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John Gavin Malkovich is an American actor. His accolades include a Primetime Emmy Award and nominations for two Academy Awards, two Actor Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Laurence Olivier Award, and three Golden Globe Awards.
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Born 9 December 1953 · Q172261
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I just said it wasn’t my thing, sorry. It was someone I was fond of and I liked. So life went on. I did transfer schools, but not really because of that. The Weinstein situation is very different. It was transactional. It’s terrible for women, but it’s horrific also just for the idea of work.
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“I just said it wasn’t my thing, sorry. It was someone I was fond of and I liked. So life went on. I did transfer schools, but not really because of that. The Weinstein situation is very different. It was transactional. It’s terrible for women, but it’s horrific also just for the idea of work.”
“s actions in the Palestinian territories and criticised the west”
“I mean, most environmentalists in America in the 1950s - of which there were hardly any - were not... paratroopers. But my father was in the 82nd Airborne, it was just like that.”
“but it was rarely what we were studying”
Croatian Minister of the Interior Davor Božinović announced that Malkovich had been granted Croatian citizenship
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The Minister of the Interior of the Republic of Croatia, Davor Božinović, granted Malkovich Croatian citizenship
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Malkovich appeared in the Croatian National Tourist Board's promotional short film I Hear It's Beautiful
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The Guardian: Mr Blake at Your Service review – John Malkovich does worst French accent ever in baffling comedy misfire
The Guardian: Opus review – John Malkovich plays an evil pop star in a silly horror dud
Malkovich revealed in an interview that after having a DNA test he discovered that he was 43% Romanian
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Malkovich said that he "stopped doing fashion about six, seven years ago" but still enjoys seeing collections by "the great fabric designers"
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The Guardian: John Malkovich on best friend Julian Sands: ‘Jules was such a storyteller, and so, so funny’
The Guardian: Shattered review – John Malkovich has bizarre cameo in oddball erotic thriller
The Guardian: The Survivalist review – John Malkovich drops in on bleak vision of a hellish postviral US
The Guardian: John Malkovich as eerie identical twins: Sandro Miller's best photograph
It was announced that Malkovich had been cast as Dr
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Malkovich performed in London's West End at the Garrick Theatre, starring in David Mamet's new play Bitter Wheat
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Malkovich appeared in a three-part adaptation of Agatha Christie's The A
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Appeared in some humorous Super Bowl commercials portraying himself attempting to gain control of the johnmalkovich
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Michael Stürminger directed Malkovich in Just Call me God – the final speech, in which he played a Third World dictator called Satur Dinam Cha, who is about to be overthrown
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Released album “RESOUND Beethoven, Vol. 3: Egmont”.
Released album “You Just Have to Laugh, Vol. 1 ‘The Unmaking Of’”.
Appeared in the music video for Eminem's single "Phenomenal"
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The photographer Sandro Miller recreated 35 iconic portraits of John Malkovich as the subject, in a project called Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich: Homage to Photographer Master
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Was the voice actor of the villainous Dave the Octopus in Penguins of Madagascar
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Malkovich was walking in Toronto when a 77-year-old man named Jim Walpole tripped and accidentally cut his throat on a piece of scaffolding
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Directed a production of a newly adapted French-language version of Les Liaisons Dangereuses for the Théâtre de l'Atelier in Paris
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Malkovich stated in a 2011 interview that he is not a "political person" and that he does not have "an ideology", revealing that he had not voted since George McGovern lost his presidential run in 1972.
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“stopped doing fashion about six, seven years ago”
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Directed Julian Sands in A Celebration of Harold Pinter in the Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh, for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
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Malkovich was approached and then cast for the role of the Marvel Comics villain Vulture in the un-produced Spider-Man 4
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Through 2012 throughout Europe, North America and South America
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Whether having spiritual beliefs was necessary to portray a spiritual character, he said, "No, I'd say not
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Directed by Austrian director Michael Sturminger, he portrayed the story of Jack Unterweger in a performance for one actor, two sopranos, and period orchestra entitled Seduction and Despair, which premiered at Barnum Hal
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Malkovich directed in French a theater production of Good Canary written by Zach Helm, with Cristiana Realli and Vincent Elbaz in the leading roles, at the Théâtre Libre in Paris
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And produced their first vintage in 2011
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And have since lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Which was subsequently covered in the international press, and its second clothing line, "Technobohemian", in 2011
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When asked whom he would most like to fight to the death, Malkovich replied that he would "rather just shoot" journalist Robert Fisk and politician George Galloway, stating that Galloway was not honest
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Film director Michael Cimino had also approached Malkovich to star in his never filmed 3-hour long epic of André Malraux's Man's Fate, alongside Johnny Depp, Uma Thurman, Daniel Day-Lewis and Alain Delon
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Malkovich was approached to play Green Goblin in Spider-Man (2002), but he passed due to scheduling conflicts and Willem Dafoe was cast in the role
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Awarded Donostia Award (1998).
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Appeared in the Steppenwolf production of A Slip of the Tongue, which later played in Shaftesbury Avenue in London, directed by Simon Stokes
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Appeared in period costume along with Hugh Laurie in the music video for "Walking on Broken Glass" by Annie Lennox
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Recited, in Croatian, verses of the Croatian national anthem Lijepa naša domovino (Our Beautiful Homeland) in Nenad Bach's song "Can We Go Higher
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After meeting her on the set of The Sheltering Sky, on which she was the second assistant director
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The couple divorced following his affair with Michelle Pfeiffer
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Starred in Steven Spielberg's war drama Empire of the Sun as Basie, a captured American sailor
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for Death of a Salesman (1986).
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Awarded Theatre World Award (1983).
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To appear in a Steppenwolf production of the Sam Shepard play True West directed by Sinise, for which he won an Obie Award
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Malkovich, along with Joan Allen, Gary Sinise, and Glenne Headly, became a charter member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago
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Malkovich enrolled at Eastern Illinois University
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Born 1953-12-09.
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