Played villains in: Dangerous Liaisons (1988), In the Line of Fire (1993), Con Air (1997), The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999), Shadow of the Vampire (2000), The Libertine (2005), The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005), Eragon (2006).

2-time Oscar nominee, John Malkovich, often appears in movies in the roles of villains, sadists, maniacs, and bad guys. So, in the adaptation of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’s novel Dangerous Liaisons, the actor played the role of Valmont, an immoral pervert and schemer, that does bad things to people for no reason. And in Con Air, he appeared in the role of an arrested mass murderer that escapes prison and terrorizes the police and innocent bystanders.