John Malkovich
{{short description|American actor (born 1953)}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1953|12|9}}
| birth_place = Christopher, Illinois, U.S.
| alma_mater = William Esper Studio
| occupation = Actor
| works = Full list
| years_active = 1976–present
| spouse = {{marriage|Glenne Headly|1982|1988|end=divorced}}
| partner = Nicoletta Peyran (1989–present)
| children = 2
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John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953){{Cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/facts/John-Malkovich |department=Entertainment & Pop Culture > Actors |title=John Malkovich: Facts & Related Content |website=Encyclopædia Britannica}} is an American actor. He is the recipient of several accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards.
Malkovich started his career as a charter member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago in 1976. He moved to New York City, acting in a Steppenwolf production of the Sam Shepard play True West (1980). He made his Broadway debut as Biff in the revival of the Arthur Miller play Death of a Salesman (1984). He directed the Harold Pinter play The Caretaker (1986), and acted in Lanford Wilson's Burn This (1987).
Malkovich has received two Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nominations for his performances in Places in the Heart (1984) and In the Line of Fire (1993). Other films include The Killing Fields (1984), Empire of the Sun (1987), Dangerous Liaisons (1988), Of Mice and Men (1992), Con Air (1997), Rounders (1998), Being John Malkovich (1999), Shadow of the Vampire (2000), Ripley's Game (2002), Johnny English (2003), Burn After Reading (2008), and Red (2010). He has also produced films such as Ghost World (2001), Juno (2007), and The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012).
For his work on television he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for Death of a Salesman (1985). His other Emmy-nominated roles were for portraying Herman J. Mankiewicz in RKO 281 (1999) and Charles Talleyrand in Napoléon (2002). Other television roles include in Crossbones (2014), Billions (2018–19), The New Pope (2020), and Space Force (2020–2022).
Early life and education
Malkovich was born in Christopher, Illinois, on December 9, 1953. He grew up in Benton, Illinois. His father, Daniel Leon Malkovich, was a state conservation director, who published the conservation magazine Outdoor Illinois. His mother, Joe Anne (née Choisser), owned the Benton Evening News daily newspaper and Outdoor Illinois.{{cite news|last=Wood|first=Gaby|url=http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,6737,560488,00.html|title=A multitude of Malkovich|work=The Guardian|date=September 30, 2001|access-date=December 22, 2008|location=London, UK|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012132014/http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,6737,560488,00.html|archive-date=October 12, 2007|url-status=live}}{{cite news|title=Joe-Anne Malkovich obituary|work=Benton Evening News|date=March 24, 2009|url=http://www.bentoneveningnews.com/obituaries/x1331540951/JOE-ANNE-MALKOVICH|access-date=March 22, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707224218/http://www.bentoneveningnews.com/obituaries/x1331540951/JOE-ANNE-MALKOVICH|archive-date=July 7, 2011|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.randolphcountyheraldtribune.com/obituaries/x1467315465/Daniel-Ewing-Malkovich-59|title=Daniel Ewing Malkovich, 59|work=The Randolph County Herald Tribune|access-date=March 9, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120427232805/http://www.randolphcountyheraldtribune.com/obituaries/x1467315465/Daniel-Ewing-Malkovich-59|archive-date=April 27, 2012|url-status=dead}} He grew up with an older brother, Danny, and three younger sisters, Amanda, Rebecca, and Melissa. In a May 2020 interview, he revealed that Melissa is his only surviving sibling.{{Cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/may/21/john-malkovich-i-had-a-lot-of-violence-growing-up-but-so-what |title=John Malkovich: 'I had a lot of violence growing up, but so what?' |website=TheGuardian.com |date=May 21, 2020 |access-date=May 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200524181038/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/may/21/john-malkovich-i-had-a-lot-of-violence-growing-up-but-so-what |archive-date=May 24, 2020 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.dailyregister.com/article/20110218/news/302189949 |title=Longtime newspaperman Danny Malkovich dies Friday |date=February 18, 2011 |access-date=May 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200618042916/http://www.dailyregister.com/article/20110218/news/302189949 |archive-date=June 18, 2020 |url-status=live }}{{cite web|url=http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/john-malkovich/bio/158118|title=John Malkovich biography|work=TV Guide|access-date=August 14, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150713085128/http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/john-malkovich/bio/158118|archive-date=July 13, 2015|url-status=live}} His paternal grandparents were Croatian immigrants from the vicinity of Ozalj;{{cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/25/1050777404749.html|title=Being John Malkovich|date=April 26, 2003|work=The Age|quote=I think we were like that because we are Croats (on his father's side).|access-date=November 6, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016104615/http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/25/1050777404749.html|archive-date=October 16, 2015|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last=Lam|first=Sophie|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/john-malkovich-my-life-in-travel-10122120.html|title=John Malkovich: My life in travel|date=March 20, 2015|work=The Independent|access-date=November 18, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329025147/https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/john-malkovich-my-life-in-travel-10122120.html|quote=My grandparents were Croatian. I have been there several times and I like it, but I don't know it well, only Zagreb. |archive-date=March 29, 2019|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.croatianhistory.net/etf/art.html#malkov|title=Croatian Art|work=Croatianhistory.net|date=September 2, 1995|access-date=December 22, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081218020821/http://www.croatianhistory.net/etf/art.html#malkov|archive-date=December 18, 2008|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://nicholaskralev.com/2010/02/27/seeing-john-malkovich|title=Seeing John Malkovich|last=Kralev|first=Nicholas|date=June 15, 2002|work=NicholasKralev.com|format=reprint|access-date=December 22, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110823071138/http://nicholaskralev.com/2010/02/27/seeing-john-malkovich/|quote= Even though of Croatian and Scottish descent, Malkovich had a relatively typical Midwestern upbringing in the small Illinois town of Benton, some 300 miles south of Chicago. |archive-date=August 23, 2011|url-status=live}} his other ancestry includes English, Scottish, French, and German descent. Malkovich attended Logan Grade School, Webster Junior High School, and Benton Consolidated High School. During his high-school years, he appeared in various plays and the musical Carousel. He was also active in a folk gospel group, with whom he sang at churches and community events. As a member of a local summer theater project, he co-starred in Jean-Claude van Itallie's America Hurrah in 1972.{{cn|date=March 2025}}
After graduating from high school in 1972, Malkovich enrolled at Eastern Illinois University. He then transferred to Illinois State University, where he majored in theater, but dropped out.{{Cite web|url=https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2006/07/illinois_hall_o_12.html|title=Illinois Hall of Fame: John Malkovich|website=Illinois Review}} He studied acting at the William Esper Studio.{{Cite web|date=2001-09-19|title=Where Did They Study?|url=https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/study-3-37556/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200704162951/https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/study-3-37556/|archive-date=July 4, 2020|access-date=2020-07-07|website=Backstage}}
Career
In 1976, Malkovich, along with Joan Allen, Gary Sinise, and Glenne Headly, became a charter member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago. He moved to New York City in 1980 to appear in a Steppenwolf production of the Sam Shepard play True West directed by Sinise, for which he won an Obie Award.{{cite web|url=https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800019625/bio|title=John Malkovich biography|work=Yahoo! Movies|access-date=December 22, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100113141738/http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800019625/bio|archive-date=January 13, 2010|url-status=live}} One of his first film roles was as an extra alongside Allen, Terry Kinney, George Wendt, and Laurie Metcalf in Robert Altman's film A Wedding (1978). In early 1982, he appeared in A Streetcar Named Desire with Chicago's Wisdom Bridge Theatre. Malkovich then directed a Steppenwolf co-production, the 1984 revival of Lanford Wilson's Balm in Gilead, for which he received a second Obie Award and a Drama Desk Award. Other Steppenwolf productions in which Malkovich has appeared include: The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, directed by H. E. Baccus (1979); Burn This by Lanford Wilson, directed by Marshall W. Mason (1987); and The Libertine by Stephen Jeffreys, directed by Terry Johnson (1996). He made his feature-film debut as Sally Field's blind boarder Mr. Will in Places in the Heart (1984). For his portrayal of Mr. Will, Malkovich received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He also portrayed Al Rockoff in Roland Joffe's epic film The Killing Fields (1984).
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His Broadway debut that year was as Biff in Death of a Salesman alongside Dustin Hoffman as Willy. Malkovich won an Emmy Award{{cite web|url=http://www.emmys.com/celebrities/john-malkovich|title=John Malkovich Emmy Nominated|publisher=Academy of Television Arts & Sciences|access-date=March 9, 2012}} for this role when the play was adapted for television by CBS in 1985. He continued to have steady work in films such as Empire of the Sun, directed by Steven Spielberg, and the film adaptation of Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie (both 1987) directed by Paul Newman (who appeared in the film) and Joanne Woodward. He then starred in Making Mr. Right (also 1987), directed by Susan Seidelman.
Malkovich gained significant critical and popular acclaim when he portrayed the sinister and sensual Valmont in the film Dangerous Liaisons (1988), a film adaptation of the stage play Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Christopher Hampton,{{cite web|url=http://www.eurochannel.com/en/The-Paradox-of-John-Malkovich-Pierre-Francois-Limbosch-France.html|title=The Paradox of John Malkovich|author=Eurochannel|work=Eurochannel: The European TV channel|access-date=June 16, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170812213635/http://www.eurochannel.com/en/The-Paradox-of-John-Malkovich-Pierre-Francois-Limbosch-France.html|archive-date=August 12, 2017|url-status=live}} who had adapted it from the 1782 novel of the same title by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. He later reprised this role for the music video of "Walking on Broken Glass" by Annie Lennox.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Og0EAAAAMBAJ&q=walking%20on%20broken%20glass%20hugh%20laurie%20john%20malkovich&pg=PA26|title=Billboard 7 December 2002|access-date=2 January 2022|date=7 December 2002}} He played Port Moresby in The Sheltering Sky (1990), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and appeared in Shadows and Fog (1991), directed by Woody Allen. In 1990, he recited, in Croatian, verses of the Croatian national anthem Lijepa naša domovino (Our Beautiful Homeland) in Nenad Bach's song "Can We Go Higher?"[http://www.croatianhistory.net/etf/art.html#malkov Croatianhistory.net: John Malkovich] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070530120558/http://www.croatianhistory.net/etf/art.html#malkov |date=May 30, 2007 }}. Retrieved August 15, 2011.
Malkovich starred in the 1992 film adaptation of John Steinbeck's novella Of Mice and Men as Lennie alongside Gary Sinise as George. He was nominated for another Oscar, again in the Best Supporting Actor category, for In the Line of Fire (1993). He was the narrator for the film Alive (1993) and starred in The Man in the Iron Mask (1998). Malkovich has hosted three episodes of the NBC sketch show Saturday Night Live. The first occasion was in January 1989 with musical guest Anita Baker, the second in October 1993 with musical guest Billy Joel (and special appearance by former cast member Jan Hooks), and the third in December 2008 with musical guest T.I. with Swizz Beatz (and special appearances by Justin Timberlake, Molly Sims and Jamie-Lynn Sigler).
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Malkovich was directed for the second time (after Dangerous Liaisons) by Stephen Frears in Mary Reilly (1996), a new adaptation of the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde tale, co-starring Julia Roberts.{{Cite web|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/mary-reilly-star-defies-easy-expectations|title='Mary Reilly' star defies easy expectations | Interviews | Roger Ebert|website=www.rogerebert.com|date=December 14, 2012 |access-date=August 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180901113410/https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/mary-reilly-star-defies-easy-expectations|archive-date=September 1, 2018|url-status=live}} Malkovich also appeared in The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999), directed by Luc Besson, playing the French king-to-be Charles VII. Though he played the title role in the Charlie Kaufman-penned Being John Malkovich (1999), he played a slight variation of himself, as indicated by the character's middle name of "Horatio".
Malkovich's directorial film debut, The Dancer Upstairs, was released in 2002. That same year Malkovich made a cameo appearance in Adaptation. He played Patricia Highsmith's antihero Tom Ripley in Ripley's Game (also 2002), the second film adaptation of Highsmith's 1974 novel, the first being Wim Wenders' 1977 film The American Friend.{{cite magazine|first=Anthony|last=Lane|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/02/16/the-creepiest|title=The Creepiest|magazine=Vanity Fair|location=New York City|date=February 16, 2004|access-date=March 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170803195050/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/02/16/the-creepiest|archive-date=August 3, 2017|url-status=live}}
Malkovich's other film roles include The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), Eragon (2006), Beowulf, Colour Me Kubrick (both 2007), Changeling (2008), Red, Secretariat (both 2010), Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011), and Red 2 (2013).{{Cite web|title=John Malkovich|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000518/|access-date=2021-04-16|website=IMDb}} In 2000, 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.{{Cite web |last=KJB |date=2000-11-03 |title=It's Official: Malkovich Passes on Green Goblin |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2000/11/03/its-official-malkovich-passes-on-green-goblin |access-date=2023-01-18 |website=IGN}} In 2001, 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.{{cite web|title=Michael Cimino Discovers 'Man's Fate' in Shanghai|url=https://www.homemediamagazine.com/news/michael-cimino-discovers-mans-fate-shanghai-1699|date=September 4, 2001|publisher=Home Media Magazine|access-date=February 8, 2023}} In 2009, Malkovich was approached and then cast for the role of the Marvel Comics villain Vulture in the unproduced Spider-Man 4.{{Cite web |last=George |first=Joe |date=2022-05-02 |title=Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 4 Would Have Cast Bruce Campbell as Fan-Favorite Villain |url=https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/sam-raimi-bruce-campbell-mysterio-spider-man-4/ |access-date=2023-01-18 |website=Den of Geek}}
Malkovich played the title role in the film The Great Buck Howard (2008), a role inspired by mentalist the "Amazing Kreskin". Colin Hanks co-starred and his father, Tom Hanks, appeared as his on-screen father. In November 2009, Malkovich appeared in an advertisement for Nespresso with fellow actor George Clooney. He portrayed Quentin Turnbull in the film adaptation of Jonah Hex (2010).{{cite web |last=Creepy |first=Uncle |date=June 10, 2010 |title=Dozens of Images from Jonah Hex |url=http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/37948/dozens-images-jonah-hex |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111074623/http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/37948/dozens-images-jonah-hex |archive-date=January 11, 2012 |access-date=March 9, 2012 |publisher=Dread Central}} Malkovich in 2014 was the voice actor of Dave the Octopus in Penguins of Madagascar.
In 2008, Malkovich directed in French a theater production of {{ill|Good Canary|fr}} written by Zach Helm, with Cristiana Realli and Vincent Elbaz in the leading roles, at the Comédia théâtre in Paris. Malkovich won the Molière Award for best director for it. He wrote and acted in The Infernal Comedy – Confessions of a Serial Killer, directed by {{ill|Michael Sturminger|de}}, that toured many countries and venues between 2010 and 2013, including at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, Germany, in May 2010.{{cite web |date=January 26, 2009 |title=THE INFERNAL COMEDY / 2009 |url=https://www.sturminger.com/works/the-infernal-comedy/#1497860874340-f0b97418-abcaa674-0440 |website=Michael Sturminger}} This was an operatic production, about the life of the Austrian serial killer Jack Unterweger. In 2011, he directed Julian Sands in A Celebration of Harold Pinter in the Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh, for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/news/malkovich-and-pinter-an-unlikely-alliance-2295509.html?origin=internalSearch|title=Malkovich and Pinter: an unlikely alliance|newspaper=The Independent|date=June 10, 2011|access-date=April 29, 2012|author=Brown, Jonathan|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181129025835/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/news/malkovich-and-pinter-an-unlikely-alliance-2295509.html?origin=internalSearch|archive-date=November 29, 2018|url-status=live}}{{cite magazine|url=http://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/event/228722-julian-sands-in-a-celebration-of-harold-pinter|title=Julian Sands in a Celebration of Harold Pinter|magazine=The List|date=August 2011|access-date=April 29, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415114750/http://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/event/228722-julian-sands-in-a-celebration-of-harold-pinter/|archive-date=April 15, 2012|url-status=dead}} In 2012, he directed a production of a newly adapted French-language version of Les Liaisons Dangereuses for the Théâtre de l'Atelier in Paris.{{cite web|url=http://lesliaisonsdangereuses.fr|title=Les liaisons Dangereuses|publisher=Lesliaisonsdangereuses.fr|date=June 30, 2012|access-date=January 24, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201204856/http://lesliaisonsdangereuses.fr/|archive-date=February 1, 2014|url-status=live}} The production had a limited engagement in July 2013 at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City.{{cite web|url=http://www.lincolncenterfestival.org/current-season/les-liaisons-dangereuses|title=Lincoln Center Festival – Jewels|publisher=lincolncenterfestival.org|access-date=June 16, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170206022040/http://www.lincolncenterfestival.org/current-season/les-liaisons-dangereuses|archive-date=February 6, 2017|url-status=live}}
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He returned to theatre, directing Good Canary in Spanish in Mexico, then in English at the Rose Theater in London in 2016. Ilan Goodman, Harry Lloyd, and Freya Mavor were in the cast. Malkovich won the Milton Schulman Award for the best director at the Evening Standard Theater Awards in 2016.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/sep/25/good-canary-review-john-malkovich-rose-kingston|title=Good Canary review – the real star is John Malkovich's direction|first=Susannah|last=Clapp|author-link=Susannah Clapp |newspaper=The Observer |date=September 25, 2016|via=www.theguardian.com|access-date=August 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180901113406/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/sep/25/good-canary-review-john-malkovich-rose-kingston|archive-date=September 1, 2018|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.rosetheatrekingston.org/news/john-malkovich-scoops-best-director-award-for-good-canary|title=Rose Theatre Kingston|website=www.rosetheatrekingston.org|access-date=August 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180901113345/https://www.rosetheatrekingston.org/news/john-malkovich-scoops-best-director-award-for-good-canary|archive-date=September 1, 2018|url-status=live}} He appeared in Just Call Me God in Hamburg in March 2017. Malkovich wrote and starred in a movie called 100 Years (2016), directed by Robert Rodriguez. The movie is locked in a vault in the south of France, not to be seen before 2115.{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/05/06/john-malkovich-made-a-movie-youll-never-see-and-its-not-the-only-one/|title=John Malkovich made a movie you'll never see. And it's not the only one.|author=Stephanie Merry (Book World)|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=August 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180912133231/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/05/06/john-malkovich-made-a-movie-youll-never-see-and-its-not-the-only-one/|archive-date=September 12, 2018|url-status=live}}
In 2018, Malkovich appeared in a three-part adaptation of Agatha Christie's The A.B.C. Murders co-starring Rupert Grint for BBC television, playing the role of fictional Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2018/abc-murders|title=BBC - All-star cast announced for new BBC One Agatha Christie thriller The ABC Murders - Media Centre|website=BBC|access-date=October 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181112123655/https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2018/abc-murders|archive-date=November 12, 2018|url-status=live}} In 2019, Malkovich performed in London's West End at the Garrick Theatre, starring in David Mamet's new play Bitter Wheat.{{cite web|url=https://www.ikonlondonmagazine.com/john-malkovich-is-coming-to-west-end/|title=John Malkovich Is Coming To West End|publisher=Ikon London Magazine|first1=Tamara|last1=Orlova-Alvarez|first2=Joe|last2=Alvarez|date=January 30, 2019|access-date=January 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190130220541/https://www.ikonlondonmagazine.com/john-malkovich-is-coming-to-west-end/|archive-date=January 30, 2019|url-status=live}} He also starred as the title character in the HBO drama series The New Pope (2020).{{Cite web|url=https://www.hbo.com/the-new-pope|title=The New Pope - Official Website for the HBO Series|website=HBO|access-date=January 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200114125921/https://www.hbo.com/the-new-pope|archive-date=January 14, 2020|url-status=live}} On September 26, 2019, it was announced that Malkovich had been cast as Dr. Adrian Mallory in the Netflix comedy series Space Force.{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/john-malkovich-ben-schwartz-join-steve-carell-netflixs-space-force-1243752|title=John Malkovich, Ben Schwartz Join Steve Carell in Netflix's 'Space Force'|last=Porter|first=Rick|work=The Hollywood Reporter|date=September 26, 2019|access-date=September 26, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200601225236/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/john-malkovich-ben-schwartz-join-steve-carell-netflixs-space-force-1243752|archive-date=June 1, 2020|url-status=live}}
Malkovich's production of George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man, set during in the Serbo-Bulgarian War, attracted protests from Bulgarian nationalists at its November 2024 premiere at the Ivan Vazov National Theater in Sofia. The protestors, who included members of the Union of Bulgarian Writers and right wing political parties and movements, crowded the entrance, waving Bulgarian flags and held a banner which said "Malkovich, go home".{{Cite news |last=Service |first=RFE/RL's Bulgarian |title=Being John Malkovich In Sofia -- Acclaimed Star's Production Disrupted By Nationalists |url=https://www.rferl.org/a/malkovich-sofia-shaw-theater-protests-nationalists-november-2024/33194350.html |access-date=2025-01-18 |work=RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty |language=en}} Malkovich characterised the protests as not "a very smart idea" and rebuffed the suggestion that he had come to work in Bulgaria in order to denigrate the country's reputation.
Works and performances
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Fashion design
Malkovich created his own fashion company, Mrs. Mudd, in 2002.{{cite news |title=John Malkovich dreams about fabric |work=Big Issue |issue=1604 |date=26 February 2024 |pages=32-33|author=Steven MacKenzie}} The company released its John Malkovich menswear collection, "Uncle Kimono", in 2003,{{cite web|url=http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/john-malkovich-trunk-show|title=John Malkovich Trunk Show at The Royal Court Theatre|publisher=Royal Court Theatre|date=April 30, 2005|access-date=March 9, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131126143351/http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/john-malkovich-trunk-show|archive-date=November 26, 2013|url-status=live}} which was subsequently covered in the international press,{{cite web|title=John Malkovich and Flipping Uncle Kimono|url=http://capitalpartners.filmannex.com/malkovich-partnership|publisher=International Press Clippings|access-date=January 28, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130125224101/http://capitalpartners.filmannex.com/malkovich-partnership|archive-date=January 25, 2013}} and its second clothing line, "Technobohemian", in 2011.{{Cite web |last=Roxborough |first=Scott |date=2011-06-28 |title=John Malkovich Launches New Clothing Line |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/style/john-malkovich-launches-new-clothing-206280/ |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=The Hollywood Reporter}} Malkovich designed the outfits himself.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/john_malkovich_the_invisible_man|title=John Malkovich: The Invisible Man|magazine=Boston Magazine|date=March 17, 2010|access-date=March 9, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120106180425/http://www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/john_malkovich_the_invisible_man|archive-date=January 6, 2012}} In an interview with Big Issue in 2024, Malkovich said that he "stopped doing fashion about six, seven years ago" but still enjoys seeing collections by "the great fabric designers".
Frequent collaborators
Malkovich was directed many times by Chilean director Raúl Ruiz — Le Temps retrouvé (Time Regained, 1999), Les Ames Fortes (Savage Souls, 2001), Klimt (2006)Film review in Lemonde [https://www.lemonde.fr/cinema/article/2006/04/25/klimt-fantasmagorie-en-spirale-autour-d-un-exile-du-reel_765200_3476.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820214947/https://www.lemonde.fr/cinema/article/2006/04/25/klimt-fantasmagorie-en-spirale-autour-d-un-exile-du-reel_765200_3476.html|date=August 20, 2018}} and Lines of Wellington (2012).
In 2008, 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 Hall in Santa Monica, California.{{cite web|url=http://www.laweekly.com/2008-05-01/stage/hearing-john-malkovich|title=Los Angeles Stage – Seduction and Despair: Hearing John Malkovich – page 1|access-date=June 16, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141027212600/http://www.laweekly.com/2008-05-01/stage/hearing-john-malkovich/|archive-date=October 27, 2014|url-status=live}} A fully staged version of the production, entitled The Infernal Comedy premiered in Vienna in July 2009. The show has since been performed in 2009 through 2012 throughout Europe, North America and South America.{{cite web|url=http://www.theinfernalcomedy.org/jart/prj3/wak/projekt.jart?rel=en&content-id=1266692789095&reserve-mode=active|title=Infernal Comedy Official Web Page|access-date=May 28, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116054507/http://www.theinfernalcomedy.org/jart/prj3/wak/projekt.jart?rel=en&content-id=1266692789095&reserve-mode=active|archive-date=November 16, 2018|url-status=dead}}
Malkovich was also directed by Sturminger in Casanova's Variations and its movie adaptation in 2014 (co-starring Fanny Ardant).{{Cite web|url=https://www.telerama.fr/cinema/films/casanova-variations,493987.php|title=Casanova variations de Michael Sturminger - (2014) - Drame|date=April 8, 2017|via=www.telerama.fr|access-date=August 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180821000502/https://www.telerama.fr/cinema/films/casanova-variations,493987.php|archive-date=August 21, 2018|url-status=live}} For their third collaboration, in 2017, 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.{{Cite web|url=http://indie-cinema.com/2017/03/just-call-me-god-review/|title=Just Call Me God: A dictator's final speech Review|date=March 14, 2017|access-date=August 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180901113324/http://indie-cinema.com/2017/03/just-call-me-god-review/|archive-date=September 1, 2018|url-status=live}}
He frequently worked with Julian Sands.{{Cite web |title=John Malkovich on 'closest friend' Julian Sands' disappearance: 'It's a great loss' |url=https://ew.com/celebrity/john-malkovich-reflects-julian-sands-disappearance-great-loss/ |access-date=2024-04-04 |website=EW.com}}
Malkovich has collaborated with Lithuanian actress Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė on many productions; by April 2023, there had been nine, and he has called her his "oldest, closest, colleague".{{cite interview |last=Malkovich |first=John |title=John Malkovich in Estonia: I was raised to be curious about the world |url=https://news.err.ee/1608953273/john-malkovich-in-estonia-i-was-raised-to-be-curious-about-the-world |access-date=6 January 2024 |website=ERR |date=22 April 2023}} In 1992{{cite web |date=17 August 1995 |title=A Russian baptism of fire |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12091577.a-russian-baptism-of-fire/ |access-date=6 January 2024 |website=The Herald}} they both appeared in the Steppenwolf production of A Slip of the Tongue, which later played in Shaftesbury Avenue in London, directed by Simon Stokes.{{cite web |last=Wolf |first=Matt |date=12 May 1992 |title=Malkovich is himself, but London 'Slip of the Tongue' lacks identity |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-05-12-9202120047-story.html |access-date=7 January 2024 |website=Chicago Tribune}}{{cite web |date=2 April 2019 |title=John Malkovich on stage, from Steppenwolf to the West End – in pictures |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/gallery/2019/apr/02/john-malkovich-on-stage-from-steppenwolf-to-the-west-end-in-pictures |access-date=7 January 2024 |website=the Guardian}} She also appeared in Libra, a play directed and adapted by Malkovich about Lee Harvey Oswald, and, in January 2011, she appeared with him in The Giacomo Variations at the Sydney Opera House, as part of the Sydney Festival.{{cite web |last=Haselböck |first=Martin |date=9 January 2011 |title=News |url=https://www.slic.org.au/News/news_090111.htm |access-date=6 January 2024 |website=slic.org.au}} In April 2023, Dapkūnaitė acted alongside Malkovich in In the Solitude of Cotton Fields in Tallinn, Estonia.
In the media
In 2014, 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.{{Cite web|url=https://mymodernmet.com/sandro-miller-malkovich-malkovich-malkovich/|title=Photographer Recreates Iconic Portraits Using John Malkovich as His Model|date=September 23, 2014|access-date=August 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180901113146/https://mymodernmet.com/sandro-miller-malkovich-malkovich-malkovich/|archive-date=September 1, 2018|url-status=live}}
Malkovich starred in his first video-game role in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare in the "Exo Zombies" mode.{{Cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/2014/12/19/call-of-duty-advanced-warfare-exo-zombies-trailer-john-malkovich/|title=Fight zombies in 'Call of Duty' with John Malkovich (yes, really)|first=Jonathon|last=Dornbush|date=December 19, 2014|magazine=Entertainment Weekly}} In 1992, he appeared in period costume along with Hugh Laurie in the music video for "Walking on Broken Glass" by Annie Lennox. In 2015, he appeared in the music video for Eminem's single "Phenomenal". In 2017, he appeared in some humorous Super Bowl commercials portraying himself attempting to gain control of the johnmalkovich.com domain.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D5eSGZhqqI|title=John Malkovich – Squarespace Super Bowl 2017 Commercial|last=Tonys World|date=February 6, 2017|via=YouTube|access-date=March 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170406185343/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D5eSGZhqqI|archive-date=April 6, 2017|url-status=live}}
Personal life
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Malkovich married actress Glenne Headly in 1982. In 1988, the couple divorced following his affair with Michelle Pfeiffer.{{cite news|last=Akbar|first=Arifa|title=John Malkovich: 'I don't need to be liked'|date=January 8, 2012|newspaper=The Independent|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/john-malkovich-i-dont-need-to-be-liked-2176821.html|access-date=May 12, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150507002705/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/john-malkovich-i-dont-need-to-be-liked-2176821.html|archive-date=May 7, 2015|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last=Barber|first=Lynn|title=Life and taxes|date=July 9, 2006|newspaper=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/jul/09/features.review|access-date=May 12, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150712074856/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/jul/09/features.review|archive-date=July 12, 2015|url-status=live}} He began dating Nicoletta Peyran in 1989 after meeting her on the set of The Sheltering Sky, on which she was the second assistant director. The couple have two children, Amandine and Loewy.
Malkovich has a distinctive voice quality, which The Guardian has described as "wafting, whispery, and reedy".{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2001/sep/30/features.review |title=A multitude of Malkovich |last=Wood |first=Gaby |date=September 30, 2001 |access-date=April 25, 2010 |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London, UK |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130930145135/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2001/sep/30/features.review |archive-date=September 30, 2013 |url-status=live }} He does not consider himself a method actor.{{cite news|last=Ebert|first=Roger|title=Chicago Has A Place in John Malkovich's Heart|date=September 30, 1984|newspaper=Chicago Sun-Times|url=http://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/chicago-has-a-place-in-john-malkovichs-heart|access-date=July 20, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722015152/http://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/chicago-has-a-place-in-john-malkovichs-heart|archive-date=July 22, 2015|url-status=live}} Malkovich is fluent in French, having lived and worked in theater in southern France for nearly 10 years. He and his family left France in a dispute over taxes in 2003{{cite news|last=Barber|first=Lynn|url=http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,1816049,00.html|title=Life and taxes|work=The Guardian|date=September 7, 2006|access-date=July 14, 2011|location=London, UK|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080119003319/http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,1816049,00.html|archive-date=January 19, 2008|url-status=live}} and have since lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts.{{cite news|last=Kahn|first=Joseph P.|url=http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2005/09/12/seeking_john_malkovich|title=Seeking John Malkovich|date=September 12, 2005|access-date=December 28, 2008|work=Boston Globe|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204085020/http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2005/09/12/seeking_john_malkovich/|archive-date=December 4, 2008|url-status=live}}
Malkovich is the co-owner of the restaurant Bica do Sapato and Lux nightclub in Lisbon.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/travel/72789/aficionado-john-malkovich.html|title=Aficionado: John Malkovich|first=Damon|last=Syson|date=June 8, 2015|work=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=April 5, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170318011400/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/travel/72789/aficionado-john-malkovich.html|archive-date=March 18, 2017|url-status=dead}} He lost millions of dollars in the Madoff investment scandal in 2008.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8601690.stm|title=Actor John Malkovich complains over Madoff fraud award|work=BBC News|date=April 3, 2010|access-date=April 25, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100406164541/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8601690.stm|archive-date=April 6, 2010|url-status=live}}{{cite news|first=Thomas|last=Zambito|author2=Larry McShane|title=Sandy Koufax, John Malkovich among Bernie Madoff victims as court filings are released|date=February 5, 2009|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2009/02/04/2009-02-04_sandy_koufax_john_malkovich_among_bernie.html|work=Daily News|location=New York|access-date=July 23, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090805121539/http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2009/02/04/2009-02-04_sandy_koufax_john_malkovich_among_bernie.html|archive-date=August 5, 2009|url-status=live}} In the 1990s, Malkovich and Peyran bought a farm near Lacoste, Vaucluse, which the couple later turned into a wine label named Les Quelles de la Coste; they started planting grapevines there in 2008{{cite magazine |last=Sheppard |first=Julie |title=Tasting Les Quelles de la Coste |url=https://www.decanter.com/wine-reviews-tastings/tasting-les-quelles-de-la-coste-john-malkovich-wine-426079/ |access-date=24 June 2024 |magazine=Decanter |date=October 12, 2019}} and produced their first vintage in 2011.{{cite magazine |last=Camuto |first=Robert |title=Making John Malkovich Wine |url=https://www.winespectator.com/articles/john-malkovich-surprising-cast-of-wines-in-provence |access-date=24 June 2024 |magazine=Wine Spectator |date=November 19, 2019}}{{cite news |last=Van Der Auwera |first=Frank |title=Le pari viticole réussi de John Malkovich dans le Luberon |url=https://www.lecho.be/sabato/vin/le-pari-viticole-reussi-de-john-malkovich-dans-le-luberon/10256113.html |access-date=June 24, 2024 |newspaper=L'Echo |date=October 6, 2020 |language=fr}} He has raised funds for the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, his sole charity.{{cite news|last=Lyon|first=Jeff|title=Malkovich Comes To Town For His One And Only Charity: Steppenwolf|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1996/09/08/malkovich-comes-to-town-for-his-one-and-only-charity-steppenwolf/|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|access-date=August 7, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150516060851/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1996-09-08/features/9609080209_1_john-malkovich-steppenwolf-con-air|archive-date=May 16, 2015|url-status=live}}
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.{{cite video|title=John Malkovich: 'I've read more books on the Middle East than any British journalist'|time=5:40|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/video/2011/jun/17/john-malkovich-middle-east-barbican|work=The Guardian|date=June 17, 2011|access-date=July 10, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130930112550/http://www.theguardian.com/stage/video/2011/jun/17/john-malkovich-middle-east-barbican|archive-date=September 30, 2013|url-status=live}} At the Cambridge Union Society in 2002, 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. Journalists speculated that the comment was related to criticism of Israel and the war in Iraq.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1967317.stm|title=MP stunned at actor's outburst|publisher=BBC|date=May 4, 2002|access-date=December 28, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011211119/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1967317.stm|archive-date=October 11, 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2002/may/07/students.news|title=Malkovich: 'I'd rather shoot George Galloway'|work=The Guardian|date=May 7, 2002|access-date=September 25, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140909132217/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2002/may/07/students.news|archive-date=September 9, 2014|url-status=live}}
When asked in an interview with the Toronto Star in 2008 whether having spiritual beliefs was necessary to portray a spiritual character, he said, "No, I'd say not... I'm an atheist. I wouldn't say I'm without spiritual belief particularly, or rather, specifically. Maybe I'm agnostic, but I'm not quite sure there's some great creator somehow controlling everything and giving us free will. I don't know; it doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to me."{{cite news|last=Howell|first=Peter|url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/FilmFest/article/497033|title=A Kinder, Gentler Malkovich|work=Toronto Star|date=September 11, 2008|access-date=June 16, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090725042140/http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/filmfest/article/497033|archive-date=July 25, 2009|url-status=live}}
On June 6, 2013, 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. Malkovich applied pressure to Walpole's neck to reduce bleeding before Walpole was rushed to a hospital, where he received stitches and later credited Malkovich with saving his life.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jun/10/john-malkovich-saves-life|title=John Malkovich 'saves the life' of pensioner after fall|last=Barnes|first=Henry|date=June 10, 2013|work=The Guardian|access-date=July 11, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140310084458/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jun/10/john-malkovich-saves-life|archive-date=March 10, 2014|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/john-malkovich-saves-man-falls-slits-throat-article-1.1368223|title=John Malkovich saves 77-year-old Jim Walpole after he falls, slits throat|last=Rivera|first=Zayda|date=June 10, 2013|work=Daily News|location=New York|access-date=July 11, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130615065949/http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/john-malkovich-saves-man-falls-slits-throat-article-1.1368223|archive-date=June 15, 2013|url-status=live}}
Awards and nominations
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! Association ! Category ! Project ! Result ! class=unsortable| Ref. |
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| rowspan="5" |1984
| rowspan="5"|Places in the Heart |{{nominated}} | |
| Boston Society of Film Critics
|{{won}} | |
| Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award
| Best Supporting Actor |{{won}} | |
| National Society of Film Critics
|{{won}} | |
| National Board of Review
|{{won}} | |
| rowspan="2" | 1984
| Boston Society of Film Critics | rowspan="2"|The Killing Fields |{{won}} | |
| National Society of Film Critics
|{{won}} | |
| rowspan="2" |1985
| Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie | rowspan="2"|Death of a Salesman |{{won}} | |
| Golden Globe Award
| Best Supporting Actor - Television |{{nominated}} | |
| rowspan="2" |1991
|{{nominated}} | |
| Laurence Olivier Awards
|{{nominated}} |
| rowspan="5" |1993
| rowspan="5"|In the Line of Fire |{{nominated}} | |
| BAFTA Award
| Best Actor in a Supporting Role |{{nominated}} | |
| Golden Globe Award
| Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture |{{nominated}} | |
| MTV Movie Award
|{{nominated}} | |
| Saturn Award
|{{nominated}} | |
| rowspan="2" | 1994
| Best Supporting Actor Television | rowspan="2"|Heart of Darkness |{{nominated}} | |
| Screen Actors Guild Award
| Outstanding Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie |{{nominated}} | |
| rowspan="3" |1999
| New York Film Critics Circle | rowspan="3"|Being John Malkovich |{{won}} | |
| Chicago Film Critics Association
|{{nominated}} | |
| Screen Actors Guild Award
| Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture |{{nominated}} | |
| 1999
| rowspan=2| Primetime Emmy Award | rowspan="2" | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie | RKO 281 |{{nominated}} | |
| 2002
| Napoléon |{{nominated}} | |
| 2008
| St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association | Best Actor |{{won}} | |
| 2008
| Best Play | Good Canary |{{won}} | |
| rowspan="2" |2010
| Best Motion Picture Musical or Comedy | rowspan="2"|Red |{{nominated}} | |
| Saturn Award
|{{nominated}} | |
| 2014
|colspan=2|Golden Eye Award |{{won}} |
- Order of Danica Hrvatska (Croatia), with the face of Marko Marulić (Zagreb, 2003){{cite web |url=https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2003_06_99_1277.html |title=Odluka o odlikovanju Redom Danice hrvatske s likom Marka Marulića za osobite zasluge za kulturu |work=Narodne novine ('The People's Newspaper' the official gazette of the Republic of Croatia) |number=99 |date=2003}}
- Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class (Kyiv, 2018){{Cite web|url=http://www.president.gov.ua/news/prezident-same-taki-festivali-yak-shlyahi-druzhbi-ce-kulturn-48422|script-title=uk:Президент: Саме такі фестивалі як «Шляхи дружби» – це культурний зв'язок і свідчення повернення України до Європи|website=president.gov.ua|access-date=July 1, 2018|language=uk|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180702024354/http://www.president.gov.ua/news/prezident-same-taki-festivali-yak-shlyahi-druzhbi-ce-kulturn-48422|archive-date=July 2, 2018|url-status=live}}
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