John Cusack
Actor
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.
Filmography
Stand by Me
as Denny Lachance 1986
Anastasia
as Dimitri (voice) 1997
1408
as Mike Enslin 2007
Being John Malkovich
as Craig Schwartz 1999
Con Air
as Agent Vince Larkin 1997
Identity
as Ed 2003
The Thin Red Line
as Capt. John Gaff 1998
The Butler
as Richard Nixon 2013
Adaptation.
as John Cusack (uncredited) 2002
Hot Tub Time Machine
as Adam 2010
Sixteen Candles
as Bryce 1984
High Fidelity
as Rob Gordon 2000
Serendipity
as Jonathan Trager 2001
The Frozen Ground
as Robert Hansen 2013
Runaway Jury
as Nick Easter 2003
The Raven
as Edgar Allan Poe 2012