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John Cusack
Known for: ActingJohn 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). He then started appearing in independent films and had leading roles in Eight Men Out (1988), The Grifters (1990), Bullets Over Broadway (1994), Con Air (1997), Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Being John Malkovich (1999), High Fidelity (2000), America's Sweethearts (2001), Serendipity (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.
Filmography 81
The Raven
as Edgar Allan Poe 
2012
+2
as Jackson Curtis 
Runaway Jury
as Nick Easter 
The Numbers Station
as Emerson 
The Thin Red Line
as Capt. John Gaff 
Stand by Me
+2
as Denny Lachance 
Utopia
as Dr. Kevin Christie 
Identity
as Ed 
Con Air
as Agent Vince Larkin 
City Hall
as Kevin Calhoun 
Shadows and Fog
as Student Jack 
Better Off Dead...
as Lane Meyer 
Anastasia
+2
as Dimitri (voice) 
Igor
as Igor (voice) 
Say Anything...
as Lloyd Dobler 
The Butler
as Richard Nixon 
1408
+2
as Mike Enslin 
Being John Malkovich
+1
as Craig Schwartz 
Serendipity
as Jonathan Trager 
Hot Tub Time Machine
as Adam 
High Fidelity
+1
as Rob 
The Prince
as Sam 
Sixteen Candles
+1
as Bryce 
The Contract
as Ray 
Maps to the Stars
+1
as Dr. Stafford Weiss 
The Frozen Ground
as Robert Hansen 
The Paperboy
+2
as Hillary Van Wetter 
Cell
as Clayton 'Clay' Riddell 
War, Inc.
as Brand Hauser 
Grosse Pointe Blank
as Martin Q. Blank 
Must Love Dogs
as Jake 
Love & Mercy
as Brian Wilson 1980s 
Class
as Roscoe 
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
as John Kelso 
Arsenal
as Sal 
America's Sweethearts
as Eddie Thomas 
Pushing Tin
+2
as Nick Falzone 
The Factory
as Mike Fletcher 
Detective Chinatown 1900
as Grant 
Max
as Max Rothman 
The Sure Thing
as Walter "Gib" Gibson 
Eight Men Out
+1
as Buck Weaver 
Adult World
as Rat Billings 
One Crazy Summer
as Hoops McCann 
The Road to Wellville
as Charles Ossining 
The Bag Man
as Jack 
Chi-Raq
as Fr. Mike Corridan 
Grand Piano
+1
as Clem 
The Grifters
as Roy Dillon 
The Journey of Natty Gann
as Harry 
Shanghai
as Paul Soames 
Bullets Over Broadway
as David Shayne 
Dragon Blade
as Lucius 
Cradle Will Rock
as Nelson Rockefeller 
Fog of War
as Bob Duncolm 
The Jack Bull
as Myrl Redding 
Fat Man and Little Boy
as Michael Merriman 
Drive Hard
as Simon Keller 
Never Grow Old
+1
as Christopher 'Dutch' Albert 
River Runs Red
+1
as Horace 
Grandview, U.S.A.
as Johnny Maine 
Hot Pursuit
as Dan Bartlett 
Martian Child
as David 
Grace Is Gone
as Stanley Philipps 
The Ice Harvest
+1
as Charlie 
Singularity
as Elias Van Dorne 
Distorted
as Vernon Sarsfield 
Blood Money
as Miller 
Money for Nothing
as Joey Coyle 
Map of the Human Heart
as The Mapmaker 
Woody Allen: A Documentary
as Self 
Tapeheads
as Ivan Alexeev 
Chicago Cab
as Scary Man 
Reclaim
as Benjamin 
True Colors
as Peter Burton 
Pursuit
+1
as John Calloway 
This Is My Father
as Eddie Sharp 
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
as Self 
Roadside Prophets
as Caspar