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John Cusack

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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). He then started appearing in independent films and had leading roles in Eight Men Out (1988), The Grifters (1990), Bullets Over Broadway (1994), Con Air (1997), Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Being John Malkovich (1999), High Fidelity (2000), America's Sweethearts (2001), Serendipity (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.

John Cusack

Biography

Films Featuring John Cusack

Stand by Me

High Fidelity

Pursuit

Being John Malkovich

Say Anything...

The Contract

1408

Con Air

The Player

Identity

The Road to Wellville

Grace Is Gone

City Hall

Martian Child

Class

Bullets Over Broadway

Hot Tub Time Machine

Runaway Jury

America's Sweethearts

Must Love Dogs

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

The Thin Red Line

Tapeheads

Cradle Will Rock

The Sure Thing

The Ice Harvest

Grosse Pointe Blank

Anastasia

Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride

Pushing Tin

Serendipity

Fat Man and Little Boy

War, Inc.

Eight Men Out

Max

True Colors

Better Off Dead...

Roadside Prophets

The Journey of Natty Gann

2012

Hot Pursuit

Igor

Map of the Human Heart

Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S.

Sixteen Candles

Shanghai

The Jack Bull

Breakfast with Hunter

The Grifters

One Crazy Summer

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten

The Raven

Woody Allen: A Documentary

My Only Sunshine

The Paperboy

Money for Nothing

Grandview, U.S.A.

The Numbers Station

Fog of War

Adult World

Chicago Cab

The Butler

Maps to the Stars

The Factory

Cell

The Frozen Ground

Grand Piano

The Prince

The Bag Man

Drive Hard

Love & Mercy

Floundering

Reclaim

We're No Animals

Shadows and Fog

Dragon Blade

This Is My Father