JOHN MALKOVICH

'John Gavin Malkovich' (born December 91953) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, producer and director.

Contents

Biography

Early life

Personal life

Political views

Filmography

Movies

As director

References

External links

Biography

Early life

Malkovich was born in Benton, 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. John Malkovich ^[4] 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.^[5] 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."^[6]
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.^[7] Fisk reacted with outrage.^[8] Galloway brings it up frequently on his radio show with great amusement. ^[9][10][11] 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."^[12]

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
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
	''	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	''Grendel''	Unferth
2008	''Afterwards''	Garrett Goodrich	''pre-production

As director

★ ''The Dancer Upstairs'' (2002)

References

1. Croatian Art
2. Seeing John Malkovich
3. Prisoners of War
4. A multitude of Malkovich
5. Death Penalty Debate
6. ''Right for the part PROFILE: JOHN MALKOVICH''
7. MP stunned at actor's outburst
8. Why Does Malkovich Want to Kill Me?
9. George Galloway talkSPORT radio show: 8th July 2006
10. George Galloway talkSPORT radio show: 5th August 2006
11. George Galloway talkSPORT radio show: 19th May 2007
12. Life and taxes

External links

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★ Fisk:Why does John Malkovich want to kill me?

★ Profile: John Malkovich

★ Life and taxes

★ Finch and Partners (John's Management in the UK)

★ John's official clothing design web site

★ Photographs of John Malkovich