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John Malkovich is a leading figure of both stage and screen, as an actor, director and producer. Long one of cinema's most sought after actors, Malkovich has worked with many of the world's leading directors, in such films as: Liliana Cavani's Ripley's Game, Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich, Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady, Wolfgang Petersen's In the Line of Fire, Gary Sinise's Of Mice and Men, Bernardo Bertolucci's The Sheltering Sky, Stephen Frears' Dangerous Liaisons, Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun, Paul Newman's The Glass Menagerie, Roland Joffé's The Killing Fields, and Robert Benton's

Places in the Heart. He has was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1985 for Places in the Heart and again in 1994 for In the Line of Fire. His performance in Places in the Heart also earned him the Best Supporting Actor Award from the National Society of Film Critics and the National Board of Review. In 1999, he won New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor for Being John Malkovich.

In 1998, John Malkovich joined producing partners Lianne Halfon and Russ Smith in forming the production company Mr Mudd, whose first production was Terry Zwigoff's celebrated Ghost World. Malkovich made his feature film directing debut with The Dancer Upstairs (2003), starring Javier Bardem, in 2003.

Malkovich is a longstanding member of the groundbreaking Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago. Between 1976 and 1982 he acted in, directed or designed sets for more than fifty Steppenwolf productions. Malkovich's debut on the New York stage in the Steppenwolf production of Sam Shepard's True West earned him an Obie Award.

Malkovich has also acted in several acclaimed television productions and won an Emmy Award for his performance in Death of a Salesman, co-starring Dustin Hoffman. He also won Emmy nominations for the miniseries Napoleon and RKO 281. Currently being seen in The Libertine, Malkovich recently played the title role in Klimt, and is currently filming Beowulf for director Robert Zemeckis.

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