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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 9, 1953
Place of Birth
Christopher, Illinois, USA
Also Known As
- جون مالكوفيتش
- 존 말코비치
- ジョン・マルコヴィッチ
- 約翰·馬克維奇
- จอห์น มัลโควิช
- John Gavin Malkovich
- جان مالکوویچ
John Malkovich
4.4 Popularity
Biography
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).
Known For
0.0
Gunnar
Sacrifice
2026
8.0
Sergiu Celibidache
The Yellow Tie
2025
5.1
Joe Black
In the Hand of Dante
2025
0.0
The Life of Mirrors
2025
5.2
Lubach
2025
5.7
Alfred Moretti
Opus
2025
0.0
self
Safe Sets - Dying to Work in the Film Industry
2024
5.8
Beach Miller
The Line
2024
10.0
Chief Engineer Pollard
Unsinkable
2024
8.0
Reeves Minot
RIPLEY
2024
Credits
Sacrifice
as Gunnar
2026
0.0
The Yellow Tie
as Sergiu Celibidache
2025
8.0
In the Hand of Dante
as Joe Black
2025
5.1
The Life of Mirrors
2025
0.0
Lubach
2025
5.2
Opus
as Alfred Moretti
2025
5.7
Safe Sets - Dying to Work in the Film Industry
as self
2024
0.0
The Line
as Beach Miller
2024
5.8
Unsinkable
as Chief Engineer Pollard
2024
10.0
RIPLEY
as Reeves Minot
2024
8.0
The New Look
as Lucien Lelong
2024
7.5
Mr. Blake at Your Service!
as Andrew Blake
2023
6.4
Fool's Paradise
as Ed Cote
2023
4.7
One Ranger
as Geddes
2023
6.1
Breaking Rachmaninoff
2023
0.0
Seneca
as Seneca
2023
4.9
A Journey to Sundance
as Self
2023
0.0
Mindcage
as The Artist
2022
5.9
Savage Salvation
as Peter
2022
6.2
White Elephant
as Glen Follett
2022
5.8
Chariot
as Dr. Karn
2022
4.6
Shattered
as Ronald
2022
5.8
The Survivalist
as Aaron Ramsey
2021
4.4
Ten Year Old Tom
as Mr. B (voice)
2021
6.8
Rogue Hostage
as Sam Nelson
2021
5.6
Last Call
as Dr. Felton
2020
4.1
Valley of the Gods
as Wes Tauros
2020
5.1
Ava
as Duke
2020
5.8
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
as The Impressive Clergyman
2020
7.5
Space Force
as Dr. Adrian Mallory
2020
6.5
Arkansas
as Bright
2020
5.8
The New Pope
as Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox
2020
7.6
Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2019
7.7
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
as Judge Edward D. Cowart
2019
7.0
Velvet Buzzsaw
as Piers
2019
5.4
The ABC Murders
as Hercule Poirot
2018
6.5
Bird Box
as Douglas
2018
6.8
The Music Critic
as The Narrator
2018
4.5
Mile 22
as Bishop
2018
6.2
Supercon
as Sid Newberry
2018
4.6
Casanova Gene
2018
1.0
Bullet Head
as Walker
2017
5.0
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
as Port (archive footage)
2017
7.3
The Wilde Wedding
as Laurence
2017
5.1
I Love You, Daddy
as Leslie Goodwin
2017
5.7
About Love. Adults Only
as лектор Эд
2017
5.5
Just Call Me God
as Satur Diman Cha
2017
6.0
Unlocked
as Bob Hunter
2017
6.2
Deepwater Horizon
as Donald Vidrine
2016
6.9
Psychogenic Fugue
as All characters
2016
8.0
Zoolander 2
as Chazz Spencer
2016
4.9
Billions
as Grigor Andolov
2016
7.8
Penguins of Madagascar
as Dave (voice)
2014
6.5
Cut Bank
as Sheriff Vogel
2014
5.8
Casanova Variations
as Giacomo
2014
5.3
The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation Search and Rescue
as Dave / Dr. Octavius Brine (voice)
2014
6.3
Jack Unterweger - The Charming Serial Killer
2014
8.0
Crossbones
as Blackbeard
2014
6.1
Noseland
as Self
2014
5.0
Cesar Chavez
as Bogdanovitch
2014
6.2
🎬
Le paradoxe de John Malkovich
as Himself
2014
0.0
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
5.3
RED 2
as Marvin Boggs
2013
6.5
Ecstasy
as Vinny
2013
7.0
Siberian Education
as Grandfather Kuzya
2013
6.8
Warm Bodies
as Colonel Grigio
2013
6.5
Lines of Wellington
as General Wellington
2012
5.7
Side by Side
as Self
2012
7.3
Drunkboat
as Mort
2012
4.6
All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set
as Self
2012
0.0
The Jonathan Ross Show
as Self
2011
5.3
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
as Bruce Brazos
2011
6.2
100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story
as Self
2011
9.0
RED
as Marvin Boggs
2010
6.7
Secretariat
as Lucien Laurin
2010
7.4
Jonah Hex
as Turnbull
2010
5.0
The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer
as Jack Unterweger
2010
4.0
Saturday Night
as Self
2010
8.0
SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas
as (archive footage)
2009
7.4
La Traversée du désir
as Self
2009
5.7
🎬
Finding the Burn
as Self / Osborne Cox (archive footage)
2008
0.0
🎬
Welcome Back, George
as Self
2008
0.0
Gardens of the Night
as Michael
2008
6.2
Changeling
as Rev. Gustav Briegleb
2008
7.6
Afterwards
as Joseph Kay
2008
5.5
🎬
Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies
as Narrator
2008
6.5
🎬
Music at the Sea
as Self
2008
0.0
Disgrace
as David Lurie
2008
6.2
Burn After Reading
as Osborne Cox
2008
6.7
Mutant Chronicles
as Constantine
2008
5.3
Projectorparishilton
2008
5.7
In Tranzit
as Pavlov
2008
5.5
The Great Buck Howard
as Buck Howard
2008
6.0
Beowulf
as Unferth
2007
5.9
🎬
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
2007
0.0
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
7.2
Eragon
as King Galbatorix
2006
5.1
On n'est pas couché
as Self - Guest
2006
4.6
Art School Confidential
as Professor Sandiford
2006
6.1
Klimt
as Gustav Klimt
2006
5.1
🎬
The Call
as Exorcist
2006
4.7
De Wereld Draait Door
as Self
2005
4.9
Colour Me Kubrick
as Alan Conway
2005
5.7
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'
as Self
2005
0.0
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
as Humma Kavula
2005
6.7
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
as Self
2005
6.7
The Libertine
as Charles II
2004
5.9
A Talking Picture
as Comandante John Walesa
2003
6.6
Johnny English
as Pascal Sauvage
2003
6.3
Adaptation.
as John Malkovich (uncredited)
2002
7.3
Napoleon
as Charles de Talleyrand
2002
6.8
The Dancer Upstairs
as Abimael Guzman (uncredited)
2002
6.1
Ripley's Game
as Tom Ripley
2002
6.4
🎬
Hideous Man
as Narrator
2002
1.0
🎬
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
as Self
2002
0.0
Knockaround Guys
as Teddy Deserve
2001
6.0
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
as Self - Guest
2001
6.0
Hotel
as Omar Jonnson
2001
3.2
Savage Souls
as Monsieur Numance
2001
4.9
I’m Going Home
as John Crawford
2001
6.7
Les Misérables
as Javert
2000
6.9
Shadow of the Vampire
as F. W. Murnau
2000
6.7
RKO 281
as Herman Mankiewicz
2000
6.4
Ladies Room
as Roberto
1999
3.5
Being John Malkovich
as John Horatio Malkovich
1999
7.4
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
as Charles VII
1999
6.4
Time Regained
as Baron de Charlus
1999
6.2
Rounders
as Teddy KGB
1998
7.0
The Man in the Iron Mask
as Athos
1998
6.6
Con Air
as Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom
1997
6.8
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
as Self
1997
7.5
The Portrait of a Lady
as Gilbert Osmond
1996
6.0
The Ogre
as Abel
1996
6.3
The Daily Show
as Self
1996
6.4
Cannes Man
as Self
1996
5.2
Mulholland Falls
as General Thomas Timms
1996
6.0
Mary Reilly
as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde
1996
5.8
Beyond the Clouds
as The Director
1995
6.1
The Convent
as Michael
1995
5.2
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
as Self (uncredited)
1995
0.0
Zona+
as Próprio
1994
0.0
Heart of Darkness
as Kurtz
1993
5.7
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1993
7.2
In the Line of Fire
as Mitch Leary
1993
7.0
Alive
as Carlitos Páez / Narrator (uncredited)
1993
6.9
Jennifer Eight
as Agent St. Anne
1992
6.1
Of Mice and Men
as Lennie Small
1992
7.2
Annie Lennox: Totally Diva
1992
9.5
Shadows and Fog
as Clown
1991
6.7
Old Times
1991
4.0
Performance
as Deeley
1991
6.0
The Object of Beauty
as Jake Bartholomew
1991
5.3
Queens Logic
as Eliot
1991
5.8
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
as Self
1990
0.0
The Sheltering Sky
as Port
1990
6.5
🎬
Romy Award
as Presenter
1990
9.0
Decade
as Self
1989
7.0
Dangerous Liaisons
as Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont
1988
7.2
Miles from Home
as Barry Maxwell
1988
5.3
The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
as Self
1987
6.3
Empire of the Sun
as Basie
1987
7.5
🎬
Santabear's High Flying Adventure
as Santa Claus (voice)
1987
6.0
The Glass Menagerie
as Tom Wingfield
1987
6.2
Making Mr. Right
as Jeff Peters / Ulysses
1987
5.0
American Masters
as Self
1986
7.4
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
as Self / Biff
1986
0.0
Rocket to the Moon
as Ben Stark
1986
0.0
Eleni
as Nicholas 'Nick' Gage
1985
5.9
Death of a Salesman
as Biff Loman
1985
6.9
The Killing Fields
as Al Rockoff
1984
7.5
Places in the Heart
as Mr. Will
1984
7.2
True West
as Lee
1984
7.9
Say Goodnight, Gracie
as Steve
1983
0.0
American Playhouse
as Lee
1982
6.2
American Playhouse
as Ben Stark
1982
6.2
American Dream
1981
0.0
Wetten, dass..?
as Self
1981
5.3
Word of Honor
as Gary
1981
6.0
A Wedding
as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
1978
6.2
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
7.0
100 Years
N/A
0.0
Wild Horse Nine
as Chris
N/A
0.0
8 Husbands
as George Ambrose
N/A
0.0
Thelma
as Walker Percy
N/A
0.0
Lost and Found in Paris
as Wim Waldemar
N/A
1.0
Dream Walkers
N/A
0.0
🎬
A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf
as Unferth
N/A
0.0
A Winter's Journey
as Leiermann
N/A
0.0