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Malkovich, John (b. 1953), actor. The unconventional leading man, who specializes in threatening yet mesmerizing characters, was born in Christopher, Illinois, and educated at Eastern Illinois State and Illinois State University before going to Chicago and co‐founding the Steppenwolf Theatre where he acted and directed for seven years. Malkovich made an impressive Manhattan debut in 1982 as the dissolute Lee in True West and has returned to the New York stage for such intriguing portrayals as the lost son Biff in Death of a Salesman (1984) and the volatile Pale in Burn This (1987).
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