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John Paul Cusack is an American actor, film producer, and voice actor born in Evanston, Illinois, in 1966. He began his work period in 1983 and is educated at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. His native language is English, which he also uses for writing. Cusack resides in Evanston and practices Catholicism. He is the sibling of Joan Cusack and Ann Cusack, and his father is Dick Cusack.
Cusack has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the Satellite Award for Best Cast – Motion Picture. He has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, an Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead, a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, and a BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. His notable works include the film 1408 and the book Things that can and cannot be said. He also engages in kickboxing.
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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
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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- John
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- 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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