Actor
John Malkovich
153 movies as actor · 4 as director
Born Dec 9, 1953 (age 72)From Christopher, Illinois, USAAlso known as John Gavin 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 (20…
Known for
Bird Box
2018 · Horror, Thriller
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2011 · Action, Sci-Fi
RED
2010 · Action, Adventure
Warm Bodies
2013 · Horror, Comedy
Burn After Reading
2008 · Comedy, Drama
Deepwater Horizon
2016 · Drama, Action
Being John Malkovich
1999 · Comedy, Drama
Con Air
1997 · Action, Thriller
Changeling
2008 · Crime, Drama
Penguins of Madagascar
2014 · Family, Animation
RED 2
2013 · Action, Adventure
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005 · Adventure, Comedy
John Malkovich movies
Lost and Found in Paris
Wim Waldemar
A Winter's Journey
Leiermann
A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf
A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf
Unferth
100 Years
2099 · Hero (Male)
Wild Horse Nine
2026 · Chris
In the Hand of Dante
2026 · Joe Black
Being Related to John Malkovich
2026 · Self
Sacrifice
2026 · Gunnar
The Yellow Tie
2025 · Sergiu Celibidache
The Life of Mirrors
2025
Opus
2025 · Alfred Moretti
Safe Sets: Dying to Work in the Film Industry
2024 · self
The Line
2024 · Beach Miller
Mr. Blake at Your Service!
2023 · Andrew Blake
Fool's Paradise
2023 · Ed Cote
One Ranger
2023 · Geddes
Breaking Rachmaninoff
2023
Seneca
2023 · Seneca
A Journey to Sundance
2023 · Self
Mindcage
2022 · The Artist
Savage Salvation
2022 · Peter
White Elephant
2022 · Glen Follett
Chariot
2022 · Dr. Karn
Shattered
2022 · Ronald
The Survivalist
2021 · Aaron Ramsey
Rogue Hostage
2021 · Sam Nelson
Last Call
2020 · Dr. Felton
Valley of the Gods
2020 · Wes Tauros
Ava
2020 · Duke
Arkansas
2020 · Bright
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
2019 · Judge Edward D. Cowart
Velvet Buzzsaw
2019 · Piers
Bird Box
2018 · Douglas
The Music Critic
2018 · The Narrator
Mile 22
2018 · Bishop
Supercon
2018 · Sid Newberry
Casanova Gene
2018
Bullet Head
2017 · Walker
Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA
2017 · Port (archive footage)
The Wilde Wedding
2017 · Laurence
I Love You, Daddy
2017 · Leslie Goodwin
About Love. Adults Only
2017 · Ed
Just Call Me God
2017 · Satur Diman Cha
Unlocked
2017 · Bob Hunter
Deepwater Horizon
2016 · Donald Vidrine
Psychogenic Fugue
2016 · All characters
Zoolander 2
2016 · Chazz Spencer
Penguins of Madagascar
2014 · Dave (voice)
Cut Bank
2014 · Sheriff Vogel
Casanova Variations
2014 · Giacomo
The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover
2014 · Dave / Dr. Octavius Brine (voice)
Jack Unterweger - The Charming Serial Killer
2014
Noseland
2014 · Self
Cesar Chavez
2014 · Bogdanovitch
Le paradoxe de John Malkovich
Le paradoxe de John Malkovich
2014 · Himself
RED 2
2013 · Marvin Boggs
Ecstasy
2013 · Vinny
Siberian Education
2013 · Grandfather Kuzya
Warm Bodies
2013 · Colonel Grigio
Lines of Wellington
2012 · General Wellington
Side by Side
2012 · Self
Drunkboat
2012 · Mort
All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set
2012 · Self
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2011 · Bruce Brazos
Butterflies
Butterflies
2011 · Man
100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story
2011 · Self
RED
2010 · Marvin Boggs
Secretariat
2010 · Lucien Laurin
Jonah Hex
2010 · Turnbull
The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer
2010 · Jack Unterweger
Saturday Night
2010 · Self
SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas
2009 · (archive footage)
La Traversée du désir
2009 · Self
Finding the Burn
Finding the Burn
2008 · Self / Osborne Cox (archive footage)
Welcome Back, George
Welcome Back, George
2008 · Self
Gardens of the Night
2008 · Michael
Changeling
2008 · Rev. Gustav Briegleb
Afterwards
2008 · Joseph Kay
Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies
Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies
2008 · Narrator
Music at the Sea
Music at the Sea
2008 · Self
Disgrace
2008 · David Lurie
Burn After Reading
2008 · Osborne Cox
Mutant Chronicles
2008 · Constantine
In Tranzit
2008 · Pavlov
The Great Buck Howard
2008 · Buck Howard
Beowulf
2007 · Unferth (Voice)
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Per
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
2007
Eragon
2006 · King Galbatorix
Art School Confidential
2006 · Professor Sandiford
Klimt
2006 · Gustav Klimt
Colour Me Kubrick
2005 · Alan Conway
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'
2005 · Self
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005 · Humma Kavula
The Libertine
2004 · Charles II
A Talking Picture
2003 · Comandante John Walesa
Johnny English
2003 · Pascal Sauvage
Adaptation.
2002 · John Malkovich (uncredited)
The Dancer Upstairs
2002 · Abimael Guzman (uncredited)
Ripley's Game
2002 · Tom Ripley
Hideous Man
2002 · Narrator
Knockaround Guys
2001 · Teddy Deserve
Hotel
2001 · Omar Jonnson
Savage Souls
2001 · Monsieur Numance
I’m Going Home
2001 · John Crawford
Shadow of the Vampire
2000 · F. W. Murnau
Ladies Room
1999 · Roberto
RKO 281
1999 · Herman Mankiewicz
Being John Malkovich
1999 · John Horatio Malkovich
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
1999 · Charles VII
Time Regained
1999 · Baron de Charlus
Rounders
1998 · Teddy KGB
The Man in the Iron Mask
1998 · Athos
Con Air
1997 · Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
1997 · Self
The Portrait of a Lady
1996 · Gilbert Osmond
The Ogre
1996 · Abel
Cannes Man
1996 · Self
Mulholland Falls
1996 · General Thomas Timms
Mary Reilly
1996 · Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde
Beyond the Clouds
1995 · The Director
The Convent
1995 · Michael
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
1995 · Self (uncredited)
Heart of Darkness
1994 · Kurtz
In the Line of Fire
1993 · Mitch Leary
Alive
1993 · Carlitos Páez / Narrator (uncredited)
Jennifer Eight
1992 · Agent St. Anne
Of Mice and Men
1992 · Lennie Small
Annie Lennox: Totally Diva
1992
Shadows and Fog
1991 · Clown
Old Times
1991
The Object of Beauty
1991 · Jake Bartholomew
Queens Logic
1991 · Eliot
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
1990 · Self
The Sheltering Sky
1990 · Port
Decade
1989 · Self
Dangerous Liaisons
1988 · Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont
Miles from Home
1988 · Barry Maxwell
The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
1987 · Self
Empire of the Sun
1987 · Basie
Santabear's High Flying Adventure
Santabear's High Flying Adventure
1987 · Santa Claus (voice)
The Glass Menagerie
1987 · Tom Wingfield
Making Mr. Right
1987 · Jeff Peters / Ulysses
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
1986 · Self / Biff
Rocket to the Moon
1986 · Ben Stark
Eleni
1985 · Nicholas 'Nick' Gage
Death of a Salesman
1985 · Biff Loman
The Killing Fields
1984 · Al Rockoff
Places in the Heart
1984 · Mr. Will
True West
1984 · Lee
Say Goodnight, Gracie
1983 · Steve
American Dream
1981
Word of Honor
1981 · Gary
A Wedding
1978 · Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Directed by John Malkovich
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