Biography of John Cusack
John Paul Cusack was born on 28 June 1966 in Evanston, Illinois, into a Catholic family: his mother, Ann, Paula, is a former mathematics teacher and political activist; his father, Richard, is an actor and a documentary filmmaker, owned a film production company. John graduated in 1984 at the Evanston Township High School, where he met Jeremy Piven, and then attended New York University. However, there remains only for a year. At that time (around the mid-1980s), in fact, won fame by appearing in several films of teenage life, including "Better Off Dead", "Sixteen Candles" and "The Sure Thing" and "One Crazy Summer". In 1988 John Cusack was also featured in a video clip of Suicidal Tendencies, for the song "Trip at the Brain", and the following year starred for Cameron Crowe in "Say Anything", as Lloyd Dobler.
The first major motion pictures
Between the late 1980s and early 1990s, his roles start to become more and more important: it happens, for example, in "True Colors", film of political issue, and in the thriller "The Grifters." John Cusack is present, then, in "Bullets Over Broadway" (Italian title: "bullets over Broadway"), Woody Allen and comedy in "The Road to Wellville" (Italian title: "deaths of health"), by Alan Parker, although the large box office success materialises especially with "Grosse Pointe Blank", the 1997 dark comedy in which also his friend Jeremy Piven and his sister Joan Cusack. Later, Illinois actor takes part in "Con Air", by Simon West, and in "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" (Italian title: "midnight in the garden of good and evil"), Clint Eastwood, before being directed by Paul Quinn in "This is My Father ' and especially from Terrence Malick's" The Thin Red Line "(Italian title:" the thin red line "). After having starred in "Pushing Tin" (original title: "pushing Tin"), in "Being John Malkovich" (Italian title: "being John Malkovich") and in "High Fidelity" (Italian title: "high fidelity"), John Cusack is working in "America's Sweethearts" (original title: "America's sweethearts"), Joe Roth, and in "Serendipity" (Italian title: "Serendipity-When love is magic") by Peter Chelsom. Then gives a cameo in Spike Jonze for "Adaptation" (Italian title: "The Orchid thief"), and plays the role of a Jewish art dealer who mentors a young Adolf Hitler in Max.The years 2000
In 2003 is on the screens with "Runaway Jury" (Italian title: "the jury") by Gary Fleder, and with "Identity" (Italian title: "identity"), by James Mangold. After a couple of years off, is present in "Must Love Dogs" (Italian title: "Partnerperfetto.com"), Fary David Goldberg, and in "The Ice Harvest" by Harold Ramis. Since 2005, Cusack became a blogger on The Huffington Post, "one of the most important American news sites: in his post, inter alia, expresses its opposition to the war in Iraq and his disdain for the Bush administration. Between 2006 and 2007 appears in "The contract", by Bruce Beresford, and in the documentary by Julien Temple "Joe Strummer: The Future is unwritten." Later, he took part in "1408", horror film based on the story by Stephen King, then playing a widowed father in "Grace Is Gone," drama film that addresses the issue of war in Iraq. In 2008 appeared in adverts for MoveOn.org, stressing that George w. Bush and John McCain have the same government program. At that time, must deal with a woman who the stalker, Emily Leatherman, and who is arrested by the police outside his home in Malibu. Following the process, the Leatherman is forced to stay away from Cusack and his home for the next ten years. In 2009, year terminates the cooperation with "The Huffington Post", John says to Roland Emmerich "2012" (disaster movie in which lends time to Jackson Curtis, a limo driver and aspiring novelist), while the following year he was at the movies with "Hot Tub Time Machine" (Italian title: "yesterdays"), Steve Pink, and with "Shanghai", by Mikael Haefstroem.The years 2010
Back on the big screen two years later with a trio of films: "The Factory" (Italian title: "The Factory-race against time"), by Morgan O'Neill, "The Paperboy", by Lee Daniels, and "The Raven", thriller by James McTeigue where plays the role by none other than the writer Edgar Allan Poe. During the same period, is one of the leading proponents of Freedom of the Press Foundation. In 2013, the interpreter of Evanston is the cast of "The Frozen Ground" (Italian title: "the women"), Scott Walker, and "The Numbers stations" (Italian title: "code phantom"), by Kasper Barfoed, and finds himself behind the camera Lee Daniels, who directed "The Butler" (Italian title: "The Butler-a Butler at the White House"), films that embody the American President Richard Nixon. After appearing in "Grand Piano" (Italian title: "blackmail") by Eugenio Mira, in 2014 is the cast of "Love & Mercy", by Bill Pohlad, and "Maps to the Stars", David Cronenberg's dark film that Lampoons the excesses of Hollywood, in which he plays Stafford Weiss. Directed by David Grovic in "The Bag Man (Italian title:" Motel "), in 2015 John Cusack is present in" Dragon Blade ", directed by Daniel Lee.Article contributed by the team of collaborators.