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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).

The Kingdom of Myrtana, reunited by King Rhobar II: During the long years of his reign he was able to defeat all foes of the realm. All, except one: The war against the Orcs took its toll and the prisoners of the realm were to pay the price: The King needed swords for his army and every men guilty of a crime, no matter how insignificant was forced to work in the ore mines of Khorinis. To make it impossible to escape the King sent out the best magicians of the Kingdom to create a magic barrier around the entire valley, I was one of them. Something disturbed the delicate structure of magic: We were trapped inside our own barrier. One second of negleciance was enough for the prisoners. Khorinis was now under the control of the convicts. The King had no choice. He had to negotiate, he needed the ore. Month after month the King supplied everything the prisoners needed, month after month they brought the ore to the edge of the barrier in exchange until the present day: Another convict was brought to the Cliff...
