John Cusack

John Cusack

John Paul Cusack is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, and political activist. He has starred in more than 85 films, including Sixteen Candles, Tapeheads, Say Anything, Bullets over Broadway, Grosse Pointe Blank, Being John Malkovich, and Maps to the Stars. He is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.

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Summary John CusackJohn Paul Cusack is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, and political activist. He began acting in films during the 1980s and has since starred in more than 85 films, including Sixteen Candles, Tapeheads, Say Anything, Bullets over Broadway, Grosse Pointe Blank, Being John Malkovich, and Maps to the Stars. He is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders in his 2016 and 2020 presidential bids. In 2015, he met Edward Ellsberg, a fugitive from the US because of his leaks of classified information, at a Moscow hotel room. He later scolded him for misquoting him in order to make an interesting headline, but later converted his conversation into a book titled The Things That Can and Cannot Be Said That Can’t Be Said.

He has two older sisters, Joan and Ann, and two other siblings, Bill and Susie. He was born in 1966 in Evanston, Illinois, and is the son of writer-actor-producer and documentary filmmaker Richard J. Cusack, originally from New York City and Ann Paula \”Nancy\” Cusacks, a former mathematics teacher and politicalactivist. He graduated from Evanston Township High School in 1984, where he met Jeremy Piven, and spent a year at New York University.