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| John Malkovich | |
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 John Malkovich at the Grimme Online Award 2005 at Schloss Bensberg | |
| Born | John Gavin Malkovich December 9 1953 Christopher, Illinois |
| Years active | 1984 - present |
| Spouse(s) | Glenne Headly (1982-1988) Nicoletta Peyran (1989-) |
John Gavin Malkovich (born December 91953) is a two-time Academy Award-nominated American actor, producer and director.
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Malkovich was born in Christopher, Illinois, of Croatian descent on his father\'s side and of Scottish and German ancestry on his mother\'s.Croatian Art. Croationhistory.net. Retrieved on 1995-09-02.Seeing John Malkovich. Nicholaskralve.com. Retrieved on 2002-06-15.Prisoners of War. The Moscow Times. Retrieved on 2006-03-31. He grew up in Benton, Illinois in a very small house on South Main St. His father, Daniel Malkovich, was a state conservation director and publisher of Illinois Magazine, a conservation magazine. His mother, Joe Anne, owned the Benton Evening News (a local newspaper in Benton), as well as the Outdoor Illinois.John Malkovich. Yahoomovies. Retrieved on 2001-05-14.A multitude of Malkovich. Filmguardian.co.uk. Retrieved on 2001-09-30. 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.
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 has two children. He is fluent in French. For nearly 10 years, Malkovich has been living in the south of France, where he is also active on the stage. Most recently, he directed a French adaptation of Zach Helm\'s play Good Canary, presented at the Théâtre Comédia in Paris.
Of the many people he has worked with, Malkovich is often associated with Gary Sinise, a fellow Steppenwolf Theatre Company alum. 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.
Politically, Malkovich has described himself as a libertarian. He is a supporter of the death penalty.Death Penalty Debate. lexingtonprosecutor.com. Retrieved on 2000-06-16. 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."Right for the part PROFILE: JOHN MALKOVICH. AllStarzHollywood.com. Retrieved on 2003-01-06.
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.MP stunned at actor\'s outburst. News.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved on 2002-05-04. Fisk reacted with outrage.Why Does Malkovich Want to Kill Me?. counterpunch.org. Retrieved on 2002-05-13. 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."Life and taxes. Guardian.co.uk. Retrieved on 2006-09-07.
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| NAME | Malkovich, John |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Malkovich, John Gavin |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Academy Award-nominated American actor, producer and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 9, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Christopher, Illinois |
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