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John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an American actor. He has received several accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and 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 Awards 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 Crossbones (2014), Billions (2018–19), The New Pope (2020), and Space Force (2020–2022).
John Malkovich
Pope Urban II
for Pope Urban II in Bloodied Cross
Suggested by thecookieprincess
The beginning of the story takes place about 20 years before the First Crusade, in the Middle East. The main character Malik is 15 years old at this point, coming from a Christian family. She is, as a result of the persecution of Christians, murdered by Muslim warriors, Malik manages to escape, however, thanks to the sacrifice of his older brother who drew the attention of the murderers away from him. Malik manages to escape and after many days, weeks of wandering he reaches Europe where he encounters Christian knights who are distrustful of him when he shows them the cross, and when they see his condition they take pity and take him with them. 20 years later, after being raised by the Crusaders and trained, he sets off with them on the Crusade to avenge his family and confront the man who was the leader of his family's murderers.
