Cast & creator
John Malkovich
Best known for Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Daily Show, Late Show with David Letterman
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).
Also known as: John Gavin Malkovich
175
film credits
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television credits
189
1975–2026 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (212)
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Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
2014
The Daily Show
Self
1996
Late Show with David Letterman
Self - Guest
1993
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
1975
The Graham Norton Show
Self
2007
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Self
2005
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
1993
Late Night with David Letterman
Self - Guest
1982
Billions
Grigor Andolov
2016
American Playhouse
Lee
1982American Playhouse
Ben Stark
1982
De Wereld Draait Door
Self
2005
Wetten, dass..?
Self
1981
American Masters
Self
1986
The Jonathan Ross Show
Self
2011
Performance
Deeley
1991
Bad Monkey
Spencer
2024
Penguins of Madagascar
Dave (voice)
2014
Space Force
Dr. Adrian Mallory
2020
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Self - Guest
2001Romy Award
Presenter
1990
On n'est pas couché
Self - Guest
2006
Sacrifice
Gunnar
2026
Lubach
2025
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Producer
2012
Con Air
Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom
1997
RIPLEY
Reeves Minot
2024
Deepwater Horizon
Donald Vidrine
2016
Bird Box
Douglas
2018
Warm Bodies
Colonel Grigio
2013
RED
Marvin Boggs
2010
Mile 22
Bishop
2018
The New Look
Lucien Lelong
2024
Johnny English
Pascal Sauvage
2003
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Humma Kavula
2005
Changeling
Rev. Gustav Briegleb
2008
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
The Impressive Clergyman
2020
The Man in the Iron Mask
Athos
1998
Empire of the Sun
Basie
1987
Ava
Duke
2020
Being John Malkovich
John Horatio Malkovich
1999
RED 2
Marvin Boggs
2013
Projectorparishilton
2008
Juno
Producer
2007
Zoolander 2
Chazz Spencer
2016
Wild Horse Nine
Chris
2026
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Charles VII
1999
Burn After Reading
Osborne Cox
2008
In the Line of Fire
Mitch Leary
1993
Ten Year Old Tom
Mr. B (voice)
2021
Demolition
Producer
2016
The New Pope
Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox
2020Gero von Boehm begegnet...
Self
2002
Jonah Hex
Turnbull
2010
Adaptation.
John Malkovich (uncredited)
2002
In the Hand of Dante
Joe Black
2026
Secretariat
Lucien Laurin
2010
Beowulf
Unferth (Voice)
2007
Napoleon
Charles de Talleyrand
2002
Opus
Alfred Moretti
2025
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Judge Edward D. Cowart
2019
Dangerous Liaisons
Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont
1988
Alive
Carlitos Páez / Narrator (uncredited)
1993
Young Adult
Executive Producer
2011
Shadow of the Vampire
F. W. Murnau
2000
Rounders
Teddy KGB
1998
The ABC Murders
Hercule Poirot
2018
Shattered
Ronald
2022Shattered
Producer
2022
Unlocked
Bob Hunter
2017
The Killing Fields
Al Rockoff
1984
Crossbones
Blackbeard
2014
Mulholland Falls
General Thomas Timms
1996
Les Misérables
Javert
2000
Of Mice and Men
Lennie Small
1992
Velvet Buzzsaw
Piers
2019
Eragon
King Galbatorix
2006
Art School Confidential
Professor Sandiford
2006Art School Confidential
Producer
2006
Places in the Heart
Mr. Will
1984
Bullet Head
Walker
2017
Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona
Self - Narrator (voice)
2019
White Elephant
Glen Follett
2022
Ripley's Game
Tom Ripley
2002
Ghost World
Producer
2001
One Ranger
Geddes
2023
Jennifer Eight
Agent St. Anne
1992
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Bruce Brazos
2011
Savage Salvation
Peter
2022
Mindcage
The Artist
2022
The Great Buck Howard
Buck Howard
2008
The Libertine
Charles II
2004The Libertine
Producer
2004
Fool's Paradise
Ed Cote
2023
In Tranzit
Pavlov
2008
Unsinkable
Chief Engineer Pollard
2024
The Wilde Wedding
Laurence
2017The Wilde Wedding
Executive Producer
2017
The Portrait of a Lady
Gilbert Osmond
1996
Mr. Blake at Your Service!
Andrew Blake
2023
Mutant Chronicles
Constantine
2008
The Sheltering Sky
Port
1990
Knockaround Guys
Teddy Deserve
2001
The Yellow Tie
Sergiu Celibidache
2025
Siberian Education
Grandfather Kuzya
2013
Death of a Salesman
Biff Loman
1985
Beyond the Clouds
The Director
1995
Mary Reilly
Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde
1996
Cut Bank
Sheriff Vogel
2014
Arkansas
Bright
2020
The Accidental Tourist
Executive Producer
1988
Shadows and Fog
Clown
1991Bishop
Lincoln Graves
The Survivalist
Aaron Ramsey
2021
Cesar Chavez
Bogdanovitch
2014
I Love You, Daddy
Leslie Goodwin
2017
Side by Side
Self
2012
Queens Logic
Eliot
1991
Rogue Hostage
Sam Nelson
2021
Valley of the Gods
Wes Tauros
2020
Cannes Man
Self
1996
Afterwards
Joseph Kay
2008
Gardens of the Night
Michael
2008
Zona+
Próprio
1994
Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA
Port (archive footage)
2017
The Object of Beauty
Jake Bartholomew
1991
Klimt
Gustav Klimt
2006
Time Regained
Baron de Charlus
1999
SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas
(archive footage)
2009
Seneca
Seneca
2023
The Dancer Upstairs
Abimael Guzman (uncredited)
2002The Dancer Upstairs
Director
2002The Dancer Upstairs
Producer
2002
Disgrace
David Lurie
2008
Last Call
Dr. Felton
2020Last Call
Producer
2020
Chariot
Dr. Karn
2022
Miles from Home
Barry Maxwell
1988
The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
Self
1987
The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover
Dave / Dr. Octavius Brine (voice)
2014
Making Mr. Right
Jeff Peters / Ulysses
1987
The Line
Beach Miller
2024
Heart of Darkness
Kurtz
1994Strap Hanging
Director
2014
Noseland
Self
2014
Colour Me Kubrick
Alan Conway
2005
The Ogre
Abel
1996
I’m Going Home
John Crawford
2001
RKO 281
Herman Mankiewicz
1999
Ladies Room
Roberto
1999
Breaking Rachmaninoff
2023
Hideous Man
Narrator
2002Hideous Man
Director
2002Hideous Man
Writer
2002
A Wedding
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
1978
About Love. Adults Only
Ed
2017
A Journey to Sundance
Self
2023
Lines of Wellington
General Wellington
2012
Eleni
Nicholas 'Nick' Gage
1985
A Talking Picture
Comandante John Walesa
2003
The Glass Menagerie
Tom Wingfield
1987
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
Self
1990
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'
Self
2005
Saturday Night
Self
2010
The Life of Mirrors
2025
Hotel
Omar Jonnson
2001
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
Self
1997
Annie Lennox: Totally Diva
1992
A Winter's Journey
Leiermann
Safe Sets: Dying to Work in the Film Industry
self
2024
Just Call Me God
Satur Diman Cha
2017
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
Self (uncredited)
1995
Kill the Poor
Producer
2003
Supercon
Sid Newberry
2018A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf
Unferth
La Traversée du désir
Self
2009
Rocket to the Moon
Ben Stark
1986
Word of Honor
Gary
1981
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
Self / Biff
1986Santabear's High Flying Adventure
Santa Claus (voice)
1987
All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set
Self
2012
Casanova Gene
2018
Old Times
1991
Psychogenic Fugue
All characters
2016
Drunkboat
Mort
2012
American Dream
1981
The Convent
Michael
1995
Savage Souls
Monsieur Numance
2001
Abel
Executive Producer
2010
Gotta Get Down to It
Sound Mixer
2019
The Music Critic
The Narrator
2018
Lost and Found in Paris
Wim Waldemar
True West
Lee
1984
Which Way Home
Executive Producer
2009
100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story
Self
2011Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
2007
The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer
Jack Unterweger
2010
Casanova Variations
Giacomo
2014
Lady Behave
Director
2000Lady Behave
Writer
2000
Decade
Self
1989Music at the Sea
Self
2008
Jack Unterweger - The Charming Serial Killer
2014Finding the Burn
Self / Osborne Cox (archive footage)
2008
Ecstasy
Vinny
2013
Say Goodnight, Gracie
Steve
1983Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies
Narrator
2008Welcome Back, George
Self
2008
Snow Angel
Writer
2008Le paradoxe de John Malkovich
Himself
2014
Being Related to John Malkovich
Self
2026Butterflies
Man
2011