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