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John Cusack
John Cusack, May 2006
Born	John Paul Cusack June 28, 1966 (1966-06-28) (age 43) Evanston, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation	Actor/Screenwriter
Years active	1983 – present

John Paul Cusack (born June 28, 1966) is an American film actor and screenwriter. He won the 1990 Most Promising Actor CFCA Award for Say Anything..., the 1998 Favorite Supporting Actor Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Con Air, and the 2000 Commitment to Chicago Award.¹

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Personal and political life 4 Filmography 5 References 6 External links

Early life

Cusack was born in Evanston, Illinois, to an Irish American Catholic family.²³ His father, Dick Cusack (1925—2003), and siblings Ann, Joan, Bill, and Susie have also been actors; his father was also a documentary filmmaker,⁴ owned a film production company,⁵ and was a friend of activist Philip Berrigan.⁶ Cusack's mother, Nancy, is a former mathematics teacher and political activist. Cusack spent a year at New York University before dropping out, saying that he had "too much fire in his belly".⁷

Career

Cusack gained fame in the mid-1980s after appearing in teen movies such as Better Off Dead, The Sure Thing, One Crazy Summer, and Sixteen Candles. Cusack made a cameo in the 1988 music video for "Trip At The Brain" by Suicidal Tendencies. His biggest success in that genre is arguably his starring role as Lloyd Dobler in Cameron Crowe's Say Anything. His roles broadened in the late 1980s and early 1990s with more serious-minded fare such as the political satire True Colors and the film noir thriller The Grifters.

Cusack became a proven box office success with his roles in the dark comedy Grosse Pointe Blank and the Jerry Bruckheimer blockbuster Con Air. In the years hence, his range of films has diversified, appearing in roles such as an obsessive puppeteer in Being John Malkovich, a lovelorn record store owner in High Fidelity, and a Jewish art dealer mentoring a young Adolf Hitler in Max. He starred in the horror film 1408, based on Stephen King's short story of the same name. He next appeared as a widowed father in the Iraq War-themed drama Grace is Gone and as assassin Brand Hauser in the dark political satire, War, Inc., along with Hilary Duff and Marisa Tomei.

His sister Joan Cusack and close friend Jeremy Piven have appeared in many of his films. The siblings appeared as two geeks in Sixteen Candles: John as one of Farmer Ted's posse, and Joan as the geek with the neck brace. They also appeared together in High Fidelity, Grosse Pointe Blank, Cradle Will Rock, Martian Child, Say Anything, and War, Inc.. Piven and Cusack played opposite one another in One Crazy Summer, Serendipity, and Grosse Pointe Blank. Cusack also had a brief cameo, seen from behind but speaking a line of dialogue, in Broadcast News, in which Joan also appeared. Piven also had roles in Say Anything, The Grifters and Runaway Jury.⁸

Cusack will next be seen in Roland Emmerich's disaster film, 2012, as Jackson Curtis, a book writer and limo driver.

Personal and political life

Since May 2005, Cusack has been an occasional contributing blogger at The Huffington Post, including an interview with Naomi Klein. He has written extensively on his opposition to the war in Iraq and his disdain for the Bush administration, calling its worldview "depressing, corrupt, unlawful, and tragically absurd".⁹ He also appeared in a June 2008 Moveon.org ad, where he makes the claim that George W. Bush and John McCain have the same governing priorities.¹⁰

Cusack has an allegiance to both the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago White Sox, for which, he says, he's "in trouble there for that."¹¹ He has led the crowd in a performance of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" at Wrigley Field.¹¹

In 2008, police arrested a woman suspected of stalking Cusack.¹² On October 10, 2008, the woman pleaded no contest and received five years probation and mandatory psychiatric counseling, and was ordered to avoid Cusack, his home and business for the next 10 years.¹³

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1983	Class	Roscoe Maibaum
1984	Sixteen Candles	Bryce
	Grandview, U.S.A.	Johnny Maine
1985	The Sure Thing	Walter (Gib) Gibson
	The Journey of Natty Gann	Harry
	Better Off Dead	Lane Meyer
1986	Stand by Me	Denny Lachance
	One Crazy Summer	Hoops McCann
1987	Hot Pursuit	Dan Bartlett
	Broadcast News	Angry Messenger	as John Cusak
1988	Eight Men Out	George 'Buck' Weaver
	Tapeheads	Ivan Alexeev
1989	Elvis Stories	Corky	short subject
	Say Anything...	Lloyd Dobler	Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Emerging Actor
	Fat Man and Little Boy	Michael Merriman
1990	The Grifters	Roy Dillon
1991	True Colors	Peter Burton
1992	Shadows and Fog	Student Jack
	The Player	Self	Cameo
	Bob Roberts	Cutting Edge Host
	Roadside Prophets	Caspar
1993	Map of the Human Heart	The Mapmaker
	Money for Nothing	Joey Coyle
1994	Floundering	JC
	Bullets Over Broadway	David Shayne
	The Road to Wellville	Charles Ossining
1996	City Hall	Deputy Mayor Kevin Calhoun
1997	Grosse Pointe Blank	Martin Q. Blank	Screenplay and co-producer Nominated — Chlotrudis Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
	Con Air	U.S. Marshal Vince Larkin	Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Supporting Actor — Action/Adventure
	Anastasia	Dimitri	voice
	Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil	John Kelso
1998	Chicago Cab	Scary man	Executive producer
	This Is My Father	Eddie Sharp, the Pilot
	The Thin Red Line	Capt. Gaff	Satellite Special Achievement Award for Outstanding Motion Picture Ensemble
1999	Pushing Tin	Nick Falzone
	Cradle Will Rock	Nelson Rockefeller	Nominated - Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast
	Being John Malkovich	Craig Schwartz	Nominated — Independent Spirit Award for Best Actor Nominated — London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Nominated — Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
	The Jack Bull	Myrl Redding	TV film, executive producer
2000	High Fidelity	Rob Gordon	Screenplay and co-producer Nominated — American Comedy Award Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Nominated — Empire Award for Best Actor Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated — Teen Choice Award for Choice Hissy Fit Nominated — USC Scripter Award 2000 Nominated — Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
2001	America's Sweethearts	Eddie Thomas
	Serendipity	Jonathan Trager
2002	Max	Max Rothman	associate producer
	Adaptation.	Himself	uncredited
2003	Identity	Ed Dakota
	Breakfast With Hunter	Himself	documentary
	Runaway Jury	Nicholas Easter
2005	Must Love Dogs	Jake Anderson
	The Ice Harvest	Charlie Arglist
2006	Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride: Hunter S. Thompson on Film	Himself	documentary
	The Contract	Ray Keene
2007	Martian Child	David Gordon
	1408	Mike Enslin	Nominated - Saturn Award for Best Actor
	Grace Is Gone	Stanley Philipps	Producer
2008	War, Inc.	Brand Hauser	Writer and producer
	Summerhood	Narrator	uncredited
	Igor	Igor	voice
2009	Shanghai	Paul Soames	post-production
	2012	Jackson Curtis	post-production
2010	The Factory	Mike Fletcher	post-production
	Hot Tub Time Machine		filming

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: John Cusack

• John Cusack at the Internet Movie Database
• John Cusack at Allmovie
• John Cusack at TV.com
• John Cusack Interview
• The Onion A.V. Club interview

Persondata
NAME	Cusack, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Cusack, John Paul
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actor/Screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH	June 28, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH	Evanston, Illinois, U.S.
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH