John Malkovich Born: Dec 09, 1953 in Christopher, Illinois Occupation: Actor, Director, Active: '80s-2000s Major Genres: Drama, Comedy Career Highlights: Being John Malkovich, Dangerous Liaisons, Places in the Heart First Major Screen Credit: The Killing Fields (1984)
| Filmography | | MAKING MR. RIGHT 1987 | | SHELTERING SKY, THE 1990 | | ELENI 1985 | | KILLING FIELDS, THE 1984 | | PLACES IN THE HEART 1984 | | EMPIRE OF THE SUN 1987 | | DANGEROUS LIAISONS 1988 | | GLASS MENAGERIE, THE 1987 | | QUEENS LOGIC 1991 | | OBJECT OF BEAUTY, THE 1991 | | JENNIFER 8 1992 | | IN THE LINE OF FIRE 1993 | | OF MICE AND MEN 1992 | | MARY REILLY 1996 | | MULHOLLAND FALLS 1996 | | PORTRAIT OF A LADY, THE 1996 | | MAN IN THE IRON MASK, THE 1997 | | BEING JOHN MALKOVICH 1999 | | RKO 281 1999 | | MESSENGER: THE STORY OF JOAN OF ARC, THE 1999 | | SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE 2000 | | KNOCKAROUND GUYS 2001 | | TIME REGAINED 1999 | | BEYOND THE CLOULDS 2000 | | SHADOWS AND FOG 1991 | | CONVENT, THE 1995 | | JOHNNY ENGLISH 2003 | | ORGE, THE 2003 | | RIPLEY'S GAME 2003 | | NAPOLEON COLLECTOR'S EDITION 2003 | | ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL 2006 | | LIBERTINE, THE 2005 | | ERAGON 2006 | | COLOR ME KUBRICK 2007 | | BURN AFTER READING 2008 | | KLIMT 2005 | | CHANGELING 2008 | | MUTANT CHRONICLES 2009 | | GREAT BUCK HOWARD, THE 2009 | | GARDENS OF THE NIGHT 2008 | | ADVENTURE COLLECTION, THE 2008 | | DISGRACE 2009 |
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One of the leading actors of his generation and an important figure in world cinema, John Malkovich made the term icy calm his trademark. After winning acclaim for his characterization of the scheming Vicomte de Valmont in Dangerous Liaisons, he became associated with a series of roles that, to put it plainly, essentially required him to be an evil bastard.
The product of a large, highly intellectual family, Malkovich was born December 9, 1953, in Christopher, IL. Initially a portly youth, he underwent a self-imposed physical transformation, emerging as a star high school athlete. He went on to attend Eastern Illinois University, where he originally aspired to be a professional environmentalist. With his friend Gary Sinise, Malkovich helped co-found Chicago's {~Steppenwolf Theatre} in 1976. Seven years later, he won an Obie award when the {~Steppenwolf} production of Sam Shepard's {+True West} was brought to New York. He next appeared on Broadway with Dustin Hoffman in the 1984 revival of {+Death of a Salesman}; when it was transformed into a television movie a year later, Malkovich won an Emmy for his efforts. While he was working on Broadway, he made his film debut, playing a blind transient in Places in the Heart (1984), which earned him an Oscar nomination. He also had a starring role in The Killing Fields the same year.
Although certainly capable of projecting warmth and pathos, Malkovich became best-known for his ice-water-in-the-veins roles. In addition to praise for his performance in Dangerous Liaisons, Malkovich won recognition -- and Oscar and Golden Globe nominations -- for his portrayal of the chameleon-like political assassin in Wolfgang Peterson's In the Line of Fire (1993). Other sinister Malkovich characterizations include Kurtz in the 1994 TV-movie version of Joseph Conrad's {-Heart of Darkness}, the secretive Dr. Jekyll in Mary Reilly (1996), and Isabel Archer's dastardly husband in The Portrait of a Lady (1996). In 1999, Malkovich played what was undoubtedly his most unusual role -- himself -- in Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich. Both the subject of the film and one of its stars, he had the surreal duty of letting the film's other characters into his mind, something many audience members had no doubt been dreaming of doing for years. The film provided Malkovich's career with a sort of popular resurgence, and the following year found him essaying the role of a wild eyed F.W. Murnau in the dark horror comedy Shadow of the Vampire. The second feature by experimental filmmaker E. ELias Mehrige, Shadow of the Vampire took a magic realism approach to documenting the production of Murnau's legendary 1922 classic Nosferatu.
In the years that followed Malkovich continued his trend of alternating roles in high-profile Hollywood fare with more artistically gratifying foreign films, and after turning up in the German miniseries Les Miserables (2000) and Je rentre a la maison Malkovich turned up opposite Vin Diesel in the box office flash Knockaround Guys (2001). In 2002 Malkovich picked up where Matt Damon left off in the thriller Ripley's Game before traveling back in time for the historical adventure drama Napoleon. After cracking up international audiences in Johnny English (2003), fans got to see Malkovich take on the role of a Stanley Kubrick imposter in the fact based Colour Me Kubrick.
After a string of decidedly small films, Malkovich surfaced in 2005 in the sci-fi comedy blockbuster The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Based on the cult novel by Douglas Adams, the picture cast Malkovich as an alien guru and gave him a chance to flex some of his sillier chops.
Maintaining his theatrical ties while tending to his successful film career, Malkovich appeared in the 1993 Broadway production {+State of Shock}, and has periodically returned to Chicago to both act and direct in local presentations. For a number of years, he was married to fellow {~Steppenwolf} alumnus Glenne Headly. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.
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