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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). Description above from the Wikipedia article John Malkovich, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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). Description above from the Wikipedia article John Malkovich, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Daily Show
The Graham Norton Show
Billions
Saturday Night Live
RIPLEY
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Jonathan Ross Show
Alive
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'
Fool's Paradise
Zoolander 2
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Velvet Buzzsaw
Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
Jennifer Eight
Ten Year Old Tom
Shattered
Penguins of Madagascar
Eragon
Rounders
The Man in the Iron Mask
The New Look
Arkansas
Beowulf
Warm Bodies
Unlocked
Johnny English
Con Air
In Tranzit
Bird Box
Places in the Heart
Deepwater Horizon
Savage Salvation
One Ranger
Napoleon
White Elephant
Changeling
RED 2
Jonah Hex
Ava
RED
Space Force
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Rogue Hostage
The New Pope
Dangerous Liaisons
In the Line of Fire
Secretariat
The ABC Murders
Crossbones
The Call
Shadow of the Vampire
Of Mice and Men
Production Credits
Young Adult
Juno
The Accidental Tourist
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Shattered
Which Way Home
Demolition
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