John Malkovich
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 (186 Appearances)
Sacrifice
Wild Horse Nine
100 Years
A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf
A Winter's Journey
Bishop
Lost and Found in Paris
The Yellow Tie
In the Hand of Dante
The Life of Mirrors
Lubach
Opus
Safe Sets - Dying to Work in the Film Industry
The Line
Unsinkable
RIPLEY
The New Look
Mr. Blake at Your Service!
Fool's Paradise
One Ranger
Breaking Rachmaninoff
Seneca
A Journey to Sundance
Mindcage
Savage Salvation
White Elephant
Chariot
Shattered
The Survivalist
Ten Year Old Tom
Rogue Hostage
Last Call
Valley of the Gods
Ava
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
Space Force
Arkansas
The New Pope
Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Velvet Buzzsaw
The ABC Murders
Bird Box
The Music Critic
Mile 22
Supercon
Casanova Gene
Bullet Head
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
The Wilde Wedding
I Love You, Daddy
About Love. Adults Only
Just Call Me God
Unlocked
Deepwater Horizon
Psychogenic Fugue
Zoolander 2
Billions
Penguins of Madagascar
Cut Bank
Casanova Variations
The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation Search and Rescue
Jack Unterweger - The Charming Serial Killer
Crossbones
Noseland
Cesar Chavez
Le paradoxe de John Malkovich
Late Night with Seth Meyers
RED 2
Ecstasy
Siberian Education
Warm Bodies
Lines of Wellington
Side by Side
Drunkboat
All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set
The Jonathan Ross Show
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Butterflies
100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story
RED
Secretariat
Jonah Hex
The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer
Saturday Night
SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas
La Traversée du désir
Welcome Back, George
Finding the Burn
Gardens of the Night
Changeling
Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies
Afterwards
Music at the Sea
Disgrace
Burn After Reading
Mutant Chronicles
Projectorparishilton
In Tranzit
The Great Buck Howard
Beowulf
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
The Graham Norton Show
Eragon
On n'est pas couché
Art School Confidential
Klimt
De Wereld Draait Door
Colour Me Kubrick
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'
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The Libertine
A Talking Picture
Johnny English
Adaptation.
Napoleon
The Dancer Upstairs
Ripley's Game
Hideous Man
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
Knockaround Guys
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Hotel
Savage Souls
I’m Going Home
Les Misérables
Shadow of the Vampire
Ladies Room
RKO 281
Being John Malkovich
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Time Regained
Rounders
The Man in the Iron Mask
Con Air
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
The Portrait of a Lady
The Ogre
The Daily Show
Cannes Man
Mulholland Falls
Mary Reilly
Beyond the Clouds
The Convent
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
Zona+
Heart of Darkness
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
In the Line of Fire
Alive
Jennifer Eight
Of Mice and Men
Annie Lennox: Totally Diva
Shadows and Fog
Old Times
Performance
The Object of Beauty
Queens Logic
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
The Sheltering Sky
Romy Award
Decade
Dangerous Liaisons
Miles from Home
The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
Empire of the Sun
Santabear's High Flying Adventure
The Glass Menagerie
Making Mr. Right
American Masters
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
Rocket to the Moon
Eleni
Death of a Salesman
The Killing Fields
Places in the Heart
True West
Say Goodnight, Gracie
Late Night with David Letterman
American Playhouse
American Dream
Wetten, dass..?
Word of Honor
A Wedding
Saturday Night Live