John Gavin Malkovich is an American actor, voice actor, director, producer, and fashion designer. He received Academy Award nominations for his performances in Places in the Heart and In the Line of Fire. Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 films, including The Killing Fields, Empire of the Sun, Dangerous Liaisons, Of Mice and Men, Mulholland Falls, Con Air, Rounders, Being John Malkovich, Shadow of the Vampire, Ripley’s Game, Johnny English, Red, and Velvet Buzzsaw. He portrayed Hercule Poirot in the three-part BBC One mystery series The ABC Murders.
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John Gavin Malkovich is an American actor, voice actor, director, producer, and fashion designer. He received Academy Award nominations for his performances in Places in the Heart and In the Line of Fire. Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 films, including The Killing Fields, Empire of the Sun, Dangerous Liaisons, Of Mice and Men, Mulholland Falls, Con Air, Rounders, Being John Malkovich, Shadow of the Vampire, Ripley’s Game, Johnny English, Red, and Velvet Buzzsaw. He has also produced films such as Ghost World, Juno, and The Perks of Being a Wallflower. He portrayed Hercule Poirot in the three-part BBC One mystery series The ABC Murders. He starred as the title character in the HBO drama series The New Pope. He also has a supporting role in the Netflix comedy series Space Force. His paternal grandparents were Croatian immigrants from Ozalj, and his other ancestry includes English, Scottish, French, German, Serbian, and Montenegrin. His father, Daniel Leon Malkovich, was a state conservation director who published the conservation magazine Outdoor Illinois. His mother, Joe Anne, owned the Benton Evening News weekly newspaper and Outdoor Illinois, He grew up with an older brother named Danny and three younger sisters named Amanda, Rebecca, and Melissa; in a May 2020 interview, he revealed that Melissa is his only surviving sibling.
He recited in Croatian, verses of the national anthem Lijepa na doma doma, in Bach’s song “Can Go Higher?” in the music video for Annie Lennox’s “Walking on Broken Glass” He later reprised this role for the musicvideo for Broken Glass. He appeared in the film adaptation of The Glass Menagerie directed by Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. He played Portolio in The Sheltering Sky directed by Woody Allen and directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and Bernardo Lennie as George Lennie. He was nominated for another Oscar, again in 1990, for Best Supporting Actor, for the film In Line Of Fire. He made his Broadway debut that year was as Biff in Death of a Salesman alongside Dustin Hoffman as Willy. He won an Emmy Award for this role when the play was adapted for television by CBS in 1985. In early 1982, he appeared in A Streetcar Named Desire with Chicago’s Wisdom Bridge Theatre. He then directed a Steppenwolf co-production, a revival of Lanford Wilson’s Balm in Gilead, for which he received a second Obie Award and a Drama Desk Award.
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