John Malkovich
John Malkovich | |
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| Born | John Gavin Malkovich |
| Years active | 1984 - present |
| Spouse(s) | Glenne Headly (1982-1988) Nicoletta Peyran (1989-) |
John Gavin Malkovich (born December 91953) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, producer and director.
Biography
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 St. His father, Daniel Malkovich, was a state conservation director and publisher of Illinois Magazine, 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. By high school, he had transformed himself physically and was an athlete. He transferred to Illinois State University from a university where he only spent one semester with an interest in ecology, but he soon changed his major to theatre.
Personal life
Malkovich was married to actress Glenne Headly from 1982 to 1988. They divorced and Malkovich briefly dated Michelle Pfeiffer, co-star in Dangerous Liaisons. He resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts with his wife, Nicoletta Peyran, and their two children. He is fluent in French.
Of the many people he has worked with, Malkovich is often associated with Gary Sinise, a fellow Steppenwolf alum. Also, 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 42005, 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.
Malkovich has worked with Jeremy Irons in two movies; The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) and Eragon (2007), though they didn't have scenes together in the second movie.
Political views
Politically, Malkovich has described himself as a libertarian. He is a supporter of the death penalty.[6] When the Chicago 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."[7]
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.[8] Fisk reacted with outrage.[9] Galloway brings it up frequently on his radio show with great amusement. [10][11][12] 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."[13]
Filmography
Movies
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Places in the Heart | Mr. Will | Academy Award nomination |
| The Killing Fields | Alan Rockoff | ||
| 1985 | Death of a Salesman | Biff Loman | (Made for Television) |
| Eleni | Nick Gage | ||
| 1986 | Rocket to the Moon | Ben Stark | (Made for Television) |
| 1987 | 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 | ||
| 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 | |
| 1998 | 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 | |
| 2001 | Knockaround Guys | Teddy Deserve | |
| 2002 | The Dancer Upstairs | Abimael Guzman | Also director |
| Ripley's Game | Tom Ripley | ||
| 2003 | Johnny English | Pascal Sauvage | |
| 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 | ||
| 2007 | Beowulf | Unferth | |
| 2008 | Afterwards | Garrett Goodrich | pre-production |
As director
- The Dancer Upstairs (2002)
References
- ^ "Croatian Art". Croationhistory.net. Retrieved 1995-09-02.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ "Seeing John Malkovich". Nicholaskralve.com. Retrieved 2002-06-15.
- ^ "Prisoners of War". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2006-03-31.
- ^ "John Malkovich". Yahoomovies. Retrieved 2001-05-14.
- ^ "A multitude of Malkovich". Filmguardian.co.uk. Retrieved 2001-09-30.
- ^ "Death Penalty Debate". lexingtonprosecutor.com. Retrieved 2000-06-16.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ "Right for the part PROFILE: JOHN MALKOVICH". AllStarzHollywood.com. Retrieved 2003-01-06.
- ^ "MP stunned at actor's outburst". News.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2002-05-04.
- ^ "Why Does Malkovich Want to Kill Me?". counterpunch.org. Retrieved 2002-05-13.
- ^ "George Galloway talkSPORT radio show: 8th July 2006". UKYouTube.com. Retrieved 2006-07-08.
- ^ "George Galloway talkSPORT radio show: 5th August 2006". UKYouTube.com. Retrieved 2006-08-05.
- ^ "George Galloway talkSPORT radio show: 19th May 2007". UKYouTube.com. Retrieved 2007-05-19.
- ^ "Life and taxes". Guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 2006-09-07.
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