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John Malkovich
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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 BA…
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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).
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2026
Wild Horse Nine
Movie Chris
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2026
In the Hand of Dante
Movie Joe Black
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2026
Being Related to John Malkovich
Movie Self
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2026
Sacrifice
Movie Gunnar
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2025
The Yellow Tie
Movie Sergiu Celibidache
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2025
The Life of Mirrors
Movie
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2025
Lubach
TV show
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2025
Opus
Movie Alfred Moretti
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2024
The Line
Movie Beach Miller
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2024
Bad Monkey
TV show Spencer
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2024
Unsinkable
TV show Chief Engineer Pollard
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2024
RIPLEY
TV show Reeves Minot
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2024
The New Look
TV show Lucien Lelong
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2023
Mr. Blake at Your Service!
Movie Andrew Blake
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2023
Fool's Paradise
Movie Ed Cote
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2023
One Ranger
Movie Geddes
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2023
Breaking Rachmaninoff
Movie
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2023
Seneca
Movie Seneca
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2023
A Journey to Sundance
Movie Self
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2022
Mindcage
Movie The Artist
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2022
Savage Salvation
Movie Peter
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2022
White Elephant
Movie Glen Follett
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2022
Chariot
Movie Dr. Karn
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2022
Shattered
Movie Ronald
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2021
The Survivalist
Movie Aaron Ramsey
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2021
Ten Year Old Tom
TV show Mr. B (voice)
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2021
Rogue Hostage
Movie Sam Nelson
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2020
Last Call
Movie Dr. Felton
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2020
Valley of the Gods
Movie Wes Tauros
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2020
Ava
Movie Duke
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2020
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
TV show The Impressive Clergyman
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2020
Space Force
TV show Dr. Adrian Mallory
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2020
Arkansas
Movie Bright
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2020
The New Pope
TV show Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox
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2019
Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona
TV show Self - Narrator (voice)
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2019
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Movie Judge Edward D. Cowart
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2019
Gotta Get Down to It
Movie Sound Mixer
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2019
Velvet Buzzsaw
Movie Piers
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2018
The ABC Murders
TV show Hercule Poirot
