvin Boggs
Old Times
Movie • 1991
Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies
Movie • 2008
Narrator
Siberian Education
Movie • 2013
Grandfather Kuzya
Ladies Room
Movie • 1999
Roberto
Ecstasy
Movie • 2013
Vinny
Cesar Chavez
Movie • 2014
Bogdanovitch
True West
Movie • 1984
Lee
White Elephant
Movie • 2022
Glen Follett
Hotel
Movie • 2001
Omar Jonnson
In the Hand of Dante
Movie • 2025
Joe Black
Penguins of Madagascar
Movie • 2014
Dave (voice)
Cut Bank
Movie • 2014
Sheriff Vogel
The Line
Movie • 2024
Beach Miller
Opus
Movie • 2025
Alfred Moretti
Noseland
Movie • 2014
Self
Casanova Variations
Movie • 2014
Giacomo
Eleni
Movie • 1985
Nicholas 'Nick' Gage
Saturday Night
Movie • 2010
Self
Santabear's High Flying Adventure
Movie • 1987
Santa Claus (voice)
SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas
Movie • 2009
(archive footage)
Cannes Man
Movie • 1996
Self
Mindcage
Movie • 2022
The Artist
The Yellow Tie
Movie • 2025
Sergiu Celibidache
Word of Honor
Movie • 1981
Gary
Hideous Man
Movie • 2002
Narrator
American Dream
Movie • 1981
A Talking Picture
Movie • 2003
Comandante John Walesa
Zoolander 2
Movie • 2016
Chazz Spencer
Le paradoxe de John Malkovich
Movie • 2014
Himself
I’m Going Home
Movie • 2001
John Crawford
Deepwater Horizon
Movie • 2016
Donald Vidrine
Adaptation.
Movie • 2002
John Malkovich (uncredited)
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
Movie • 1995
Self (uncredited)
Unlocked
Movie • 2017
Bob Hunter
Psychogenic Fugue
Movie • 2016
All characters
Supercon
Movie • 2018
Sid Newberry
Valley of the Gods
Movie • 2020
Wes Tauros
Last Call
Movie • 2020
Dr. Felton
About Love. Adults Only
Movie • 2017
Ed
Alive
Movie • 1993
Carlitos Páez / Narrator (uncredited)
All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set
Movie • 2012
Self
The Wilde Wedding
Movie • 2017
Laurence
I Love You, Daddy
Movie • 2017
Leslie Goodwin
Bird Box
Movie • 2018
Douglas
Bullet Head
Movie • 2017
Walker
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
Movie • 1997
Self
La Traversée du désir
Movie • 2009
Self
Mile 22
Movie • 2018
Bishop
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Movie • 2019
Judge Edward D. Cowart
Casanova Gene
Movie • 2018
Velvet Buzzsaw
Movie • 2019
Piers
Jack Unterweger - The Charming Serial Killer
Movie • 2014
The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer
Movie • 2010
Jack Unterweger
Ava
Movie • 2020
Duke
Fool's Paradise
Movie • 2023
Ed Cote
Arkansas
Movie • 2020
Bright
The Dancer Upstairs
Movie • 2002
Abimael Guzman (uncredited)
100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story
Movie • 2011
Self
Side by Side
Movie • 2012
Self
The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
Movie • 1987
Self
A Winter's Journey
Movie
Leiermann
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
Movie • 1990
Self
Decade
Movie • 1989
Self
Savage Salvation
Movie • 2022
Peter
A Wedding
Movie • 1978
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
The Survivalist
Movie • 2021
Aaron Ramsey
The Music Critic
Movie • 2018
The Narrator
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
Movie • 1986
Self / Biff
Chariot
Movie • 2022
Dr. Karn
Rogue Hostage
Movie • 2021
Sam Nelson
Just Call Me God
Movie • 2017
Satur Diman Cha
The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation Search and Rescue
Movie • 2014
Dave / Dr. Octavius Brine (voice)
Shattered
Movie • 2022
Ronald
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'
Movie • 2005
Self
Safe Sets - Dying to Work in the Film Industry
Movie • 2024
self
Sacrifice
Movie • 2026
Gunnar
A Journey to Sundance
Movie • 2023
Self
A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf
Movie
Unferth
Wild Horse Nine
Movie • 2026
Chris
Breaking Rachmaninoff
Movie • 2023
Annie Lennox: Totally Diva
Movie • 1992
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
Movie • 2007
The Life of Mirrors
Movie • 2025
100 Years
Movie
Finding the Burn
Movie • 2008
Self / Osborne Cox (archive footage)
Welcome Back, George
Movie • 2008
Self
Say Goodnight, Gracie
Movie • 1983
Steve
8 Husbands
Movie
George Ambrose
"American Arts & Culture" Presents John Horatio Malkovich: "Dance of Despair and Disillusionment"
Movie
Self
The Daily Show
TV • 1996
Self
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
TV • 2001
Self - Guest
Napoleon
TV • 2002
Charles de Talleyrand
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV • 1993
Self - Guest
The Jonathan Ross Show
TV • 2011
Self
De Wereld Draait Door
TV • 2005
Self
Les Misérables
TV • 2000
Javert
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
TV • 2005
Self
Crossbones
TV • 2014
Blackbeard
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Host
American Masters
TV • 1986
Self
Zona+
TV • 1994
Próprio
Ten Year Old Tom
TV • 2021
Mr. B (voice)
Wetten, dass..?
TV • 1981
Self
Projectorparishilton
TV • 2008
The Graham Norton Show
TV • 2007
Self
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
TV • 2020
The Impressive Clergyman
The New Look
TV • 2024
Lucien Lelong
The ABC Murders
TV • 2018
Hercule Poirot
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014
Self
Romy Award
TV • 1990
Presenter
The New Pope
TV • 2020
Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox
RIPLEY
TV • 2024
Reeves Minot
Space Force
TV • 2020
Dr. Adrian Mallory
Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona
TV • 2019
Self - Narrator (voice)
American Playhouse
TV • 1982
Lee
Performance
TV • 1991
Deeley
American Playhouse
TV • 1982
Ben Stark
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
TV • 2002
Self
Unsinkable
TV • 2024
Chief Engineer Pollard
Billions
TV • 2016
Grigor Andolov
Lubach
TV • 2025
On n'est pas couché
TV • 2006
Self - Guest
Bishop
TV
Lincoln Graves
Late Night with David Letterman
TV • 1982
Self - Guest