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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
The Overseer
for The Overseer in John Carpenter's Fallout
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Vault 13 is a retro-futuristic bunker where survivors of a 50-year-old nuclear war live in a simulated 1950s suburbia. When the vault's water chip fails, a restless dreamer leads a scout team to the surface: a quirky tech, a stern officer and an arrogant scholar. The wasteland is a hellscape of rubble and mutants. The tech dies in a raider trap, and the team is captured by Max, a survivalist who offers a water chip in exchange for Vault 13's mythical G.E.C.K. At the Hub, a crime lord and a historian reveal the vaults were a corporate doomsday scheme. The scholar betrays the group to The Master, a mutant zealot creating a sterile super-race. As the team escapes, the Overseer locks them out, revealed as the war's architect. Mutants siege Vault 13; the hero's father dies opening the door. The hero crushes the mutated scholar, kills the Master, and mercy-kills an infected Max. Leading survivors into the wastes, he activates the G.E.C.K., creating a fragile Eden with the officer at his side. War never changes—but people do.
