John Malkovich
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Biography
John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an American actor. He is the recipient of several accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, in addition to 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 Award 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 in Crossbones (2014), Billions (2018–19), The New Pope (2020), and Space Force (2020–2022).
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Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Daily Show
The Graham Norton Show
Saturday Night Live
RIPLEY
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The Jonathan Ross Show
Alive
Fool's Paradise
Zoolander 2
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Velvet Buzzsaw
Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
Jennifer Eight
Ten Year Old Tom
Rounders
Penguins of Madagascar
Shattered
Eragon
The Man in the Iron Mask
Beowulf
The New Look
Arkansas
Johnny English
Unlocked
Warm Bodies
Savage Salvation
White Elephant
Deepwater Horizon
Napoleon
Bird Box
One Ranger
Places in the Heart
Con Air
In Tranzit
Dangerous Liaisons
Secretariat
Ava
Space Force
RED
RED 2
The New Pope
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Rogue Hostage
In the Line of Fire
Jonah Hex
The ABC Murders
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Call
Shadow of the Vampire
Of Mice and Men
Crossbones
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