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John Cusack

John Cusack

Birthday: 1966-06-28 | Place of Birth: Evanston, Illinois, USA

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2025
Fog of War

as    Bob Duncolm

2025
Detective Chinatown 1900

as    Grant

2024
Decoded

as    Liseiwicz

2022
Pursuit

as    John Calloway

2020
Utopia

as    Dr. Kevin Christie

2019
Never Grow Old

as    Christopher 'Dutch' Albert

2018
River Runs Red

as    Horace

2018
Distorted

as    Vernon Sarsfield

2017
Singularity

as    Elias Van Dorne

2017
Blood Money

as    Miller

2017
Arsenal

as    Sal

2016
Cell

as    Clayton 'Clay' Riddell

2016
The Fog Bowl

as    Narrator (voice)

2016
Boom Bust Boom

as    Self

2015
Love & Mercy

as    Brian Wilson 1980s

2015
Chi-Raq

as    Fr. Mike Corridan

2015
Dragon Blade

as    Lucius

2014
Reclaim

as    Benjamin

2014
Grand Piano

as    Clem

2014
Maps to the Stars

as    Dr. Stafford Weiss

2014
The Bag Man

as    Jack

2014
Adult World

as    Rat Billings

2014
The Prince

as    Sam

2014
Drive Hard

as    Simon Keller

2013
The Numbers Station

as    Emerson

2013
The Butler

as    Richard Nixon

2013
The Frozen Ground

as    Robert Hansen

2013
We're No Animals

as    Tony Lovecraft

2012
The Raven

as    Edgar Allan Poe