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