John Cusack

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1966-06-28 (59 years old)

Place of Birth

Evanston, Illinois, USA

John Cusack

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 ...

Acting

1986

Stand by Me

as Denny Lachance

2000

High Fidelity

as Rob Gordon

2022

Pursuit

as John Calloway

1999

Being John Malkovich

as Craig Schwartz

1989

Say Anything...

as Lloyd Dobler

2006

2007

1408

as Mike Enslin

1997

Con Air

as Agent Vince Larkin

1992

The Player

as John Cusack

2003

1994

The Road to Wellville

as Charles Ossining

2007

Grace Is Gone

as Stanley Philipps

1996

City Hall

as Kevin Calhoun

2007

1983

Class

as Roscoe

1994

Bullets Over Broadway

as David Shayne

2003

Runaway Jury

as Nick Easter

2001

America's Sweethearts

as Eddie Thomas

2005

1998

The Thin Red Line

as Capt. John Gaff

1988

Tapeheads

as Ivan Alexeev

1999

Cradle Will Rock

as Nelson Rockefeller

1985

The Sure Thing

as Walter "Gib" Gibson

2005

The Ice Harvest

as Charlie

1997

Grosse Pointe Blank

as Martin Q. Blank

1997

Anastasia

as Dimitri (voice)

1999

Pushing Tin

as Nick Falzone

2001

Serendipity

as Jonathan Trager

1989

Fat Man and Little Boy

as Michael Merriman

2008

War, Inc.

as Brand Hauser

1988

Eight Men Out

as Buck Weaver

2002

Max

as Max Rothman

1991

True Colors

as Peter Burton

1985

Better Off Dead...

as Lane Meyer

1992

2009

2012

as Jackson Curtis

1987

Hot Pursuit

as Dan Bartlett

2008

Igor

as Igor (voice)

1993

Map of the Human Heart

as The Mapmaker

1984

2010

Shanghai

as Paul Soames

1999

The Jack Bull

as Myrl Redding

1990

The Grifters

as Roy Dillon

1986

One Crazy Summer

as Hoops McCann

2012

The Raven

as Edgar Allan Poe

2012

The Paperboy

as Hillary Van Wetter

1993

Money for Nothing

as Joey Coyle

1984

Grandview, U.S.A.

as Johnny Maine

2013

2025

Fog of War

as Bob Duncolm

2014

Adult World

as Rat Billings

1998

Chicago Cab

as Scary Man

2013

The Butler

as Richard Nixon

2014

Maps to the Stars

as Dr. Stafford Weiss

2012

The Factory

as Mike Fletcher

2016

Cell

as Clayton 'Clay' Riddell

2013

The Frozen Ground

as Robert Hansen

2013

2014

2014

2014

Drive Hard

as Simon Keller

2015

Love & Mercy

as Brian Wilson 1980s

1994

2014

Reclaim

as Benjamin

2013

We're No Animals

as Tony Lovecraft

1991

Shadows and Fog

as Student Jack

2015

Dragon Blade

as Lucius

1999

This Is My Father

as Eddie Sharp

2015

Chi-Raq

as Fr. Mike Corridan

2016

The Fog Bowl

as Narrator (voice)

2017

Arsenal

as Sal

2024

BRATS

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2002

Adaptation.

as John Cusack (uncredited)

2024

Decoded

as Liseiwicz

1992

Bob Roberts

as Cutting Edge Host

1987

Broadcast News

as Angry Messenger

2017

Blood Money

as Miller

2015

Hot Tub Time Machine 2

as Adam (uncredited)

2018

Distorted

as Vernon Sarsfield

1989

2017

Singularity

as Elias Van Dorne

2008

Summerhood

as Narrator (uncredited)

2019

Never Grow Old

as Christopher 'Dutch' Albert

2015

2018

1997

Eastwood on Eastwood

as Narrator (voice)

2013

Salinger

as Self - Actor

Production

2000

High Fidelity

as Screenplay

2007

Grace Is Gone

as Producer

1997

Grosse Pointe Blank

as Screenplay

2002

Max

as Associate Producer

2000

High Fidelity

as Co-Producer

2008

War, Inc.

as Writer

2010

1998

Chicago Cab

as Executive Producer

2000

High Fidelity

as Music Supervisor

2016

Cell

as Executive Producer

1997

Grosse Pointe Blank

as Co-Producer

2013

2013

We're No Animals

as Producer

1999

The Jack Bull

as Executive Producer

2008

War, Inc.

as Producer

1994

Floundering

as Additional Dialogue

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