John Malkovich is an American film, television, and stage actor renowned for his distinctive presence, intellectual intensity, and emotionally distant yet magnetic performances. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential character actors in modern cinema.

John Gavin Malkovich was born on December 9, 1953, in Illinois, United States. His mother, Joe Anne Choisser, and his father, Daniel Leon Malkovich, raised him in a family of diverse European roots; his paternal grandfather was of Croatian origin. During high school, Malkovich was involved in athletics before enrolling at Eastern Illinois University.

In 1976, he left university to join the Chicago-based Steppenwolf Theatre Company, helping to establish the ensemble alongside his close friend Gary Sinise. Seven years later, he won an Obie Award for his performance in Sam Shepard’s play True West. He later starred opposite Dustin Hoffman in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, a role he reprised in the 1985 television adaptation, earning an Emmy Award.

Malkovich transitioned to film in 1984 with Places in the Heart, portraying a blind man—a performance that earned him his first Academy Award nomination. The same year, he starred in The Killing Fields. His major cinematic breakthrough came with his portrayal of Vicomte de Valmont in Dangerous Liaisons, a role that cemented his international reputation.

Throughout his career, Malkovich became known for portraying morally ambiguous, intellectual, and often chilling characters. He played a psychopathic assassin in In the Line of Fire opposite Clint Eastwood, Colonel Kurtz in a television adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, and delivered acclaimed performances in films such as The Portrait of a Lady, Mary Reilly, and the self-referential cult classic Being John Malkovich, directed by Spike Jonze.

His personal life included a marriage to actress Glenne Headly from August 2, 1982, until their divorce on January 1, 1988. On September 20, 1989, he married Nicoletta Peyran, with whom he has two children: Amandine Malkovich (born 1990) and Lowry Malkovich (born 1992). Between 1993 and 2003, Malkovich lived in France.

In later years, he appeared in major studio productions including Transformers: Dark of the Moon, produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by Michael Bay, where he portrayed Bruce, acting alongside Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Tyrese Gibson, and Patrick Dempsey.

Awards:
1986 – Emmy Awards – Best Supporting Actor (Death of a Salesman)

Filmography and Television Work:
Director:
2002 – The Dancer Upstairs (Feature Film)

Producer:
2015 – Demolition (Feature Film)
2014 – Cesar Chavez (Feature Film)
2006 – Art School Confidential (Feature Film)
2004 – The Libertine (Feature Film)
2002 – The Dancer Upstairs (Feature Film)

Actor:
2018 – Mile 22 (Bishop) (Feature Film)
2017 – Valley of the Gods (Feature Film)
2017 – Unlocked (Feature Film)
2017 – I Love You, Daddy (Feature Film)
2017 – Bullet Head (Feature Film)
2016 – Zoolander 2 (Feature Film)
2016 – Deepwater Horizon (Feature Film)
2014 – The Casanova Variations (Giacomo Casanova) (Feature Film)
2014 – Penguins of Madagascar (Voice) (Feature Film)
2014 – Cut Bank (Sheriff Vogel) (Feature Film)
2014 – Cesar Chavez (Bogdanovitch) (Feature Film)
2013 – Warm Bodies (General Grigio) (Feature Film)
2013 – Siberian Lady Macbeth (Grandfather Kuzya) (Feature Film)
2013 – RED 2 (Marvin Boggs) (Feature Film)
2012 – Side by Side (Documentary) (Feature Film)
2012 – Noseland (Feature Film)
2012 – Linhas de Wellington (General Wellington) (Feature Film)
2011 – Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Bruce) (Feature Film)
2010 – Secretariat (Lucien Laurin) (Feature Film)
2010 – Jonah Hex (Turnbull) (Feature Film)
2010 – RED (Marvin Boggs) (Feature Film)
2010 – Janela Indiscreta (TV Series) (2 Episodes)
2008 – Disgrace (David Lurie) (Feature Film)
2008 – Burn After Reading (Osbourne Cox) (Feature Film)
2008 – The Great Buck Howard (Buck Howard) (Feature Film)
2008 – Mutant Chronicles (Constantine) (Feature Film)
2008 – In Tranzit (Pavlov) (Feature Film)
2008 – Afterwards (Doctor Kay) (Feature Film)
2007 – Gardens of the Night (Michael) (Feature Film)
2007 – Beowulf (Unferth) (Feature Film)
2006 – Klimt (Gustav Klimt) (Feature Film)
2006 – Art School Confidential (Professor Sandiford) (Feature Film)
2006 – Eragon (King Galbatorix) (Feature Film)
2005 – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Humma Kavula) (Feature Film)
2005 – Colour Me Kubrick (Alan Conway) (Feature Film)
2004 – The Libertine (Charles II) (Feature Film)
2003 – A Talking Picture (John Walesa) (Feature Film)
2002 – Ripley’s Game (Tom Ripley) (Feature Film)
2002 – Napoleon (Charles Maurice de Talleyrand) (TV Series)
2001 – Knockaround Guys (Teddy Deserve) (Feature Film)
2001 – Je rentre à la maison (Film Director) (Feature Film)
2000 – Shadow of the Vampire (F. W. Murnau) (Feature Film)
1999 – Time Regained (Baron de Charlus) (Feature Film)
1999 – RKO 281 (Herman J. Mankiewicz) (TV Film)
1999 – Being John Malkovich (John Horatio Malkovich) (Feature Film)
1999 – The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (Charles VII) (Feature Film)
1998 – Rounders (Teddy KGB) (Feature Film)
1998 – The Man in the Iron Mask (Athos) (Feature Film)
1997 – Con Air (Cyrus “The Virus” Grissom) (Feature Film)
1996 – The Ogre (Abel Tiffauges) (Feature Film)
1996 – Mary Reilly (Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde) (Feature Film)
1996 – Mulholland Falls (General Thomas Timms) (Feature Film)
1996 – Cannes Man (Himself) (Feature Film)
1996 – The Portrait of a Lady (Gilbert Osmond) (Feature Film)
1995 – Hideaway (Michael) (Feature Film)
1995 – Beyond the Clouds (Director) (Feature Film)
1993 – In the Line of Fire (Mitch Leary) (Feature Film)
1992 – Jennifer 8 (Agent St. Anne) (Feature Film)
1992 – Of Mice and Men (Lennie Small) (Feature Film)
1991 – Barton Fink (Feature Film)
1991 – The Object of Beauty (Jake) (Feature Film)
1991 – Shadows and Fog (Clown) (Feature Film)
1990 – The Sheltering Sky (Port Moresby) (Feature Film)
1988 – Dangerous Liaisons (Vicomte de Valmont) (Feature Film)
1987 – Glass Menagerie (Tom Wingfield) (Feature Film)
1987 – Making Mr. Right (Dr. Jeff Peters) (Feature Film)
1987 – Empire of the Sun (Basie) (Feature Film)
1985 – Death of a Salesman (Biff Loman) (TV Film)
1985 – Eleni (Nicholas Gage) (Feature Film)
1984 – The Killing Fields (Alan Rockoff) (Feature Film)
1984 – Places in the Heart (Mr. Will) (Feature Film)
1984 – Cinema 3 (TV Series) (2 Episodes)
1978 – A Wedding (Party Guest) (Feature Film)

Source: Biyografiler.com