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Christopher, Illinois, ABD 9 Aralık 1953

9 Aralık 1953'de Illinois'de doğan John Malkovich entelektüel bir ailede yetişti ve lisede atletizm ile ilgilendi. Daha sonra Eastern Illinois Üniversitesi'ne katıldı ve arkadaşı Gary Sinise ile Şikago'da Steppenwolf Tiyatrosunun kuruluşuna yardım etti. Yedi yıl sonra Sam Shepard'ın "True West" oyunuyla Obie ödülü kazandı. Daha sonra Dustin Hoffman'la Arthur Miller'ın "Death of a Salesman" oyununu canlandırdı. Aynı eserin televizyon uyarlamasındaki performansıyla Emmy ödülü kazandı. "Places in the Heart" filminde bir körü canlandırdı ve Akademi Ödülüne aday gösterildi. Aynı yıl "The Killing Fields"de başrol oynadı ve asıl büyük çıkışını "Dangerous Liaisons" filmindeki Vicomte de Valmont karakteriyle yaptı. Clint Eastwood'un "In the Line of Fire"ında cani bir suikastçi, Joseph Conrad'ın "Heart of Darkness" romanının televizyon uyarlamasında ise modern dünyadan vahşi doğasına kaçan albay Kurtz karakterlerini canlandırdı. "The Portrait of a Lady", "Mary Reilly" gibi seçkin filmlerde ve kendisini canlandırdığı Spike Jonze filmi "Being John Malkovich"deki performanslarıyla sinema dünyasının en büyük oyuncularından birisi olduğunu kanıtlayan Malkovich, tüm karakterlere yüklediği soğuk ve itici havasıyla tanınır. 

Biography

Early life

Malkovich was born in Christopher, Illinois, and is of Croatian, German, and Scottish ancestry.^[1][2][3] He grew up in Benton, Illinois, in a large house on South Main Street. His father, Daniel Malkovich, was a state conservation director and publisher of Outdoor Illinois, a conservation magazine. His mother, Joanne, owned the "Benton Evening News" (a local newspaper in Benton), as well as 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. He was an athlete in high school. He transferred to Illinois State University from Eastern Illinois University, where he only spent one semester with an interest in ecology, but he soon changed his major to Theatre.

[edit] Career

In 1976, Malkovich became a charter member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois. He moved to New York City, New York in 1983 and appeared in the play True West. He appeared on Broadway with Dustin Hoffman in Death of a Salesman (1984). Malkovich won an Emmy Award for this role when the play became a television movie. One of his first forays into film was as an extra alongside Terry Kinney, George Wendt, Joan Allen, and Laurie Metcalf in Robert Altman's A Wedding (1978). He made his film debut in Places in the Heart (1984) for which he was nominated for an Academy Award, for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. In 1994, he was nominated for another Oscar in the same category for In the Line of Fire (1993). Though he played the title role in the Charlie Kaufman-penned Being John Malkovich, he is playing a slight variation of himself, as indicated by the character's middle name of "Horatio". Malkovich has a cameo in the movie Adaptation.—also written by Kaufman—appearing as himself during the filming of Being John Malkovich. The Dancer Upstairs, Malkovich's directorial debut, was released in 2002.

John Malkovich was considered to join the cast of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation after William Petersen aka Gil Grissom leaves in the next series.

Malkovich also played a main role in the film adaptation of John Steinbeck's award winning novella, Of Mice and Men, in 1992 as Lennie alongside Gary Sinise as George.

On December 6, 2008, John Malkovich hosted Saturday Night Live with musical guest T.I.. Malkovich has hosted the show twice before, in 1989 and 1993.

[edit] Personal life

Malkovich was married to actress Glenne Headly, from 1982 to 1988. They divorced and Malkovich briefly dated Michelle Pfeiffer, his co-star in Dangerous Liaisons. He later met his long-term partner Nicoletta Peyran on the set of The Sheltering Sky in 1989. They have two children; Amandine (born 1990) and Lowey (born 1992). He is fluent in French and for nearly 10 years, Malkovich lived and worked in the theatre in southern France. In an interview on The Late Show With David Letterman, Malkovich said he had just spent five weeks in the Summer of 2008 living in France.^[6] Since 2003 he has also lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts.^[7]

Of the many people he has worked with, Malkovich is often associated with Gary Sinise, a fellow Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Illinois State University alum. Malkovich worked with Sinise by playing the role of Lennie Small in Of Mice and Men. 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 4, 2005, 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.

[edit] Political views

Politically, Malkovich has described himself as a Libertarian. He is an ardent supporter of the death penalty.^[8] When the 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."^[9] 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.^[10] Fisk reacted with outrage.^[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]

[edit] Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	Places in the Heart	Mr. Will	Academy Award nomination
	The Killing Fields	Al Rockoff
	True West	Lee
1985	Death of a Salesman	Biff Loman	(Made for Television)
	Eleni	Nick Gage
1986	Rocket to the Moon	Ben Stark	(Made for Television)
1987	The Glass Menagerie	Tom Wingfield
	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
	Jennifer Eight	Agent St. Anne
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)
	Beyond the Clouds	The director
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
	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
	Les Misérables (miniseries)	Javert
2001	Knockaround Guys	Teddy Deserve
2002	The Dancer Upstairs	Abimael Guzman	Also director
	Napoleon (mini \TVseries)	Charles Talleyrand
	Ripley's Game	Tom Ripley
2003	Johnny English	Pascal Sauvage
	Um Filme Falado	Captain John Walesa
	Adaptation.	Himself
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	short film
2007	Drunkboat	Mort
	Gardens of the Night	Michael
	In Transit	Pavlov
	Beowulf	Unferth
	Polis is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place	Himself	Independent Documentary
2008	The Mutant Chronicles	Constantine	Independent film
	Burn After Reading	Osborne Cox
	Changeling	Reverend Briegleb
	The Great Buck Howard	Buck Howard	awaiting release
	Disgrace	David Lurie	awaiting release
	Afterwards	Dr. Joseph Kay	awaiting release

[edit] Directing

• Johnny Loves Bobby (1989)

• The Dancer Upstairs (2002)

• Blazing Satchels (2008)

[edit] Producing

• The Accidental Tourist (1988) (executive producer)
• Ghost World (2001) (producer)
• The Dancer Upstairs (2002) (producer)
• The Libertine (2004) (producer)
• Kill the Poor (2006) (producer)
• Art School Confidential (2006) (producer)
• Juno (2007) (producer)

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