John Cusack
Biography
John Paul Cusack (born June 28, 1966) is an American actor. Cusack began acting in films during the 1980s, starring in coming-of-age dramedies such as Sixteen Candles (1984), Better Off Dead (1985), The Sure Thing (1985), Stand by Me (1986), and Say Anything... (1989). In the 1990s, he then started appearing in independent films and had leading men roles in Bullets Over Broadway (1994), Con Air (1997), Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), The Thin Red Line (1998), Being John Malkovich (1999), High Fidelity (2000), America's Sweethearts (2001), Max (2002), and Runaway Jury (2003). Cusack has been nominated for several awards, including a Golden Globe for his role starring in High Fidelity. He won the 2014 Canadian Screen Awards for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in Maps to the Stars. He is a son of filmmaker Dick Cusack and the younger brother of actors Bill, Joan and Ann Cusack. In 2012, Cusack was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Movies (46)
Meister der Apokalypse - Roland Emmerich
as Self
2025
Fog of War
as Bob Duncolm
2025
Detective Chinatown 1900
as Grant
2025
Decoded
as 希伊斯
2024
BRATS
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2024
Pursuit
as John Calloway
2022
Never Grow Old
as Christopher 'Dutch' Albert
2019
River Runs Red
as Horace
2018
Distorted
as Vernon Sarsfield
2018
Singularity
as Elias Van Dorne
2017
Blood Money
as Miller
2017
Arsenal
as Sal
2017
The Fog Bowl
as Narrator (voice)
2016
Cell
as Clayton 'Clay' Riddell
2016
Chi-Raq
as Fr. Mike Corridan
2015
Boom Bust Boom
as Self
2015
Love & Mercy
as Brian Wilson 1980s
2015
Hot Tub Time Machine 2
as Adam (uncredited)
2015
Dragon Blade
as Lucius
2015
Drive Hard
as Simon Keller
2014
Reclaim
as Benjamin
2014
The Prince
as Sam
2014
Maps to the Stars
as Dr. Stafford Weiss
2014
The Bag Man
as Jack
2014
Adult World
as Rat Billings
2014
Grand Piano
as Clem
2013
We're No Animals
as Tony Lovecraft
2013
Salinger
as Self - Actor
2013
The Butler
as Richard Nixon
2013
The Frozen Ground
as Robert Hansen
2013
The Numbers Station
as Emerson
2013
The Factory
as Mike Fletcher
2012
The Paperboy
as Hillary Van Wetter
2012
All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set
as Self
2012
The Raven
as Edgar Allan Poe
2012
Woody Allen: A Documentary
as Self
2011
Shanghai
as Paul Soames
2010
Hot Tub Time Machine
as Adam
2010
2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
as Self
2010
The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
as Self
2010
2012
as Jackson Curtis
2009
Igor
as Igor (voice)
2008
War, Inc.
as Brand Hauser
2008
Summerhood
as Narrator (uncredited)
2008
Guyville Redux
2008
Grace Is Gone
as Stanley Philipps
2007
