John Malkovich

John Malkovich
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John Malkovich, August 2005
Born John Gavin Malkovich
December 9, 1953 (1953-12-09) (age 55)
Christopher, Illinois, USA
Occupation Actor
Years active 1984-present
Spouse(s) Glenne Headly (1982-1988)
Tiana Davis (1989-present)

John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an Emmy Award-winning, two-time Academy Award-nominated American actor, producer and director.

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Biography

Early life

Malkovich was born in Christopher, Illinois, and is of Croatian, German, and Scottish ancestry.[1][2][3] He grew up in Benton, Illinois, in a large house on South Main Street. His father, Daniel Malkovich, was a state conservation director and publisher of Outdoor Illinois, a conservation magazine. His mother, Joanne, owned the "Benton Evening News" (a local newspaper in Benton), as well as Outdoor Illinois.[4][5] Because of his father's work, the Malkovich family is widely acknowledged as one of the founding families of the environmental movement in Illinois. He was an athlete in high school. He transferred to Illinois State University from Eastern Illinois University, where he only spent one semester with an interest in ecology, but he soon changed his major to Theatre.

Career

In 1976, Malkovich became a charter member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois. He moved to New York City, New York in 1983 and appeared in the play True West. He appeared on Broadway with Dustin Hoffman in Death of a Salesman (1984). Malkovich won an Emmy Award for this role when the play became a television movie. One of his first forays into film was as an extra alongside Terry Kinney, George Wendt, Joan Allen, and Laurie Metcalf in Robert Altman's A Wedding (1978). He made his film debut in Places in the Heart (1984) for which he was nominated for an Academy Award, for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. In 1994, he was nominated for another Oscar in the same category for In the Line of Fire (1993). Though he played the title role in the Charlie Kaufman-penned Being John Malkovich, he is playing a slight variation of himself, as indicated by the character's middle name of "Horatio". Malkovich has a cameo in the movie Adaptation.—also written by Kaufman—appearing as himself during the filming of Being John Malkovich. The Dancer Upstairs, Malkovich's directorial debut, was released in 2002.

John Malkovich was considered to join the cast of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation after William Petersen aka Gil Grissom leaves in the next series.

Malkovich also played a main role in the film adaptation of John Steinbecks award winning novelleta, "Of Mice and Men" in 1992 as Lennie alongside Gary Sinise as George.

On December 6th 2008, John Malkovich will host Saturday Night Live with musical guest TI.

Personal life

Malkovich was married to actress Glenne Headly, from 1982 to 1988. They divorced and Malkovich briefly dated Michelle Pfeiffer, his co-star in Dangerous Liaisons. He later met his long-term partner Nicoletta Peyran on the set of The Sheltering Sky in 1989. They have two children; Amandine (born 1990) and Lowey (born 1992). He is fluent in French and for nearly 10 years, Malkovich lived and worked in the theatre in southern France. In an interview on The Late Show With David Letterman, Malkovich said he had just spent five weeks in the Summer of 2008 living in France.[6] Since 2003 he has also lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[7]

Of the many people he has worked with, Malkovich is often associated with Gary Sinise, a fellow Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Illinois State University alum. Malkovich worked with Sinise by playing the role of Lennie Small in Of Mice and Men. Joan Allen was a fellow drama student at Eastern Illinois University whom Malkovich brought into Steppenwolf. He met actor John Mahoney in a Chicago acting class years later, and advised him to join Steppenwolf.

On April 4, 2005, while speaking at Illinois State University, Malkovich was awarded a diploma in theatre. When attending the university as a student in the 1970s, he failed to take his last remaining graduation requirement, the U.S. Constitution test. This requirement was waived in order to award him the diploma.

Political views

Politically, Malkovich has described himself as a Libertarian. He is an ardent supporter of the death penalty.[8] When the serial killer John Wayne Gacy was executed in 1994, Malkovich organized a champagne party for himself and his friends. Actor William Hootkins, who worked with Malkovich in BBC television's Rocket to the Moon, stated, "In fact, he's so right-wing you have to wonder if he's kidding."[9] In the United Kingdom in 2002 at the Cambridge Union Society, when asked whom he would most like to "fight to the death," he replied that he would "rather just shoot" journalist Robert Fisk and British MP George Galloway.[10] Fisk reacted with outrage.[11] When interviewed by The Observer, Malkovich elaborated on his comments: "I hate somebody who is supposed to be a Middle Eastern expert who thinks Jesus was born in Jerusalem. I hate what I consider his vile anti-semitism. This being said, I apologize to both Fisk and Galloway; they seem like good men but if they make such a heinous mistake again, I will not hesitate to murder them brutally by way of the gallows". Malkovich then added: "I'm a Christopher Hitchens fan myself, but no one has thinner skins than journalists, in my experience, and I come from a family of them... They can dish it out but they can't take it. But the reason I don't like the topic, why I don't really say anything about a whiner like Fisk, is it gives them more oxygen."[12]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1984 Places in the Heart Mr. Will Academy Award nomination
The Killing Fields Al Rockoff
True West Lee
1985 Death of a Salesman Biff Loman (Made for Television)
Eleni Nick Gage
1986 Rocket to the Moon Ben Stark (Made for Television)
1987 The Glass Menagerie Tom Wingfield
Making Mr. Right Dr. Jeff Peters/Ulysses
Empire of the Sun Basie
1988 Miles from Home Barry Maxwell
Dangerous Liaisons Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont
1990 The Sheltering Sky Port Moresby
1991 Old Times Deeley (Made for Television)
The Object of Beauty Jake
Queens Logic Elliot
1992 Shadows and Fog Clown
Of Mice and Men Lennie Small
Jennifer Eight Agent St. Anne
1993 In the Line of Fire Mitch Leary Academy Award nomination
Alive Old Carlitos
1994 Heart of Darkness Kurtz (Made for Television)
1995 O Convento Michael (voice only)
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
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
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc Charles VII
2000 Shadow of the Vampire F.W. Murnau
Les Misérables (miniseries) Javert
2001 Knockaround Guys Teddy Deserve
2002 The Dancer Upstairs Abimael Guzman Also director
Napoleon (mini \TVseries) Charles Talleyrand
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
2006 Art School Confidential Professor Sandiford
Eragon Galbatorix
Klimt Gustav Klimt
The Call Priest short film
2007 Drunkboat Mort
Gardens of the Night Michael
In Transit Pavlov
Beowulf Unferth
Polis is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place Himself Independent Documentary
2008 The Mutant Chronicles Constantine Independent film
Burn After Reading Osborne Cox
Changeling Reverend Briegleb
The Great Buck Howard Buck Howard awaiting release
Disgrace David Lurie awaiting release
Afterwards Dr. Joseph Kay awaiting release

Directing

Producing

References

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  1. ↑ "Croatian Art". Croationhistory.net. Retrieved on 1995-09-02.
  2. ↑ "Seeing John Malkovich". Nicholaskralve.com. Retrieved on 2002-06-15.
  3. ↑ "Prisoners of War". The Moscow Times. Retrieved on 2006-03-31.
  4. ↑ "John Malkovich". Yahoomovies. Retrieved on 2001-05-14.
  5. ↑ "A multitude of Malkovich". Filmguardian.co.uk. Retrieved on 2001-09-30.
  6. ↑ September 5, 2008 Letterman show
  7. ↑ Kahn, Joseph P. (12 September 2005). "Seeking John Malkovich", The Boston Globe. Retrieved on 2008-03-26. 
  8. ↑ "Death Penalty Debate". lexingtonprosecutor.com. Retrieved on 2000-06-16.
  9. ↑ "Right for the part PROFILE: JOHN MALKOVICH". AllStarzHollywood.com. Retrieved on 2003-01-06.
  10. ↑ "MP stunned at actor's outburst". News.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved on 2002-05-04.
  11. ↑ "Why Does Malkovich Want to Kill Me?". counterpunch.org. Retrieved on 2002-05-13.
  12. ↑ "Life and taxes". Guardian.co.uk. Retrieved on 2006-09-07.
  13. ↑ New movie! "Burn After Reading" "The Many Faces of John Malkovich", ABCNews.com, 2008-09 10. Retrieved on 2008-09-10.

External links

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play

John Dexter (1975) · Ellis Rabb (1976) · Mike Nichols / Alan Schneider (1977) · Melvin Bernhardt (1978) · Jack Hofsiss (1979) · Vivian Matalon (1980) · Peter Hall (1981) · Tommy Tune (1982) · Trevor Nunn (1983) · Michael Blakemore (1984) · John Malkovich (1985) · Jerry Zaks (1986) · Howard Davies (1987) · John Dexter (1988) · Jerry Zaks (1989) · Frank Galati (1990) · Jerry Zaks (1991) · Patrick Mason (1992) · George C. Wolfe (1993) · Stephen Daldry (1994) · Gerald Gutierrez (1995) · Gerald Gutierrez (1996) · Trevor Nunn (1999) · Michael Blakemore (2000) · Jack O'Brien (2001) · Mary Zimmerman (2002) · Robert Falls (2003) · Jack O'Brien (2004) · Doug Hughes (2005) · Nicholas Hytner (2006) · Jack O'Brien (2007) · Anna D. Shapiro (2008)
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

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NAME Malkovich, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Malkovich, John Gavin
SHORT DESCRIPTION Academy Award-nominated American actor, producer and director
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Christopher, Illinois
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH