John Cusack
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Cusack at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival
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| Born | John Paul Cusack June 28, 1966 Evanston, Illinois, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor, film producer, screenwriter, puppeteer |
| Years active | 1983–present |
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Early life
Cusack was born to a Catholic Irish-American family in Evanston, Illinois.[1][2] His mother, Ann Paula "Nancy" (née Carolan), is a former mathematics teacher and political activist.[3][4] His father, Richard Cusack (1925–2003), was an actor, as are John's siblings, Ann, Joan, Bill, and Susie.[5] His father was also a documentary filmmaker,[6] owned a film production company,[7] and was a friend of activist Philip Berrigan.[8] Cusack spent a year at New York University before dropping out, saying that he had "too much fire in [his] belly".Career
Cusack gained fame in the mid-1980s after appearing in teen films such as Better Off Dead, The Sure Thing, One Crazy Summer, and Sixteen Candles. He made a cameo in the 1988 music video for "Trip at the Brain" by Suicidal Tendencies. In 1989, he starred 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 politically themed True Colors and the film noir thriller The Grifters.
His sister Joan Cusack and close friend Jeremy Piven have appeared in many of his films such as Say Anything... and Grosse Pointe Blank. 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, High Fidelity, Cradle Will Rock, Martian Child and War, Inc.. Piven and Cusack play opposite one another in One Crazy Summer, Serendipity. 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 The Grifters and Runaway Jury.[9]
In Roland Emmerich's last disaster film 2012, he played Jackson Curtis, a struggling novelist and limo driver, with his Identity and Martian Child co-star Amanda Peet. In 2010, Cusack starred in Hot Tub Time Machine, with Rob Corddry, Clark Duke, and Craig Robinson. In the 2012 thriller film The Raven, Cusack portrayed Edgar Allan Poe. In July 2013, Cusack joined the production of David Cronenbergs Maps to the Stars, which is described as dark comic look at Hollywood excess.[10] He portrayed president Richard Nixon in Lee Daniel's 2013 historical film The Butler".
Cusack is set to play Beach Boys founding member Brian Wilson in the upcoming biopic Love and Mercy. He will play Wilson in his later years.
Cusack is the founder and owner of New Crime Productions.[11]
Personal life
Between 2005 and 2009, Cusack blogged at The Huffington Post, including an interview with Naomi Klein. He has blogged on his opposition to the war in Iraq and his disdain for the Bush administration, calling its worldview "depressing, corrupt, unlawful, and tragically absurd".[15] He also appeared in a June 2008 MoveOn.org advertisement, where he made the claim that George W. Bush and John McCain have the same governing priorities.[16] Cusack has also blasted President Barack Obama's administration for its drone policy in the Middle East and its support of the National Defense Authorization Act and became one of the initial supporters of the Freedom of the Press Foundation in 2012.
In March 2008, police arrested Emily Leatherman outside Cusack's Malibu home for stalking him. On October 10, 2008, Leatherman pleaded no contest and received five years' probation and mandatory psychiatric counseling and was ordered to stay away from Cusack, his home and business for the next 10 years.[17]
Filmography
Film
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1996 | Frasier | Greg | Voice Episode: "Our Father Whose Art Ain't Heaven" |
| 1999 | The Jack Bull | Myrl Redding | Movie Executive producer |
| 2014 | Doll & Em | John | Episode 1.3 |
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