John Malkovich, birthday





John Malkovich's debut on the professional stage took place in 1978 in the Chicago theater troupe Steppenwolf Theatre. They played Sam Shepard's play "Curse of the Starving Class" in the Goodman Theatre. For seven years, Malkovich has worked in many different places and at the same time continued to play in the theater - took part in more than 50 productions. In 1984, he acted on Broadway in the play "Death of a Salesman" together with Dustin Hoffman. While working on Broadway John Malkovich debuted in cinema in the film "Places in the Heart," for which he was nominated for the "Oscar».
One of his best roles in movies became Viscount de Valmont in the adaptation of the classic novel "Dangerous Liaisons" (1988). Soon the actor invited Bernardo Bertolucci for the lead role in his film "The Sheltering Sky" (1990), and then he played ingenious killer thriller Wolfgang Petersen's "In the Line of Fire." For this work, the actor won the second nomination for "Oscar". In 1999, he played himself in the sensational fantasy "Being John Malkovich." In 2008, starred in the Coen brothers comedy "Burn After Reading." Despite the meteoric career in film, John Malkovich continues to serve as a theater actor.



John Malkovich was married to actress Glenn Hadley from 1982 to 1988, after which they divorced because of the novel actor c Michelle Pfeiffer. Soon on the set of the film "The Sheltering Sky" Nicoletta Peyran he met who worked there the second assistant director. They have two children - daughter Amandayn (b. 1990) and son Lowe (b. 1992).
Actor perfectly speaks French, as ten years he lived in the south of France and worked in local theater. He and his family fled the country in 2003 and moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where they live to this day.
Malkovich has lost millions of dollars when invested in the Ponzi scheme organized by Bernard Madoff













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