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| Born | John Gavin Malkovich (1953-12-09) December 9, 1953 (age 71) Christopher, Illinois, US |
| Occupation | Actor/producer |
| Years active | 1984–present |
| Spouse(s) | Glenne Headly (1982–88) Nicoletta Peyran (1989–present) |
John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an American actor, producer, director and fashion designer with his label Technobohemian. Over the last 25 years of his career, Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 motion pictures. For his roles in Places in the Heart and In the Line of Fire, he received Academy Award nominations. He has also appeared in critically acclaimed films such as Empire of the Sun, The Killing Fields, Dangerous Liaisons, Con Air, Of Mice and Men, Being John Malkovich, and Red. He will produce the film version of the book The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
Early life
Malkovich was born in Christopher, Illinois. His paternal grandparents were Croatian, natives of Ozalj in Karlovac County, Croatia. His mother was of Scottish and German ancestry. He grew up in Benton, Illinois, in a large house on South Main Street. His father, Daniel Leon Malkovich, was a state conservation director and publisher of Outdoor Illinois, a conservation magazine. His mother, Joe Anne (née Choisser), owned the Benton Evening News (a local newspaper in Benton, Il.), as well as Outdoor Illinois. Malkovich attended Logan Grade School, Webster Junior High, and Benton Consolidated High School, in Benton, Illinois. During his high school years, he appeared in various plays and the musical, Carousel. He was also a member of a folk/rock musical trio, and was a member of a local summer theater/comedy project in Benton in 1972, where he co-starred in Jean-Claude Van Itallie's America Hurrah. Upon graduation from high school, he entered Eastern Illinois University, and then transferred to Illinois State University, where he majored in theatre.
Career
In 1976, Malkovich, along with Joan Allen, Gary Sinise, and Glenne Headly, became a charter member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago. He moved to New York City in 1980 to appear in a Steppenwolf production of the Sam Shepard play True West, for which he won an Obie Award. Malkovich then directed a Steppenwolf co-production, the 1984 revival of Lanford Wilson's Balm in Gilead, for which he received a second Obie Award and a Drama Desk Award. His Broadway debut that year was as Biff in Death of a Salesman, alongside Dustin Hoffman as Willy. Malkovich won an Emmy Award for this role when the play was adapted for television by CBS in 1985.
One of the actor's first forays into film was as an extra alongside Allen, Terry Kinney, George Wendt, and Laurie Metcalf in Robert Altman's 1978 film A Wedding. He made his feature film debut in 1984, as Sally Field's blind boarder Mr. Will in Places in the Heart; for his portrayal of Mr. Will, Malkovich received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He also portrayed Al Rockoff in The Killing Fields. He continued to have steady work in films such as Empire of the Sun, directed by Steven Spielberg, and the 1987 film adaptation of Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie, with Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. A few years later, Malkovich became a star when he portrayed the sinister and sensual Valmont in the 1988 film Dangerous Liaisons. He later reprised this role for the music video of "Walking on Broken Glass" by Annie Lennox.
Malkovich starred in the 1992 film adaptation of John Steinbeck's award-winning novella Of Mice and Men as Lennie alongside Gary Sinise as George. In 1994, he was nominated for another Oscar, in the same category, for In the Line of Fire. Though he played the title role in the Charlie Kaufman-penned Being John Malkovich, he played 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 film debut, was released in 2002. Recent film roles include The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Beowulf, Burn After Reading, Changeling, Red and Secretariat.
Malkovich has hosted three episodes of the NBC sketch show Saturday Night Live. The first occasion was in January 1989 with musical guest Anita Baker; the second in October 1993 with musical guest Billy Joel (and special appearance by former cast member Jan Hooks); and the third was in December 2008 with musical guest T.I. with Swizz Beatz (and special appearances by Justin Timberlake, Molly Sims, and Jamie-Lynn Sigler).
In keeping with his renaissance-man image, he also is a costume designer and has his own line of slightly odd men's clothing called Technobohemian.
In a 2008 interview on College Hour, Malkovich revealed that he has been discussing making a motion picture adaptation of the Arnon Grünberg novel The History of My Baldness.
In November 2009, Malkovich appeared in an advertisement for Nespresso with fellow actor George Clooney. He portrayed Quentin Turnbull in the film adaption of Jonah Hex.
In 2011, Malkovich directed Julian Sands in "A Celebration of Harold Pinter" in the Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Malkovich is known for his distinctive voice, which The Guardian describes as "a reedy, faintly orgasmic drawl".
Personal life and political views
Malkovich was married to actress Glenne Headly from 1982 to 1988. They divorced after Malkovich became involved with Michelle Pfeiffer, his co-star in Dangerous Liaisons. He later met his long-term partner Nicoletta Peyran on the set of The Sheltering Sky where she was the second assistant director, in 1989. They have two children; Amandine (born 1990) and Loewy (born 1992).
Malkovich is fluent in French, and for nearly 10 years lived and worked in a theater in southern France. He and his family left France in a dispute over taxes in 2003, and since then he has lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In a 2008 interview on The Late Show with David Letterman, Malkovich said he had just spent five weeks that summer living in France.
In April 2005, while speaking at Illinois State, Malkovich was awarded his bachelor's degree in theatre. When attending the university as a student in the 1970s, he failed to take his last remaining graduation requirement, a test on the United States Constitution; this requirement was waived for Malkovich.
Malkovich lost millions to Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme when it collapsed in 2008.
Malkovich stated in a 2011 interview that "I’m not a political person actually, and I don’t have an ideology." He also said that he hadn't voted since George McGovern lost his presidental run in 1972. According to actor William Hootkins, who worked with Malkovich in BBC Television's Rocket to the Moon, Malkovich is "so right-wing you have to wonder if he's kidding."
In a 2002 appearance at the Cambridge Union Society, when asked whom he would most like to "fight to the death", Malkovich replied that he would "rather just shoot" journalist Robert Fisk and British MP George Galloway. Fisk reacted with outrage.
Malkovich has repeatedly stated in interviews that he does not believe Halloumi is a cheese.
Filmography
Actor
Director
- Johnny Loves Bobby (1989)
- Strap-Hanging (1999)
- The Dancer Upstairs (2002)
- Hideous Man (2002)
- Blazing Satchels (2008)
- Lady Behave
Writer
- Hideous Man (2002)
Producer
- The Accidental Tourist (1988) (executive producer)
- Ghost World (2001)
- The Dancer Upstairs (2002)
- The Libertine (2004)
- Kill the Poor (2006)
- Art School Confidential (2006)
- Juno (2007)
References
- "Croatia to hand over Serbian villas to phantom Czech agency". nacional.hr.
- "Timesonline". Follow that star. London. January 3, 2004. Retrieved May 20, 2010.
- "Croatian Art". Croatianhistory.net. September 2, 1995. Retrieved December 22, 2008.
- Kralev, Nicholas (June 15, 2002). "Seeing John Malkovich". Nicholaskralve.com. Financial Times. Archived from the original (reprint) on October 4, 2006. Retrieved December 22, 2008.
- Stolyarova, Galina (March 31, 2006). "Prisoners of War". Moscow Times. Archived from the original on October 7, 2006. Retrieved December 22, 2008.
- ^ Wood, Gaby (September 30, 2001). "A multitude of Malkovich". The Guardian. London. Retrieved December 22, 2008.
- "JOE ANNE MALKOVICH". Benton Evening News. 2009-03-24. Retrieved 2010-03-22.
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- http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000518/bio
- ^ "John Malkovich – Biography". Yahoo! Movies. Retrieved December 22, 2008.
- ^ "Right for the part". The Sunday Telegraph. London. 2003-05-31. Retrieved 2008-12-28.
- http://technobohemian.org/
- "Episode dated January 24, 2009". Filmfestival Journal, College Hour. 2009-01-24. Nederland 2.
- Dozens of Images from Jonah Hex
- Hollywood actor John Malkovich at Edinburgh Fringe
- Gaby Wood (30 September 2001). "A multitude of Malkovich". London: Guardian. Retrieved 2010-04-25.
- Barber, Lynn (September 7, 2006). "Life and taxes". The Guardian. London. Retrieved July 14, 2011.
- Kahn, Joseph P. (September 12, 2005). "Seeking John Malkovich". Boston Globe. Retrieved December 28, 2008.
- "Actor John Malkovich complains over Madoff fraud award". BBC News. 2010-04-03. Retrieved 2010-04-25.
- Zambito, Thomas (February 5, 2009). "Sandy Koufax, John Malkovich among Bernie Madoff victims as court filings are released". New York Daily News. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
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- Fisk, Robert (May 14, 2002). "Why Does Malkovich Want to Kill Me?". The Independent. Retrieved July 14, 2011.
External links
- John Malkovich at IMDb
- John Malkovich at the Internet Broadway Database
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- "John Malkovich" in conversation with Jim Sharman at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Sydney Festival, January 2011
- How We Met: John Malkovich & Bella Freud – brief 2008 interview in The Independent
- John Malkovich in Mexico
- 1953 births
- Living people
- American film actors
- American television actors
- Drama Desk Award winners
- Emmy Award winners
- Obie Award recipients
- Actors from Illinois
- American people of Croatian descent
- American people of Scottish descent
- American people of German descent
- People from Franklin County, Illinois
- Eastern Illinois University alumni
- Illinois State University alumni