Being John Malkovich

…Malkovich in the acclaimed film Being John Malkovich; the Spike Jonze-directed film also starred Cameron Diaz and Malkovich as a fictional version of himself.

…different role in Spike Jonze’s Being John Malkovich. In the innovative comedy she portrayed Lotte Schwartz, a frumpy pet shop employee who enters the mind of actor John Malkovich. That year she also appeared in the Oliver Stone film Any Given Sunday, playing Christina Pagniacci, the ruthless owner of the…

…helmed his first feature film, Being John Malkovich (1999). The surreal comedy, which was written by Charlie Kaufman, chronicles the series of bizarre events that occur after a puppeteer (played by John Cusack) discovers a portal into the mind of actor John Malkovich. The film was critically acclaimed and earned…

…in Charlie Kaufman’s surreal comedy Being John Malkovich (1999). In the film, he plays an excessively self-obsessed version of himself (the only apparent difference is Malkovich’s middle name has been changed to Horatio), as filtered through the lens of celebrity. In 2002 Malkovich directed his first feature-length film, The Dancer…

…Spike Jonze’s unexpectedly successful film Being John Malkovich (1999). The surreal black comedy features John Cusack as a nebbishy puppeteer who stumbles across a portal in the building where he works (on floor 7 1/2) that leads into the brain of actor John Malkovich. Kaufman’s screenplay was nominated…

… and in the acclaimed film Being John Malkovich (1999), in which he played himself. In 2000 he portrayed Artie Mitchell, a real-life pornographic filmmaker who rose to fame in the 1970s, in the television biopic Rated X (directed by Emilio, who costarred as Mitchell’s brother Jim).