John Malkovich Biography (3)
Malkovich's film credits cover a wide variety of roles in some of the most noted and eclectic features in the last 15 years. They include: Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun, Peter Yates' Eleni, Paul Newman's The Glass Menagerie, and Stephen Frears' Dangerous Liaisons, opposite Glenn Close, Michelle Pfeiffer and Uma Thurman. Also The Accidental Tourist, with William Hurt and Kathleen Turner, Bernardo Bertolucci's The Sheltering Sky, Queens Logic, The Object of Beauty, Jennifer Eight, Woody Allen's Shadows and Fog and Of Mice and Men, directed by and co-starring Gary Sinise.
More recently he starred as a fantasy version of himself in Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich, with John Cusack and Cameron Diaz, and in Luc Besson's The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, as well as in Manoel de Oliveira's The Convent, Michelangelo Antonioni's Beyond The Clouds, Volker Schlondorff's The Ogre and Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady.
Upcoming films include Borgia, Johnny English and Ripley's Game.
Knockaround Guys reunites Malkovich with writer-directors Brian Koppelman and David Levien, who wrote Rounders, the 1998 feature in which he starred opposite Matt Damon and Edward Norton.
Born in Christopher, Illinois, Malkovich co-founded Chicago's famed Steppenwolf Theatre with his friend, actor Gary Sinise. Between 1976 and 1982, he acted in, directed or designed the sets for more than 50 Steppenwolf productions. He then made his New York stage debut in Steppenwolf's legendary production of Sam Shepard's True West and went on to star in a Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, with Dustin Hoffman, receiving an Emmy award for his performance in a subsequent telefilm adaptation.
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