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. In 1976, Malkovich, along with Joan Allen, Gary Sinise, and Glenne Headly, became a charter member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago. He studied acting at the William Esper Studio. He then transferred to Illinois State University, where he majored in theater, but dropped out. As a member of a local summer theater project, he co-starred in Jean-Claude van Itallie's America Hurrah in 1972.Īfter graduating from high school in 1972, Malkovich enrolled at Eastern Illinois University. He was also active in a folk gospel group, with whom he sang at churches and community events. During his high-school years, he appeared in various plays and the musical Carousel. Malkovich attended Logan Grade School, Webster Junior High School, and Benton Consolidated High School. His paternal grandparents were Croatian immigrants from the vicinity of Ozalj his other ancestry includes English, Scottish, French, and German descent. In a May 2020 interview, he revealed that Melissa is his only surviving sibling. He grew up with an older brother, Danny, and three younger sisters, Amanda, Rebecca, and Melissa. His mother, Joe Anne (née Choisser), owned the Benton Evening News daily newspaper and Outdoor Illinois. His father, Daniel Leon Malkovich, was a state conservation director, who published the conservation magazine Outdoor Illinois. Malkovich was born in Christopher, Illinois, on December 9, 1953. Adrian Mallory in the Netflix comedy series Space Force (2020–2022). He has additionally made recurring guest appearances as Russian billionaire/criminal Grigor Andolov in Billions (2018–19), and has a supporting role as Dr. His lead roles include Blackbeard in the NBC pirate drama Crossbones (2014), Hercule Poirot in the three-part BBC One mystery series The ABC Murders (2018), and the title character in the HBO drama series The New Pope (2020). He has also produced films such as Ghost World (2001), Juno (2007), and The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012).įrom the 2010s, Malkovich began to appear on television. Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 films, including The Killing Fields (1984), Empire of the Sun (1987), Dangerous Liaisons (1988), Of Mice and Men (1992), In the Line of Fire (1993), Mulholland Falls (1996), Con Air (1997), Rounders (1998), Being John Malkovich (1999), The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999), Shadow of the Vampire (2000), Ripley's Game (2002), Johnny English (2003), Burn After Reading (2008), Red (2010), Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011), Warm Bodies (2013), Cesar Chavez (2014), Bird Box (2018), and Velvet Buzzsaw (2019). He is the recipient of several accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. It made all as much money as it did because everyone who saw it, including the ones who only went because everyone else they knew had already seen it, instinctively sensed that it was observing this moment in American history and capturing it, not just for posterity's sake or for perverse entertainment value but as monument and warning.John Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an American actor. But for all its laughs, both subtle and broad-and for all its evident familiarity with crowd-pleasing yet grimly clever '80s horror comedies like "They Live!", "Fright Night," "Reanimator," "The People Under the Stairs," "The Hidden," "Child's Play" and other movies that people in their 30s and 40s saw multiple times at dollar theaters and drive-ins and on cable-"Get Out" is no joke. "A black man meets his white girlfriend's parents for the first time it's a horror movie" is the kind of pitch that might earn a delighted "I'm down, brother!" chuckle from the father of said white girlfriend, a brain surgeon played by Bradley Whitford who tells the hero Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) that he would vote for Obama a third time if he could. I rarely feel this confident about a film sight-unseen, but as a longtime fan of Peele, it seemed clear that he knew exactly what his movie was about a deep level. As soon as I heard that Jordan Peele's debut feature had the plot of an edgy indie romantic comedy but was in fact "a horror movie," I knew it was going to be terrific.
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