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John Cusack is an American actor, film producer, and voice actor who began his professional career in 1983. Born on June 28, 1966, in Evanston, Illinois, he is a citizen of the United States and resides in Evanston. He is a Catholic and speaks English. Cusack is the son of Dick Cusack and the brother of Joan Cusack and Ann Cusack. He received his education at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts.
His acting work includes roles in productions such as *High Fidelity* and *Scarlet fever*. Cusack has also been credited as an author for five works, including *1408 (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)*, *Things that can and cannot be said*, and *GAA book of days*. He practices kickboxing as a sport.
Cusack has received the Satellite Award for Best Cast – Motion Picture and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He has been nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, and the BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 5
Top works
- 1408 (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
- Things that can and cannot be said
- GAA book of days
- High Fidelity
- Scarlet fever
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Film & TV
Acting · 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). He then started appearing in independent films and had leading roles in Eight Men Out (1988), The Grifters (1990), Bullets Over…
Known for
- Fog of War — Bob Duncolm2025
- Detective Chinatown 1900 — Grant2025
- Meister der Apokalypse - Roland Emmerich — Self2025
- BRATS — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)2024
- Decoded — 希伊斯2024
- Pursuit — John Calloway2022
- Utopia — Dr. Kevin Christie2020
- Never Grow Old — Christopher 'Dutch' Albert2019
- Distorted — Vernon Sarsfield2018
- River Runs Red — Horace2018
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Listeners · Last.fm
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- 160
- Total plays
- 475
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 204,297x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,514x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,878x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 35,530x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 29,118x
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- Given name
- John
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Evanston
- Father
- Dick Cusack
- Occupation
- television producer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Sport
- kickboxing
- Official website
- www.johncusack.net
- Image
- John Cusack Comic-Con 2011.jpg
- Residence
- Evanston
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- writing language
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- birth name
- John Paul Cusack
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