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Biography #2 (for Art School Confidential)
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'sPlaces 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.
Bio courtesy Sony Classics for "Art School Confidential" (20-Nov-2006)
Biography #3 (for Knockaround Guys)
John Malkovich won the National Society of Film Critics Awards for best supporting actor for his first two motion pictures - Robert Benton's Places In The Heart (his feature film debut which also earned him his first Academy Award nomination) and Roland Joffe's The Killing Fields. He also earned Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations for his work in Wolfgang Peterson's In The Line of Fire, opposite Clint Eastwood.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.
Bio courtesy New Line Cinema for "Knockaround Guys" (04-Sep-2002)
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