John Malkovich. Birthday:  Dec 9, 1. Birthplace. Christopher, Illinois, USA. One of the leading actors of his generation and an important figure in world cinema, John Malkovich made the term "icy calm" his trademark. After winning acclaim for his characterization of the scheming Vicomte de Valmont in Dangerous Liaisons, he became associated with a series of roles that, to put it plainly, essentially required him to be an evil bastard. The product of a large, highly intellectual family, Malkovich was born December 9, 1. Christopher, IL. Initially a portly youth, he underwent a self- imposed physical transformation, emerging as a star high school athlete. He went on to attend Eastern Illinois University, where he originally aspired to be a professional environmentalist.

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With his friend Gary Sinise, Malkovich helped co- found Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre in 1. Seven years later, he won an Obie award when the Steppenwolf production of Sam Shepard's True West was brought to New York.

He next appeared on Broadway with Dustin Hoffman in the 1. Death of a Salesman; when it was transformed into a television movie a year later, Malkovich won an Emmy for his efforts. While he was working on Broadway, he made his film debut, playing a blind transient in Places in the Heart (1. Oscar nomination.

He also had a starring role in The Killing Fields the same year. Although certainly capable of projecting warmth and pathos, Malkovich became best- known for his ice- water- in- the- veins roles. In addition to praise for his performance in Dangerous Liaisons, Malkovich won recognition - - and Oscar and Golden Globe nominations - - for his portrayal of the chameleon- like political assassin in Wolfgang Peterson's In the Line of Fire (1. Other sinister Malkovich characterizations include Kurtz in the 1. TV- movie version of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, the secretive Dr.

Jekyll in Mary Reilly (1. Isabel Archer's dastardly husband in The Portrait of a Lady (1. In 1. 99. 9, Malkovich played what was undoubtedly his most unusual role - - himself - - in Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich. Both the subject of the film and one of its stars, he had the surreal duty of letting the film's other characters into his mind, something many audience members had no doubt been dreaming of doing for years. The film provided Malkovich's career with a sort of popular resurgence, and the following year found him essaying the role of a wild eyed F. W. Murnau in the dark horror comedy Shadow of the Vampire.

The second feature by experimental filmmaker E. ELias Mehrige, Shadow of the Vampire took a magic realism approach to documenting the production of Murnau's legendary 1. Nosferatu. In the years that followed Malkovich continued his trend of alternating roles in high- profile Hollywood fare with more artistically gratifying foreign films, and after turning up in the German miniseries Les Miserables (2.

Je rentre a la maison Malkovich turned up opposite Vin Diesel in the box office flash Knockaround Guys (2. In 2. 00. 2 Malkovich picked up where Matt Damon left off in the thriller Ripley's Game before traveling back in time for the historical adventure drama Napoleon. After cracking up international audiences in Johnny English (2. Malkovich take on the role of a Stanley Kubrick imposter in the fact based Colour Me Kubrick. After a string of decidedly small films, Malkovich surfaced in 2. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Based on the cult novel by Douglas Adams, the picture cast Malkovich as an alien guru and gave him a chance to flex some of his sillier chops. Subsequent roles in Art School Confidential, the Coen Brother's Burn After Reading, and Jonah Hex offered a bit of levity between performances in more serious- minded dramas like Disgrace and Secretariat, and on the heels of a memorable comic performance as an unhinged former assassin in the big budget action comedy Red, Malkovich could be spotted amidst an explosion.