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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
Ivan Kragoff
for Ivan Kragoff in The Fantastic 4 (2004)
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Reed Richards leads an experimental space mission to study a mysterious surge of cosmic radiation, joined by his fiancée Sue Storm, her impulsive younger brother Johnny, and Reed’s close friend and pilot Ben Grimm. When the mission is struck by cosmic rays, the crew barely survives and crash-lands back on Earth. Soon after, they discover they have been permanently transformed: Reed can stretch his body, Sue can turn invisible and create force fields, Johnny can ignite into living flame and fly, and Ben is mutated into a super-strong, rock-like being. As Reed searches desperately for a cure—particularly for Ben—the group struggles with guilt, anger, and their fractured relationships. Their fragile unity is threatened by the emergence of the Red Ghost, a brilliant Soviet physicist who deliberately exposed himself to cosmic radiation in an attempt to surpass Richards. Gaining the ability to phase through solid matter, Red Ghost launches a series of attacks with the help of his super-powered ape allies, aiming to assert scientific and ideological dominance. Forced into the public eye, the four must learn to trust one another and combine their abilities to stop him. In a final confrontation, they defeat Red Ghost by embracing teamwork over ego, accepting that their powers are not a curse but a responsibility. United at last, Reed, Sue, Johnny, and Ben step forward as the Fantastic Four.
