John 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 (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: 09 December 1953
Played In
Movie
Nov 2026
Wild Horse Nine
Chris
Movie
Oct 2026
Sacrifice
Gunnar
Movie
Jun 2026
In the Hand of Dante
Joe Black
Movie
Apr 2026
Being Related to John Malkovich
Self
Movie
Nov 2025
The Yellow Tie
Sergiu Celibidache
Movie
Jul 2025
The Life of Mirrors
TV Show
Mar 2025
Lubach
Movie
Mar 2025
Opus
Alfred Moretti
Movie
Oct 2024
Safe Sets: Dying to Work in the Film Industry
self
Movie
Oct 2024
The Line
Beach Miller
TV Show
Jul 2024
Unsinkable
Chief Engineer Pollard
TV Show
Apr 2024
RIPLEY
Reeves Minot
TV Show
Feb 2024
The New Look
Lucien Lelong
Movie
Nov 2023
Mr. Blake at Your Service!
Andrew Blake
Movie
May 2023
Fool's Paradise
Ed Cote
Movie
May 2023
One Ranger
Geddes
Movie
Apr 2023
Breaking Rachmaninoff
Movie
Feb 2023
Seneca
Seneca
Movie
Jan 2023
A Journey to Sundance
Self
Movie
Dec 2022
Mindcage
The Artist
Movie
Dec 2022
Savage Salvation
Peter
Movie
Jun 2022
White Elephant
Glen Follett
Movie
Apr 2022
Chariot
Dr. Karn
Movie
Jan 2022
Shattered
Ronald
Movie
Dec 2021
The Survivalist
Aaron Ramsey
TV Show
Sep 2021
Ten Year Old Tom
Mr. B (voice)
Movie
Jun 2021
Rogue Hostage
Sam Nelson
Movie
Nov 2020
Last Call
Dr. Felton
Movie
Sep 2020
Valley of the Gods
Wes Tauros
Movie
Jul 2020
Ava
Duke
TV Show
Jun 2020
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
The Impressive Clergyman
TV Show
May 2020
Space Force
Dr. Adrian Mallory
Movie
May 2020
Arkansas
Bright
TV Show
Jan 2020
The New Pope
Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox
TV Show
Nov 2019
Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona
Self - Narrator (voice)
Movie
May 2019
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Judge Edward D. Cowart
Movie
Feb 2019
Velvet Buzzsaw
Piers
TV Show
Dec 2018
The ABC Murders
Hercule Poirot
Movie
Dec 2018
Bird Box
Douglas
Movie
Dec 2018
The Music Critic
The Narrator
Movie
Aug 2018
Mile 22
Bishop
Movie
Apr 2018
Supercon
Sid Newberry
Movie
Feb 2018
Casanova Gene
Movie
Dec 2017
Bullet Head
Walker
Movie
Nov 2017
Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA
Port (archive footage)
Movie
Sep 2017
The Wilde Wedding
Laurence
Movie
Sep 2017
I Love You, Daddy
Leslie Goodwin
Movie
Sep 2017
About Love. Adults Only
Ed
Movie
Apr 2017
Just Call Me God
Satur Diman Cha
Movie
Apr 2017
Unlocked
Bob Hunter
Movie
Sep 2016
Deepwater Horizon
Donald Vidrine
Movie
Sep 2016
Psychogenic Fugue
All characters
Movie
Feb 2016
Zoolander 2
Chazz Spencer
TV Show
Jan 2016
Billions
Grigor Andolov
Movie
Nov 2014
Penguins of Madagascar
Dave (voice)
Movie
Oct 2014
Cut Bank
Sheriff Vogel
Movie
Aug 2014
Casanova Variations
Giacomo
Movie
Jul 2014
The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover
Dave / Dr. Octavius Brine (voice)
Movie
Jun 2014
Jack Unterweger - The Charming Serial Killer
TV Show
May 2014
Crossbones
Blackbeard
Movie
May 2014
Noseland
Self
Movie
Mar 2014
Cesar Chavez
Bogdanovitch
Movie
Mar 2014
Le paradoxe de John Malkovich
Himself
TV Show
Feb 2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
Movie
Jul 2013
RED 2
Marvin Boggs
Movie
Jun 2013
Ecstasy
Vinny
Movie
Feb 2013
Siberian Education
Grandfather Kuzya
Movie
Jan 2013
Warm Bodies
Colonel Grigio
Movie
Oct 2012
Lines of Wellington
General Wellington
Movie
Aug 2012
Side by Side
Self
Movie
Jul 2012
Drunkboat
Mort
Movie
May 2012
All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set
Self
TV Show
Sep 2011
The Jonathan Ross Show
Self
Movie
Jun 2011
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Bruce Brazos
Movie
Jun 2011
Butterflies
Man
Movie
Mar 2011
100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story
Self
Movie
Oct 2010
RED
Marvin Boggs
Movie
Aug 2010
Secretariat
Lucien Laurin
Movie
Jun 2010
Jonah Hex
Turnbull
Movie
Jun 2010
The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer
Jack Unterweger
Movie
May 2010
Saturday Night
Self
Movie
Dec 2009
SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas
(archive footage)
Movie
Mar 2009
La Traversée du désir
Self
Movie
Dec 2008
Finding the Burn
Self / Osborne Cox (archive footage)
Movie
Dec 2008
Welcome Back, George
Self
Movie
Nov 2008
Gardens of the Night
Michael
Movie
Oct 2008
Changeling
Rev. Gustav Briegleb
Movie
Oct 2008
Afterwards
Joseph Kay
Movie
Oct 2008
Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies
Narrator
Movie
Sep 2008
Music at the Sea
Self
Movie
Sep 2008
Disgrace
David Lurie
Movie
Sep 2008
Burn After Reading
Osborne Cox
Movie
Aug 2008
Mutant Chronicles
Constantine
TV Show
May 2008
Projectorparishilton
Movie
Mar 2008
In Tranzit
Pavlov
Movie
Jan 2008
The Great Buck Howard
Buck Howard
Movie
Nov 2007
Beowulf
Unferth
Movie
Apr 2007
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
TV Show
Feb 2007
The Graham Norton Show
Self
Movie
Dec 2006
Eragon
King Galbatorix
TV Show
Sep 2006
On n'est pas couché
Self - Guest
Movie
May 2006
Art School Confidential
Professor Sandiford
Movie
Mar 2006
Klimt
Gustav Klimt
TV Show
Oct 2005
De Wereld Draait Door
Self
Movie
Oct 2005
Colour Me Kubrick
Alan Conway
Movie
Sep 2005
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'
Self
Movie
Apr 2005
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Humma Kavula
TV Show
Jan 2005
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Self
Movie
Sep 2004
The Libertine
Charles II
Movie
Aug 2003
A Talking Picture
Comandante John Walesa
Movie
Mar 2003
Johnny English
Pascal Sauvage
Movie
Dec 2002
Adaptation.
John Malkovich (uncredited)
TV Show
Oct 2002
Napoleon
Charles de Talleyrand
Movie
Sep 2002
The Dancer Upstairs
Abimael Guzman (uncredited)
Movie
Sep 2002
Ripley's Game
Tom Ripley
Movie
Aug 2002
Hideous Man
Narrator
TV Show
Apr 2002
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
Self
Movie
Nov 2001
Knockaround Guys
Teddy Deserve
TV Show
Nov 2001
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Self - Guest
Movie
Sep 2001
Hotel
Omar Jonnson
Movie
May 2001
Savage Souls
Monsieur Numance
Movie
May 2001
I’m Going Home
John Crawford
TV Show
Sep 2000
Les Misérables
Javert
Movie
Aug 2000
Shadow of the Vampire
F. W. Murnau
Movie
Nov 1999
Ladies Room
Roberto
Movie
Nov 1999
RKO 281
Herman Mankiewicz
Movie
Oct 1999
Being John Malkovich
John Horatio Malkovich
Movie
Oct 1999
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Charles VII
Movie
May 1999
Time Regained
Baron de Charlus
Movie
Sep 1998
Rounders
Teddy KGB
Movie
Mar 1998
The Man in the Iron Mask
Athos
Movie
Jun 1997
Con Air
Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom
Movie
Jan 1997
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
Self
Movie
Oct 1996
The Portrait of a Lady
Gilbert Osmond
Movie
Sep 1996
The Ogre
Abel
TV Show
Jul 1996
The Daily Show
Self
Movie
Jun 1996
Cannes Man
Self
Movie
Apr 1996
Mulholland Falls
General Thomas Timms
Movie
Feb 1996
Mary Reilly
Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde
Movie
Oct 1995
Beyond the Clouds
The Director
Movie
Sep 1995
The Convent
Michael
Movie
Sep 1995
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
Self (uncredited)
TV Show
Sep 1994
Zona+
Próprio
Movie
Oct 1993
Heart of Darkness
Kurtz
TV Show
Sep 1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
Movie
Jul 1993
In the Line of Fire
Mitch Leary
Movie
Jan 1993
Alive
Carlitos Páez / Narrator (uncredited)
Movie
Nov 1992
Jennifer Eight
Agent St. Anne
Movie
Sep 1992
Of Mice and Men
Lennie Small
Movie
Apr 1992
Annie Lennox: Totally Diva
Movie
Dec 1991
Shadows and Fog
Clown
Movie
Oct 1991
Old Times
TV Show
Oct 1991
Performance
Deeley
Movie
Apr 1991
The Object of Beauty
Jake Bartholomew
Movie
Feb 1991
Queens Logic
Eliot
Movie
Dec 1990
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
Self
Movie
Oct 1990
The Sheltering Sky
Port
TV Show
Jan 1990
Romy Award
Presenter
Movie
Dec 1989
Decade
Self
Movie
Dec 1988
Dangerous Liaisons
Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont
Movie
Sep 1988
Miles from Home
Barry Maxwell
Movie
Dec 1987
The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
Self
Movie
Dec 1987
Empire of the Sun
Basie
Movie
Dec 1987
Santabear's High Flying Adventure
Santa Claus (voice)
Movie
May 1987
The Glass Menagerie
Tom Wingfield
Movie
Apr 1987
Making Mr. Right
Jeff Peters / Ulysses
Movie
Jun 1986
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
Self / Biff
TV Show
Jun 1986
American Masters
Self
Movie
May 1986
Rocket to the Moon
Ben Stark
Movie
Nov 1985
Eleni
Nicholas 'Nick' Gage
Movie
Aug 1985
Death of a Salesman
Biff Loman
Movie
Nov 1984
The Killing Fields
Al Rockoff
Movie
Sep 1984
Places in the Heart
Mr. Will
Movie
Feb 1984
True West
Lee
Movie
Feb 1983
Say Goodnight, Gracie
Steve
TV Show
Feb 1982
Late Night with David Letterman
Self - Guest
TV Show
Jan 1982
American Playhouse
Lee
TV Show
Jan 1982
American Playhouse
Ben Stark
Movie
Apr 1981
American Dream
TV Show
Feb 1981
Wetten, dass..?
Self
Movie
Jan 1981
Word of Honor
Gary
Movie
Aug 1978
A Wedding
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
TV Show
Oct 1975
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
Movie
Lost and Found in Paris
Wim Waldemar
Movie
A Winter's Journey
Leiermann
Movie
A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf
Unferth
TV Show
Bishop
Lincoln Graves