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John Malkovich
 
Malkovich started his acting career by founding of the now-famous Steppenwolf Theatre Company. His film debut came opposite Sally Field in the sentimental southern drama Places in the Heart in which Malkovich convincingly played an embittered blind man. However, Malkovich is best known for his redundant performances as cinema Villains, such as Dangerous Liaisons (1989), In the Line of Fire opposite Clint Eastwood, Jane Campion's Portrait of a Lady (1997) and the Simpson and Bruckheimer blockbuster Con Air starring too many well-known actors with bad Fabio hair extensions. At a recent public Q & A at Northwestern University, Malkovich confirmed that he much preferred theatre performance to film, suggesting that he only did films so as to own summer homes in France.

Though you don't see him with Steppenwolf much (his direction of the 1999-2000 season's Hysteria is an exception), the anti-star is still a money bank for Steppenwolf.

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