page_title: John Cusack
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caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: John Cusack au festival de Cannes
context_page_description: John Paul Cusack is an American actor, producer, screenwriter and activist. He began acting in films during the 1980s and has since starred in more than 85 films, including Better Off Dead, Say Anything..., Bullets over Broadway, Grosse Pointe Blank, Being John Malkovich, High Fidelity, 1408, Igor, 2012, The Raven and Love & Mercy. The son of filmmaker Dick Cusack, his sisters are actresses Joan and Ann Cusack.
  A versatile actor, during his career he has participated in over seventy films, knowing how to vary his acting style from horror to thriller, to romantic comedies, to family dramas.
  He has participated in numerous successful films, both with audiences and critics and also in numerous Hollywood productions.
context_section_description: John Paul Cusack (/ˈkjuːsæk/; born June 28, 1966) is an American actor, producer, screenwriter and activist. He began acting in films during the 1980s and has since starred in more than 85 films, including Better Off Dead (1985), Say Anything... (1989), Bullets over Broadway (1994), Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Being John Malkovich (1999), High Fidelity (2000), 1408 (2007), Igor (2008), 2012 (2009),  The Raven (2012) and Love & Mercy (2014). The son of filmmaker Dick Cusack, his sisters are actresses Joan and Ann Cusack.
  A versatile actor, during his career he has participated in over seventy films, knowing how to vary his acting style from horror to thriller, to romantic comedies, to family dramas.
  He has participated in numerous successful films, both with audiences and critics and also in numerous Hollywood productions. Among the best known are: the young con man Roy in the hit film noir The Grifters, the two comedies directed by Woody Allen: Shadows and Fog and Bullets on Broadway, the blockbuster action film Con Air with Nicolas Cage , the black comedy Grosse Pointe Blank considered to be one of the best American comedies of all time, the obsessive puppeteer in the comedy Being John Malkovich, the unhappy owner of a record shop in High Fidelity, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor and one at BAFTA Awards for Best Non-Original Screenplay, limo driver Edward Dakota in the psychological horror film Identity, very positively received by critics Identity, one of the jurors in the legal thriller Runaway Jury with Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman, a father widower in on the road drama Grace is Gone also very well received by critics but not by the public, writer Mike Enslin in the psychological horror film 1408 with Samuel L. Jackson (Cusack's performance was much appreciated in the latter two films), Jackson Curtis in Roland Emmerich's 2012 disaster film with Woody Harrelson, serial killer Robert Hansen in The Frozen Ground with Nicolas Cage, and Brian Wilson in the biopic Love & Mercy with Paul Dano for which he received excellent reviews.
  Although his performances have been critically acclaimed multiple times in his numerous films, Cusack has never received an Academy Award nomination, which is why he is often referred to as one of the most underrated actors.
caption: Cusack at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival
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