also written by Kaufman - appearing as himself during the filming of Being John Malkovich. He made a cameo appearance in Adaptation. In 1996, Malkovich was directed for the second time (after Les liaisons Dangereuses) by Stephen Frears in Mary Reilly, a new adaptation of the Dr. Though he played the title role in the Charlie Kaufman-penned Being John Malkovich, he played a slight variation of himself, as indicated by the character's middle name of "Horatio". In 1994, he was nominated for another Oscar, in the same category, for In the Line of Fire. Malkovich starred in the 1992 film adaptation of John Steinbeck's award-winning novella Of Mice and Men as Lennie alongside Gary Sinise as George. 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?" He later reprised this role for the music video of "Walking on Broken Glass" by Annie Lennox. He garnered significant critical and popular acclaim when he portrayed the sinister and sensual Valmont in the 1988 film Dangerous Liaisons, a film adaptation of the stage play Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Christopher Hampton, who had adapted it from the 1782 novel of the same title by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. In 1991, he was directed by Woody Allen in Shadows and Fog. In 1990, he played Port Moresby in The Sheltering Sky, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. He continued to have steady work in films such as Empire of the Sun, directed by Steven Spielberg, and the 1987 film adaptation of Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie with Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. He also portrayed Al Rockoff in The Killing Fields. Will, Malkovich received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He made his feature film debut in 1984 as Sally Field's blind boarder Mr. One of his first film roles was as an extra alongside Allen, Terry Kinney, George Wendt and Laurie Metcalf in Robert Altman's 1978 film A Wedding. Malkovich won an Emmy Award for this role when the play was adapted for television by CBS in 1985. His Broadway debut that year was as Biff in Death of a Salesman alongside Dustin Hoffman as Willy. 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. In early 1982, he appeared in A Streetcar Named Desire with Chicago's Wisdom Bridge Theatre. He moved to New York City in 1980 to appear in a Steppenwolf production of the Sam Shepard play True West for which he won an Obie Award. In 1976, Malkovich, along with Joan Allen, Gary Sinise, and Glenne Headly, became a charter member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago. Upon graduating from high school, he entered Eastern Illinois University, and then transferred to Illinois State University, where he majored in theater. As a member of a local summer theater/comedy project, he co-starred in Jean-Claude van Itallie's America Hurrah in 1972. He was active in a folk gospel group, singing in area churches and community events. During his high school years, he appeared in various plays and the musical Carousel. Malkovich attended Logan Grade School, Webster Junior High School, and Benton Consolidated High School. Malkovich has three younger sisters and an older brother. His mother, Joe Anne (née Choisser 1928–2009), owned the Benton Evening News, as well as Outdoor Illinois. His father, Daniel Leon Malkovich (1926–1980), was a state conservation director and publisher of Outdoor Illinois, a conservation magazine. He grew up in Benton, Illinois, where his next door neighbor was future basketball star Doug Collins. His mother was of French, German, Scottish and English ancestry. His paternal grandparents were Croatian, from Ozalj. Malkovich was born in Christopher, Illinois.
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