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John Gavin Malkovich (born
December 91953) is a twice
Academy Award-nominated
American actor,
producer and
director.
Biography
Early life
Malkovich was born in
Christopher, Illinois, of
Croatian descent on his father's side and of
Scottish and
German ancestry on his mother's. 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, Joe Anne, owned the
Benton Evening News (a local newspaper in Benton), as well as the
Outdoor Illinois. 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.
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 an 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's 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.
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 married Nicoletta Peyran, with whom he's two children. He is fluent in
French and for nearly 10 years, Malkovich lived and worked in the theatre in the south of
France. Since 2003 he's lived in
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Of the many people he's worked with, Malkovich is often associated with
Gary Sinise, a fellow
Steppenwolf Theatre Company alum.
Joan Allen was a fellow drama student at
Northern 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.
Political views
Politically, Malkovich has described himself as a
libertarian. He is a supporter of the
death penalty. 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've to wonder if he's kidding."
In the
United Kingdom in 2002 at the
Cambridge Union Society, when asked whom he'd most like to "fight to the death," he replied that he'd "rather just shoot" journalist
Robert Fisk and British MP
George Galloway. Fisk reacted with outrage. 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 won't 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."
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