Portrait of John Cusack

John Cusack

Acting

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.

Born: June 28, 1966

Place of Birth: Evanston, Illinois, USA

Filmography

2025
Fog of War

as Bob Duncolm

2024
Decoded

as 希伊斯

2024
BRATS

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2022
Pursuit

as John Calloway

2020
Utopia

as Dr. Kevin Christie

2019
Never Grow Old

as Christopher 'Dutch' Albert

2018
2018
Distorted

as Vernon Sarsfield

2017
Singularity

as Elias Van Dorne

2017
Blood Money

as Miller

2017
Arsenal

as Sal

2016
The Fog Bowl

as Narrator (voice)

2016
Cell

as Clayton 'Clay' Riddell

2015
Chi-Raq

as Fr. Mike Corridan

2015
2015
Love & Mercy

as Brian Wilson 1980s

2015
Hot Tub Time Machine 2

as Adam (uncredited)

2015
Dragon Blade

as Lucius

2014
Drive Hard

as Simon Keller

2014
Reclaim

as Benjamin

2014
2014
Maps to the Stars

as Dr. Stafford Weiss

2014
2014
Doll & Em

as John

2014
Adult World

as Rat Billings

2013
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
2012
The Factory

as Mike Fletcher

2012
The Paperboy

as Hillary Van Wetter

2012
2012
The Raven

as Edgar Allan Poe

2010
Shanghai

as Paul Soames

2009
2012

as Jackson Curtis

2008
Igor

as Igor (voice)

2008
War, Inc.

as Brand Hauser

2008
Summerhood

as Narrator (uncredited)

2007
Grace Is Gone

as Stanley Philipps

2007
2007
1408

as Mike Enslin

2006
2005
The Ice Harvest

as Charlie

2005
2003
2003
Runaway Jury

as Nick Easter

2002
Adaptation.

as John Cusack (uncredited)

2002
Max

as Max Rothman

2001
Serendipity

as Jonathan Trager

2001
America's Sweethearts

as Eddie Thomas

2000
High Fidelity

as Rob Gordon

1999
Cradle Will Rock

as Nelson Rockefeller

1999
Being John Malkovich

as Craig Schwartz

1999
This Is My Father

as Eddie Sharp

1999
Pushing Tin

as Nick Falzone

1999
The Jack Bull

as Myrl Redding

1998
The Thin Red Line

as Capt. John Gaff

1998
Chicago Cab

as Scary Man

1997
Anastasia

as Dimitri (voice)

1997
Eastwood on Eastwood

as Narrator (voice)

1997
The View

as Self

1997
Con Air

as Agent Vince Larkin

1997
Grosse Pointe Blank

as Martin Q. Blank

1996
1996
City Hall

as Kevin Calhoun

1994
1994
The Road to Wellville

as Charles Ossining

1994
Bullets Over Broadway

as David Shayne

1994
Baseball

as Voice

1994
Baseball

as (voice)

1993
Frasier

as Greg (voice)

1993
Money for Nothing

as Joey Coyle

1993
Map of the Human Heart

as The Mapmaker

1992
Bob Roberts

as Cutting Edge Host

1992
The Player

as John Cusack

1992
1991
Shadows and Fog

as Student Jack

1991
True Colors

as Peter Burton

1990
The Grifters

as Roy Dillon

1989
Fat Man and Little Boy

as Michael Merriman

1989
Say Anything...

as Lloyd Dobler

1989
1988
Tapeheads

as Ivan Alexeev

1988
Eight Men Out

as Buck Weaver

1987
Broadcast News

as Angry Messenger

1987
Hot Pursuit

as Dan Bartlett

1986
Stand by Me

as Denny Lachance

1986
One Crazy Summer

as Hoops McCann

1985
Better Off Dead...

as Lane Meyer

1985
The Sure Thing

as Walter "Gib" Gibson

1984
Grandview, U.S.A.

as Johnny Maine

1984
1983
Class

as Roscoe

1981
1953
The Oscars

as Self