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John Malkovich | |
Malkovich in 2009. | |
Born | John Gavin Malkovich December 9, 1953 (age 58) Christopher, Illinois, US |
Occupation | Actor, producer, fashion designer |
Years active | 1984–present |
Worked in | Being John Malkovich Adaptation. (as himself) |
Characters portrayed | John Horatio Malkovich |
Other works | Dangerous Liaisons Burn After Reading In the Line of Fire Places in the Heart |
John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an American actor, producer, director and fashion designer with his label Technobohemian. Over the last 25 years of his career, Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 motion pictures. For his roles in Places in the Heart and In the Line of Fire, he received Academy Award nominations. He has also appeared in critically acclaimed films such as Empire of the Sun, The Killing Fields, Dangerous Liaisons, Of Mice and Men, Con Air, Being John Malkovich, and Red, and has produced numerous films, including Juno and The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
Biography[]
In 1976, John Malkovich joined Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre, newly founded by his friend Gary Sinise. After that, it would take seven years before Malkovich would show up in New York and win an Obie in Sam Shepard's play "True West". In 1984, Malkovich would appear with Dustin Hoffman in the Broadway revival of "Death of a Salesman", which would earn him an Emmy when it was made into a made-for-TV movie the next year. His big-screen debut would be as the blind lodger in Places in the Heart, which earned him an Academy Award Nomination for best supporting actor. Other films would follow, including The Killing Fields and The Glass Menagerie, but he would be well remembered as Vicomte de Valmont in Dangerous Liaisons. Playing against Michelle Pfeiffer and Glenn Close in a costume picture helped raise his standing in the industry. He would be cast as the psychotic political assassin in Clint Eastwood's In the Line of Fire, for which he would be nominated for both the Academy Award and the Golden Globe. In 1994, Malkovich would portray the sinister Kurtz in the made-for-TV movie Heart of Darkness, taking the story to Africa as it was originally written. Malkovich has periodically returned to Chicago to both act and direct.[1]
Personal life and political views[]
Malkovich was married to actress Glenne Headly from 1982 to 1988. They divorced after Malkovich became involved with Michelle Pfeiffer, his co-star in Dangerous Liaisons. He later met his long-term partner Nicoletta Peyran on the set of The Sheltering Sky where she was the second assistant director, in 1989. They have two children; Amandine (born 1990) and Loewy (born March 18, 1992).
Malkovich is fluent in French, and for nearly 10 years lived and worked in a theater in Southern France. He and his family left France in a dispute over taxes in 2003,[2] and since then he has lived in? Cambridge, Massachusetts.[3] In a 2008 interview on the Late Show with David Letterman, Malkovich said he had just spent five weeks that summer living in France.
Malkovich lost millions[4] to Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme when it collapsed in 2008.[5]
Malkovich stated in a 2011 interview that "I'm not a political person actually, and I don’t have an ideology." He also said that he had not voted since George McGovern lost his presidential run in 1972.[6]
When asked in an interview by the Toronto Star whether it was necessary to have spiritual beliefs to portray a spiritual character, he said "No, I'd say not... I'm an atheist. I wouldn't say I'm without spiritual belief particularly, or rather, specifically. Maybe I'm agnostic, but I'm not quite sure there's some great creator somehow controlling everything and giving us free will. I don't know; it doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to me."[7]
In a 2002 appearance at the Cambridge Union Society, when asked whom he would most like to "fight to the death", Malkovich replied that he would "rather just shoot" journalist Robert Fisk and British MP George Galloway.[8] Both Fisk and Galloway reacted with outrage.[9][10]
Filmography[]
Actor[]
Year | Film | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1983 | Say Goodnight, Gracie | ||
1984 | Places in the Heart | Mr. Will | The Killing Fields) Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor (Also for The Killing Fields) National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor |
The Killing Fields | Al Rockoff | Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor (Also for Places in the Heart) National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor (Also for Places in the Heart) | |
True West | Lee | ||
1985 | Death of a Salesman | Biff Loman | (Made for Television) Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Sant Jordi Award for Best Foreign Actor (Mejor Actor Extranjero) (Also for Dangerous Liaisons and The Glass Menagerie Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film |
Eleni | Nick Gage | ||
1986 | Rocket to the Moon | Ben Stark | (Made for Television) |
1987 | The Glass Menagerie | Tom Wingfield | Sant Jordi Award for Best Foreign Actor (Mejor Actor Extranjero) (Also for Death of a Salesman and Dangerous Liaisons) |
Making Mr. Right | Dr. Jeff Peters/Ulysses | ||
Empire of the Sun | Basie | ||
Santabear's High Flying Adventure | Santa Claus (voice) | (Made for Television) His wife Glenne Headly voiced Mrs. Santa Claus. | |
1988 | Miles from Home | Barry Maxwell | |
Dangerous Liaisons | Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont | Sant Jordi Award for Best Foreign Actor (Mejor Actor Extranjero) (Also for Death of a Salesman and The Glass Menagerie) | |
1990 | The Sheltering Sky | Port Moresby | |
1991 | Old Times | Deeley | (Made for Television) |
The Object of Beauty | Jake | ||
Queens Logic | Elliot | Nominated — Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male | |
1992 | Shadows and Fog | Clown | |
Of Mice and Men | Lennie Small | ||
Jennifer Eight | Agent St. Anne | Jury "Coup de Chapeau" (For the acting performance) | |
1993 | In the Line of Fire | Mitch Leary | Nominated — Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Villain Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor |
Alive | Carlitos Paez | Uncredited | |
1994 | Heart of Darkness | Kurtz | (Made for Television) Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie |
1995 | O Convento | Michael | |
Beyond the Clouds | The director | ||
1996 | Mary Reilly | Dr. Henry Jekyll/Mr. Edward Hyde | |
The Portrait of a Lady | Gilbert Osmond | ||
The Ogre | Abel Tiffauges | Not released in US or UK | |
1997 | Con Air | Cyrus 'The Virus' Grissom | |
1998 | The Man in the Iron Mask | Athos | |
Rounders | Teddy KGB | ||
1999 | Being John Malkovich | John Horatio Malkovich | American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture |
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc | Charles VII | ||
Le Temps Retrouvé | Le Baron de Charlus | ||
RKO 281 | Herman Mankiewicz | Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie | |
2000 | Shadow of the Vampire | F.W. Murnau | |
Les Misérables (miniseries) | Javert | ||
2001 | Knockaround Guys | Teddy Deserve | |
I'm Going Home | John Crawford, film director | ||
Les âmes fortes | Monsieur Numance | ||
2002 | The Dancer Upstairs | Abimael Guzman | Also director |
Hideous Man | Narrator | Also narrator, director and writer | |
Napoléon (miniseries) | Charles Talleyrand | Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie | |
Ripley's Game | Tom Ripley | ||
2003 | Johnny English | Pascal Sauvage | |
Um Filme Falado | Captain John Walesa | ||
Adaptation. | Himself | ||
2004 | The Libertine | Charles II | |
2005 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Humma Kavula | |
Colour Me Kubrick | Alan Conway | ||
Flipping Uncle Kimono | Himself | Documentary | |
2006 | Art School Confidential | Professor Sandiford | |
Eragon | Galbatorix | ||
Klimt | Gustav Klimt | ||
The Call | Priest | short film | |
2007 | Drunkboat | Mort | |
In Transit | Pavlov | ||
Beowulf | Unferth | ||
Polis is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place | Himself | Documentary | |
2008 | Burn After Reading | Osborne Cox | Nominated — St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor |
The Great Buck Howard | Buck Howard | ||
Changeling | Reverend Briegleb | ||
Gardens of the Night | Michael | ||
Mutant Chronicles | Constantine | ||
2009 | Afterwards | Joseph Kay | |
2010 | Jonah Hex | Quentin Turnbull | |
Secretariat | Lucien Laurin | ||
Red | Marvin Boggs | Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated – Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor | |
Disgrace | David Lurie | ||
2011 | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | Bruce (Sam's boss) | |
2012 | Lines of Wellington | General Wellington | Raúl Ruiz's last film; completed by Valeria Sarmiento |
2013 | Chavez | TBA | [11] |
Warm Bodies | General Grigio | [12] |
Producer[]
- The Accidental Tourist (1988) (executive producer)
- Ghost World (2001)
- The Dancer Upstairs (2002)
- The Libertine (2004)
- Kill the Poor (2006)
- Art School Confidential (2006)
- Juno (2007)
- Young Adult (2011)
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
- Chavez (2013)[11]
References[]
- ↑ Biography for John Malkovich at IMDb.
- ↑ Barber, Lynn (September 7, 2006). "Life and taxes". The Guardian (London). http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,1816049,00.html. Retrieved July 14, 2011.
- ↑ Kahn, Joseph P. (September 12, 2005). "Seeking John Malkovich". Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2005/09/12/seeking_john_malkovich/. Retrieved December 28, 2008.
- ↑ "Actor John Malkovich complains over Madoff fraud award". BBC News. 2010-04-03. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8601690.stm. Retrieved 2010-04-25.
- ↑ Zambito, Thomas; Larry McShane (February 5, 2009). "Sandy Koufax, John Malkovich among Bernie Madoff victims as court filings are released". New York Daily News. http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2009/02/04/2009-02-04_sandy_koufax_john_malkovich_among_bernie.html. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
- ↑ John Malkovich: 'I've read more books on the Middle East than any British journalist'. The Guardian. June 17, 2011. Event occurs at 5:40. http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/video/2011/jun/17/john-malkovich-middle-east-barbican. Retrieved July 10, 2011.
- ↑ Howell, Peter (2008-09-11). "A Kinder, Gentler Malkovich". Toronto Star. http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/FilmFest/article/497033. Retrieved 2012-02-12.
- ↑ "MP stunned at actor's outburst". BBC Online. May 4, 2002. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1967317.stm. Retrieved December 28, 2008.
- ↑ Fisk, Robert (May 14, 2002). "Why Does Malkovich Want to Kill Me?". The Independent (London). http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-why-does-john-malkovich-want-to-kill-me-605849.html. Retrieved July 14, 2011.
- ↑ Fisk, Robert (10 March 2012). "Robert Fisk: Condemn me, but get your facts right first". The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-condemn-me-but-get-your-facts-right-first-7547335.html?origin=internalSearch. Retrieved April 29, 2012.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Wilkinson, Tracy. "Diego Luna's Cesar Chavez Movie Marches in Mexico." Los Angeles Times. July 1, 2012. Accessed 2012-10-14.
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