John Malkovich
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| John Malkovich | |
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 Malkovich at the Grimme Online Award 2005 at Schloss Bensberg |
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| Born | John Gavin Malkovich December 9, 1953 Christopher, Illinois, USA |
| Years active | 1984-present |
| Spouse(s) | Glenne Headly (1982-1988) Nicoletta Peyran (1989-present) |
John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is a twice Academy Award-nominated American actor, producer and director.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Malkovich was born in Christopher, Illinois, of Croatian descent on his father's side and of Scottish and German ancestry on his mother's.[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, Joe Anne, owned the Benton Evening News (a local newspaper in Benton), as well as the 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.
[edit] Career
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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 an 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.
[edit] 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 married Nicoletta Peyran, with whom he has two children. He is fluent in French and for nearly 10 years, Malkovich lived and worked in the theatre in southern France. Since 2003 he has lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[6]
Of the many people he has worked with, Malkovich is often associated with Gary Sinise, a fellow Steppenwolf Theatre Company alum. 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.
[edit] Political views
Politically, Malkovich has described himself as a libertarian. He is a supporter of the death penalty.[7] 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."[8]
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.[9] Fisk reacted with outrage.[10] 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."[11]
[edit] Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1984 | Places in the Heart | Mr. Will | Academy Award nomination |
| The Killing Fields | Alan 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) |
| 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 Miserables | 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 | ||
| 2008 | The Great Buck Howard | Buck Howard | awaiting release |
| The Mutant Chronicles | Constantine | awaiting release | |
| Burn After Reading | Ozzie Cox | awaiting release | |
| Changeling | Reverand Briegleb[12][13] | awaiting release | |
| Afterwards | Garrett Goodrich | post-production | |
| Disgrace | David Lurie | post-production |
[edit] Directing
- The Dancer Upstairs (2002)
[edit] References
- ^ Croatian Art. Croationhistory.net. Retrieved on 1995-09-02.
- ^ Seeing John Malkovich. Nicholaskralve.com. Retrieved on 2002-06-15.
- ^ Prisoners of War. The Moscow Times. Retrieved on 2006-03-31.
- ^ John Malkovich. Yahoomovies. Retrieved on 2001-05-14.
- ^ A multitude of Malkovich. Filmguardian.co.uk. Retrieved on 2001-09-30.
- ^ Kahn, Joseph P.. "Seeking John Malkovich", The Boston Globe, 12 September 2005. Retrieved on 2008-03-26.
- ^ Death Penalty Debate. lexingtonprosecutor.com. Retrieved on 2000-06-16.
- ^ Right for the part PROFILE: JOHN MALKOVICH. AllStarzHollywood.com. Retrieved on 2003-01-06.
- ^ MP stunned at actor's outburst. News.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved on 2002-05-04.
- ^ Why Does Malkovich Want to Kill Me?. counterpunch.org. Retrieved on 2002-05-13.
- ^ Life and taxes. Guardian.co.uk. Retrieved on 2006-09-07.
- ^ Kit, Borys. "3 join Jolie for 'Changeling'", The Hollywood Reporter, October 16, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-11-25.
- ^ Goebel, Jessica. "Malkovich Makes A 'Changeling'", MTV, November 9, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-11-25.
[edit] External links
- Fisk:Why does John Malkovich want to kill me?
- Profile: John Malkovich
- Life and taxes
- Finch and Partners (John's Management in the UK)
- John's official clothing design web site
- Photographs of John Malkovich
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| Persondata | |
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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 | |
