John Malkovich

ActorProducerSoundDirectorWriter Dec 9 (age 72) Christopher, Illinois, USA 1975–2026 (51 year career)

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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 …

Known For

Film

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Producer

Film

Changeling

Rev. Gustav Briegleb

Film

Bird Box

Douglas

Film

Juno

Producer

Film

Being John Malkovich

John Horatio Malkovich

Film

RED

Marvin Boggs

Film

Deepwater Horizon

Donald Vidrine

Film

Adaptation.

John Malkovich (uncredited)

Filmography

Acting (189)

Movies (153)

Wild Horse Nine

2026 Upcoming

as Chris

Nov 5

Sacrifice

2026 Upcoming

as Gunnar

Aug 20

Opus

2025

as Alfred Moretti

5.8

The Yellow Tie

2025

as Sergiu Celibidache

In the Hand of Dante

as Joe Black

The Life of Mirrors

The Line

as Beach Miller

Safe Sets - Dying to Work in the Film Industry

2024

as self

Fool's Paradise

as Ed Cote

One Ranger

as Geddes

Mr. Blake at Your Service!

2023

as Andrew Blake

6.4

Breaking Rachmaninoff

2023

Seneca

2023

as Seneca

5.0

A Journey to Sundance

2023

as Self

Shattered

as Ronald

White Elephant

as Glen Follett

Mindcage

as The Artist

Chariot

as Dr. Karn

Savage Salvation

as Peter

The Survivalist

as Aaron Ramsey

Rogue Hostage

as Sam Nelson

Valley of the Gods

as Wes Tauros

Ava

as Duke

Arkansas

as Bright

Last Call

as Dr. Felton

Velvet Buzzsaw

as Piers

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

2019

as Judge Edward D. Cowart

Bird Box

as Douglas

Supercon

as Sid Newberry

Mile 22

as Bishop

Casanova Gene

The Music Critic

as The Narrator

Unlocked

as Bob Hunter

About Love. Adults Only

as лектор Эд

I Love You, Daddy

as Leslie Goodwin

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda

2017

as Port (archive footage)

The Wilde Wedding

as Laurence

Bullet Head

as Walker

Just Call Me God

as Satur Diman Cha

Zoolander 2

as Chazz Spencer

Deepwater Horizon

as Donald Vidrine

Psychogenic Fugue

as All characters

Penguins of Madagascar

2014

as Dave (voice)

6.5

Jack Unterweger - The Charming Serial Killer

Cut Bank

as Sheriff Vogel

Cesar Chavez

as Bogdanovitch

Le paradoxe de John Malkovich

2014

as Himself

Noseland

2014

as Self

5.0

The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation Search and Rescue

2014

as Dave / Dr. Octavius Brine (voice)

Casanova Variations

as Giacomo

RED 2

as Marvin Boggs

Warm Bodies

as Colonel Grigio

Siberian Education

as Grandfather Kuzya

Ecstasy

as Vinny

Side by Side

as Self

All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set

2012

as Self

Drunkboat

2012

as Mort

4.6

Lines of Wellington

2012

as General Wellington

5.7

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

2011

as Bruce Brazos

6.2

100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story

as Self

RED

as Marvin Boggs

Jonah Hex

as Turnbull

Secretariat

as Lucien Laurin

Saturday Night

as Self

The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer

2010

as Jack Unterweger

4.0

La Traversée du désir

2009

as Self

5.7

SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas

2009

as (archive footage)

7.4

Changeling

2008

as Rev. Gustav Briegleb

Burn After Reading

as Osborne Cox

Afterwards

as Joseph Kay

Mutant Chronicles

as Constantine

In Tranzit

as Pavlov

Gardens of the Night

as Michael

Disgrace

as David Lurie

Music at the Sea

as Self

The Great Buck Howard

2008

as Buck Howard

6.0

Finding the Burn

2008

as Self / Osborne Cox (archive footage)

Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies

2008

as Narrator

6.5

Welcome Back, George

2008

as Self

Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place

Beowulf

as Unferth

Klimt

as Gustav Klimt

Eragon

as King Galbatorix

Art School Confidential

2006

as Professor Sandiford

6.1

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

as Humma Kavula

Colour Me Kubrick

as Alan Conway

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'

2005

as Self

The Libertine

as Charles II

Johnny English

as Pascal Sauvage

A Talking Picture

as Comandante John Walesa

6.6

Adaptation.

2002

as John Malkovich (uncredited)

Ripley's Game

as Tom Ripley

Hideous Man

as Narrator

The Dancer Upstairs

as Abimael Guzman (uncredited)

Knockaround Guys

as Teddy Deserve

Hotel

as Omar Jonnson

Savage Souls

as Monsieur Numance

I’m Going Home

as John Crawford

Shadow of the Vampire

2000

as F. W. Murnau

6.6

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

1999

as Charles VII

6.4

Being John Malkovich

1999

as John Horatio Malkovich

Ladies Room

as Roberto

RKO 281

as Herman Mankiewicz

Time Regained

as Baron de Charlus

Rounders

as Teddy KGB

The Man in the Iron Mask

1998

as Athos

6.6

Con Air

1997

as Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom

6.8

Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady

1997

as Self

7.5

Mulholland Falls

1996

as General Thomas Timms

6.0

Mary Reilly

1996

as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde

5.8

The Portrait of a Lady

as Gilbert Osmond

Cannes Man

as Self

The Ogre

as Abel

Beyond the Clouds

as The Director

The Convent

as Michael

To Make a Film Is to Be Alive

1995

as Self (uncredited)

Alive

1993

as Carlitos Páez / Narrator (uncredited)

In the Line of Fire

as Mitch Leary

Heart of Darkness

as Kurtz

Of Mice and Men

as Lennie Small

Jennifer Eight

as Agent St. Anne

Annie Lennox: Totally Diva

Shadows and Fog

as Clown

Queens Logic

as Eliot

Old Times

The Object of Beauty

as Jake Bartholomew

The Sheltering Sky

as Port

Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter

1990

as Self

Decade

1989

as Self

7.0

Dangerous Liaisons

1988

as Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont

Miles from Home

as Barry Maxwell

Empire of the Sun

as Basie

Santabear's High Flying Adventure

1987

as Santa Claus (voice)

6.0

Making Mr. Right

1987

as Jeff Peters / Ulysses

5.0

The Glass Menagerie

1987

as Tom Wingfield

6.2

The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun

1987

as Self

6.3

Rocket to the Moon

1986

as Ben Stark

Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’

1986

as Self / Biff

Death of a Salesman

1985

as Biff Loman

6.9

Eleni

1985

as Nicholas 'Nick' Gage

The Killing Fields

as Al Rockoff

Places in the Heart

as Mr. Will

True West

as Lee

Say Goodnight, Gracie

1983

as Steve

American Dream

Word of Honor

as Gary

A Wedding

as Wedding Guest (uncredited)

6.2

Thelma

as Walker Percy

100 Years

"American Arts & Culture" Presents John Horatio Malkovich: "Dance of Despair and Disillusionment"

as Self

Lost and Found in Paris

as Wim Waldemar

1.0

A Winter's Journey

as Leiermann

A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf

as Unferth

Television (36)

The Ian and Smurfette Show

2026

as Dave (voice)

10.0

The Ian and Smurfette Show

as Dave (voice)

Lubach

RIPLEY

as Reeves Minot

The New Look

as Lucien Lelong

Unsinkable

as Chief Engineer Pollard

Ten Year Old Tom

as Mr. B (voice)

Space Force

as Dr. Adrian Mallory

6.5

The New Pope

2020

as Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox

7.6

Home Movie: The Princess Bride

2020

as The Impressive Clergyman

7.5

Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona

2019

as Self - Narrator (voice)

The ABC Murders

as Hercule Poirot

Billions

as Grigor Andolov

Late Night with Seth Meyers

as Self

Crossbones

as Blackbeard

The Jonathan Ross Show

as Self

Projectorparishilton

The Graham Norton Show

as Self

On n'est pas couché

as Self - Guest

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

2005

as Self

6.7

De Wereld Draait Door

2005

as Self

5.1

Napoleon

2002

as Charles de Talleyrand

6.8

Gero von Boehm begegnet...

2002

as Self

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

as Self - Guest

Les Misérables

as Javert

The Daily Show

as Self

Zona+

as Próprio

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

as Self - Guest

Performance

as Deeley

Romy Award

as Presenter

American Masters

as Self

Late Night with David Letterman

as Self - Guest

American Playhouse

as Lee

Wetten, dass..?

as Self

Saturday Night Live

as Self - Host

Bishop

as Lincoln Graves

Crew (24)

Movies (24)

Shattered

Producer

Last Call

Producer

Gotta Get Down to It

Sound Mixer

The Wilde Wedding

Executive Producer

Demolition

Producer

Strap Hanging

Director

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Producer

Young Adult

Executive Producer

Which Way Home

Executive Producer

Snow Angel

Writer

Juno

2007

Producer

7.1

Art School Confidential

Producer

The Libertine

Producer

Kill the Poor

Producer

Hideous Man

Director

Hideous Man

Writer

The Dancer Upstairs

Director

The Dancer Upstairs

Producer

Ghost World

Producer

Lady Behave

Director

Lady Behave

2000

Writer

The Accidental Tourist

1988

Executive Producer

6.3

100 Years

Producer

100 Years

Writer