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