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).
147 movies · 33 shows
In the Hand of Dante
2026·5.5
Being Related to John Malkovich
2026·0.0
The Yellow Tie
2025·8.4
The Life of Mirrors
2025·0.0
Opus
2025·5.7
Safe Sets: Dying to Work in the Film Industry
2024·0.0
The Line
2024·5.7
Mr. Blake at Your Service!
2023·6.4
Fool's Paradise
2023·4.6
One Ranger
2023·6.2
Breaking Rachmaninoff
2023·0.0
Seneca
2023·5.0
A Journey to Sundance
2023·0.0
Mindcage
2022·5.9
Savage Salvation
2022·6.1
White Elephant
2022·5.8
Chariot
2022·4.5
Shattered
2022·5.7
The Survivalist
2021·4.5
Rogue Hostage
2021·5.6
Last Call
2020·4.1
Valley of the Gods
2020·5.2
Ava
2020·5.8
Arkansas
2020·5.8
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
2019·7.0
Velvet Buzzsaw
2019·5.4
Bird Box
2018·6.8
The Music Critic
2018·4.5
Mile 22
2018·6.3
Supercon
2018·4.5
Casanova Gene
2018·1.0
Bullet Head
2017·5.0
Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA
2017·7.4
The Wilde Wedding
2017·5.1
I Love You, Daddy
2017·5.7
About Love. Adults Only
2017·5.5
Just Call Me God
2017·6.0
Unlocked
2017·6.3
Deepwater Horizon
2016·6.9
Psychogenic Fugue
2016·8.0
Zoolander 2
2016·4.9
Penguins of Madagascar
2014·6.5
Cut Bank
2014·5.8
Casanova Variations
2014·5.3
The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover
2014·6.3
Jack Unterweger - The Charming Serial Killer
2014·8.0
Noseland
2014·5.0
Cesar Chavez
2014·6.2
Le paradoxe de John Malkovich
2014·0.0
RED 2
2013·6.5
Ecstasy
2013·7.0
Siberian Education
2013·6.8
Warm Bodies
2013·6.5
Lines of Wellington
2012·5.7
Side by Side
2012·7.3
Drunkboat
2012·5.0
All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set
2012·0.0
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2011·6.2
Butterflies
2011·0.0
100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story
2011·9.0
RED
2010·6.7
Secretariat
2010·7.4
Jonah Hex
2010·5.0
The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer
2010·4.0
Saturday Night
2010·7.7
SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas
2009·7.4
La Traversée du désir
2009·5.7
Finding the Burn
2008·0.0
Welcome Back, George
2008·0.0
Gardens of the Night
2008·6.2
Changeling
2008·7.6
Afterwards
2008·5.5
Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies
2008·6.5
Music at the Sea
2008·0.0
Disgrace
2008·6.2
Burn After Reading
2008·6.7
Mutant Chronicles
2008·5.3
In Tranzit
2008·5.5
The Great Buck Howard
2008·6.0
Beowulf
2007·5.9
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
2007·0.0
Eragon
2006·5.1
Art School Confidential
2006·6.1
Klimt
2006·5.2
Colour Me Kubrick
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'
2005·0.0
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005·6.7
The Libertine
2004·5.9
A Talking Picture
2003·6.7
Johnny English
2003·6.3
Adaptation.
2002·7.3
The Dancer Upstairs
2002·6.1
Ripley's Game
2002·6.4
Hideous Man
2002·4.0
Knockaround Guys
2001·6.1
Hotel
2001·3.4
Savage Souls
2001·4.9
I’m Going Home
2001·6.8
Shadow of the Vampire
2000·6.7
Ladies Room
1999·4.0
RKO 281
1999·6.5
Being John Malkovich
1999·7.4
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
1999·6.4
Time Regained
1999·6.3
Rounders
1998·7.0
The Man in the Iron Mask
1998·6.7
Con Air
1997·6.8
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
1997·7.5
The Portrait of a Lady
1996·6.0
The Ogre
1996·6.4
Cannes Man
1996·5.5
Mulholland Falls
1996·6.0
Mary Reilly
1996·5.8
Beyond the Clouds
1995·6.2
The Convent
1995·5.3
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
1995·7.0
Heart of Darkness
1994·5.8
In the Line of Fire
1993·7.0
Alive
1993·6.9
Jennifer Eight
1992·6.1
Of Mice and Men
1992·7.3
Annie Lennox: Totally Diva
1992·9.5
Shadows and Fog
1991·6.7
Old Times
1991·4.6
The Object of Beauty
1991·5.3
Queens Logic
1991·5.8
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
1990·0.0
The Sheltering Sky
1990·6.5
Decade
1989·8.5
Dangerous Liaisons
1988·7.2
Miles from Home
1988·5.4
The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
1987·6.4
Empire of the Sun
1987·7.5
Santabear's High Flying Adventure
1987·8.0
The Glass Menagerie
1987·6.3
Making Mr. Right
1987·5.2
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
1986·0.0
Rocket to the Moon
1986·10.0
Eleni
1985·5.8
Death of a Salesman
1985·6.9
The Killing Fields
1984·7.5
Places in the Heart
1984·7.2
True West
1984·8.3
Say Goodnight, Gracie
1983·10.0
American Dream
1981·9.0
Word of Honor
1981·7.5
A Wedding
1978·6.3