john malkovich

John Malkovich, August 2005 Born John Horatio Malkovich

December 9, 1953 (1953-12-09) (age 55)

Christopher, Illinois, USA Occupation Actor Years active 1984-present Spouse(s) Glenne Headly (1982-1988)

Nicoletta Peyran (1989-present) [show]Awards won Emmy Awards Outstanding Supporting Actor - Miniseries/Movie

1986 Death of a Salesman Other awards NBR Award for Best Supporting Actor

1984 Places in the Heart

NYFCC Award for Best Supporting Actor

1999 Being John Malkovich

John Horatio Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an Emmy Award-winning, two-time Academy Award-nominated American actor, producer and director. Over the last 25 years, Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 motion pictures, including Dangerous Liaisons, In the Line of Fire, Con Air, The Man in the Iron Mask, Rounders, Changeling, and Being John Malkovich. Contents [hide] 1 Early life and career 2 Personal life and political views 3 Filmography 3.1 Actor 3.2 Director 3.3 Producer 4 References 5 External links //

Early life and career

Malkovich was born in Christopher, Illinois, and is of Croatian 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. Malkovich 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.

In 1976, Malkovich, along with Joan Allen, Gary Sinise, and Glenne Headly, became a charter member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago.[5] He moved to New York City in 1982 to appear in a Steppenwolf production of the Sam Shepard play True West, for which he won an Obie Award.[4][6] 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.[4] His Broadway debut was that year 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 an Oscar nomination. He also portrayed Al Rockoff in The Killing Fields. He continued to have steady work in films like Empire of the Sun, directed by Steven Spielberg, and the 1987 film