John Cusack

John Paul Cusack
28 June 1966
My favorite John-role: Rob (High Fidelity)
Easy choice as on-screen brother: TBA

John have made a career of unconventional hero roles, and this Lloyd Dobler-moment from the late 80's cult-classic Say Anything... is topped by few of that kind. Whether he takes on that romantic adolescent boombox-blasting Lloyd Dobler, the Nick Hornby created music store owner Rob Gordon in High Fidelity or the High School reuniting hit-man Martin Q. Blank in Grosse Pointe Blank, John Cusack brings life to these characters leaving no-one questioning his talent.

Still John Cusack have taken on other kind of parts as well, and the most remembered is probably the acclaimed Charlie Kaufman written Spike Jonze directed movie Being John Malkovich. He has taken part in disaster movie with his limo-driving role in 2012, been half of America's Sweethearts opposite Cathrine Zeta-Jones and Julia Roberts in the movie with the same title and a wallflower nerd in John Hughes' Sixteen Candles, but it's his unconventional hero roles he'll be remembered by.

Along the rest of his siblings John was member at the Piven Theatre Workshop, resulting in a life long friendship with the now well known Jeremy Piven who's been brought to fame thanks to his Ari Gold role at Entourage. As a result you'll also find Jeremy Piven in smaller roles in a lot of movies starring John.

Whatever John does next, odds are you'll never confuse him for Bruce Willis, Matt Damon or Tom Cruise. At least he'll always have talent at his side, and that's a lot more than many blockbuster actors ever can say.

John Cusack movies reviewed here at Motion Pictures on the fly:

• Hot Tub Time Machine
• Runaway Jury
• 2012
• Identity
• High Fidelity
• Say Anything...
• Sixteen Candles
• The Grifters
• Grosse Pointe Blank
• America's Sweethearts
• Stand by Me
• Martian Child