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John Malkovich

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72 Years Old

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).

Born

Christopher, Illinois, USA on 9th December 1953

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The Daily Show
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The Graham Norton Show
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The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
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Billions
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Late Night with Conan O'Brien
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Space Force
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The Jonathan Ross Show
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Penguins of Madagascar
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Con Air
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White Elephant
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The New Pope
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Adaptation.
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Rounders
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Napoleon
Charles de Talleyrand
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Secretariat
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Being John Malkovich
John Horatio Malkovich
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The Ogre
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Carlitos Páez / Narrator (uncredited)
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Ripley's Game
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In the Line of Fire
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About Love. Adults Only
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Beowulf
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The Dancer Upstairs
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Places in the Heart
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Changeling
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Empire of the Sun
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In Tranzit
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon
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Savage Souls
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Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
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The Killing Fields
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Colour Me Kubrick
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Of Mice and Men
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Afterwards
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Shadow of the Vampire
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RKO 281
Herman Mankiewicz
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In the Hand of Dante
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Disgrace
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Rogue Hostage
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Death of a Salesman
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All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set
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100 Years
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Saturday Night
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I Love You, Daddy
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Cut Bank
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Fool's Paradise
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Just Call Me God
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Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona
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The Object of Beauty
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Casanova Variations
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Seneca
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Rocket to the Moon
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Making Mr. Right
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Miles from Home
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A Journey to Sundance
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Decade
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Cannes Man
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The Glass Menagerie
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I’m Going Home
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Drunkboat
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8 Husbands
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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'
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Lost and Found in Paris
Wim Waldemar
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Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
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The Music Critic
The Narrator
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Le paradoxe de John Malkovich
Himself
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La Traversée du désir
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SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas
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Santabear's High Flying Adventure
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Finding the Burn
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Annie Lennox: Totally Diva
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The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
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The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer
Jack Unterweger
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Last Call
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A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf
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Jack Unterweger - The Charming Serial Killer
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Psychogenic Fugue
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The Life of Mirrors
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Noseland
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Casanova Gene
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Welcome Back, George
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Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies
Narrator
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive Image
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
Self (uncredited)
Ecstasy Image
Ecstasy
Vinny
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Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
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Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’ Image
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
Self / Biff
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"American Arts & Culture" Presents John Horatio Malkovich: "Dance of Despair and Disillusionment"
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100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story Image
100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story
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A Winter's Journey
Leiermann
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Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
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Say Goodnight, Gracie
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Safe Sets - Dying to Work in the Film Industry
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