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).
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| 1 | Opus (2025) | Alfred Moretti | 7 | |
| 2 | Seneca (2023) | Seneca | - | - |
| 3 | One Ranger (2023) | Geddes | - | - |
| 4 | Fool's Paradise (2023) | Ed Cote | 6 | |
| 5 | Mindcage (2022) | The Artist | 4 | |
| 6 | Savage Salvation (2022) | Peter | 1 | |
| 7 | Chariot (2022) | Dr. Karn | 4 | |
| 8 | Shattered (2022) | Ronald | 5 | |
| 9 | White Elephant (2022) | Glen Follett | 2.5 | |
| 10 | Rogue Hostage (2021) | Sam Nelson | 5.3 | |
| 11 | The Survivalist (2021) | Aaron Ramsey | - | - |
| 12 | Valley of the Gods (2020) | Wes Tauros | - | - |
| 13 | Last Call (2020) | Dr. Felton | - | - |
| 14 | Arkansas (2020) | Bright | 6.7 | |
| 15 | Ava (2020) | Duke | 6.3 | |
| 16 | Velvet Buzzsaw (2019) | Piers | 5.4 | |
| 17 | Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019) | Judge Edward D. Cowart | 7 | |
| 18 | Supercon (2018) | Sid Newberry | 6 | |
| 19 | Bird Box (2018) | Douglas | 7 | |
| 20 | Mile 22 (2018) | Bishop | 6.4 | |
| 21 | About Love. Adults Only (2017) | лектор Эд | - | - |
| 22 | Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda (2017) | Port (archive footage) | 7 | |
| 23 | The Wilde Wedding (2017) | Laurence | 4 | |
| 24 | Bullet Head (2017) | Walker | 4.3 | |
| 25 | I Love You, Daddy (2017) | Leslie Goodwin | 5 | |
| 26 | Unlocked (2017) | Bob Hunter | 6.8 | |
| 27 | Deepwater Horizon (2016) | Donald Vidrine | 7.4 | |
| 28 | Zoolander 2 (2016) | Chazz Spencer | 5.8 | |
| 29 | Cut Bank (2014) | Sheriff Vogel | 6 | |
| 30 | Casanova Variations (2014) | Giacomo | - | - |
| 31 | Penguins of Madagascar (2014) | Dave (voice) | 6.9 | |
| 32 | Cesar Chavez (2014) | Bogdanovitch | 5.7 | |
| 33 | Ecstasy (2013) | Vinny | 8 | |
| 34 | Warm Bodies (2013) | Colonel Grigio | 6.8 | |
| 35 | Siberian Education (2013) | Grandfather Kuzya | 6.3 | |
| 36 | RED 2 (2013) | Marvin Boggs | 6.9 | |
| 37 | Lines of Wellington (2012) | General Wellington | 6.5 | |
| 38 | Side by Side (2012) | Self | 7.6 | |
| 39 | Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) Oscars 2012 | Bruce Brazos | 6.6 | |
| 40 | Jonah Hex (2010) | Turnbull | 5.2 | |
| 41 | The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer (2010) | Jack Unterweger | - | - |
| 42 | RED (2010) | Marvin Boggs | 7.4 | |
| 43 | Saturday Night (2010) | Self | 7 | |
| 44 | Secretariat (2010) | Lucien Laurin | 7.3 | |
| 45 | Gardens of the Night (2008) | Michael | - | - |
| 46 | Burn After Reading (2008) | Osborne Cox | 7 | |
| 47 | Afterwards (2008) | Joseph Kay | 4.8 | |
| 48 | Changeling (2008) Oscars 2009 | Rev. Gustav Briegleb | 7.6 | |
| 49 | Mutant Chronicles (2008) | Constantine | 4.7 | |
| 50 | In Tranzit (2008) | Pavlov | - | - |
| 51 | The Great Buck Howard (2008) | Buck Howard | 5.8 | |
| 52 | Disgrace (2008) | David Lurie | 7 | |
| 53 | Beowulf (2007) | Unferth | 6 | |
| 54 | Art School Confidential (2006) | Professor Sandiford | 7.8 | |
| 55 | Eragon (2006) | King Galbatorix | 5.8 | |
| 56 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) | Humma Kavula | 7.4 | |
| 57 | Colour Me Kubrick (2005) | Alan Conway | 6 | |
| 58 | The Libertine (2004) | Charles II | 6.1 | |
| 59 | A Talking Picture (2003) | Comandante John Walesa | 3 | |
| 60 | Johnny English (2003) | Pascal Sauvage | 6.1 | |
| 61 | Adaptation. (2002) Oscars 2003 | John Malkovich (uncredited) | 7.4 | |
| 62 | Ripley's Game (2002) | Tom Ripley | 7.4 | |
| 63 | Hotel (2001) | Omar Jonnson | - | - |
| 64 | I’m Going Home (2001) | John Crawford | - | - |
| 65 | Knockaround Guys (2001) | Teddy Deserve | 6.5 | |
| 66 | Savage Souls (2001) | Monsieur Numance | - | - |
| 67 | Shadow of the Vampire (2000) Oscars 2001 | F. W. Murnau | 6.9 | |
| 68 | RKO 281 (1999) | Herman Mankiewicz | 6.5 | |
| 69 | The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999) | Charles VII | 6.7 | |
| 70 | Being John Malkovich (1999) Oscars 2000 | John Horatio Malkovich | 7.5 | |
| 71 | Rounders (1998) | Teddy KGB | 7.1 | |
| 72 | The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) | Athos | 6.5 | |
| 73 | Con Air (1997) Oscars 1998 | Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom | 7.1 | |
| 74 | Cannes Man (1996) | Self | - | - |
| 75 | The Portrait of a Lady (1996) | Gilbert Osmond | 3.5 | |
| 76 | The Ogre (1996) | Abel | 4 | |
| 77 | Mary Reilly (1996) | Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde | 5.8 | |
| 78 | Mulholland Falls (1996) | General Thomas Timms | 7.2 | |
| 79 | Beyond the Clouds (1995) | The Director | 9 | |
| 80 | The Convent (1995) | Michael | 2 | |
| 81 | Alive (1993) | Carlitos Páez / Narrator (uncredited) | 7.1 | |
| 82 | Heart of Darkness (1993) | Kurtz | - | - |
| 83 | In the Line of Fire (1993) | Mitch Leary | 6.5 | |
| 84 | Jennifer Eight (1992) | Agent St. Anne | 4.3 | |
| 85 | Of Mice and Men (1992) | Lennie Small | 7.8 | |
| 86 | The Object of Beauty (1991) | Jake Bartholomew | - | - |
| 87 | Queens Logic (1991) | Eliot | - | - |
| 88 | Shadows and Fog (1991) | Clown | 6.2 | |
| 89 | Dangerous Liaisons (1988) | Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont | 6.6 | |
| 90 | Making Mr. Right (1987) | Jeff Peters / Ulysses | - | - |
| 91 | Empire of the Sun (1987) | Basie | 7.8 | |
| 92 | The Glass Menagerie (1987) | Tom Wingfield | - | - |
| 93 | Death of a Salesman (1985) | Biff Loman | 7.7 | |
| 94 | The Killing Fields (1984) | Al Rockoff | 7.8 | |
| 95 | Places in the Heart (1984) | Mr. Will | 8.5 | |
| 96 | A Wedding (1978) | Wedding Guest (uncredited) | 5 | |
| 97 | 100 Years | Director / Writer | - | - |

