In 1976 'John Malkovich joined Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre, newly founded by his friend Gary Sinise. After that it would take seven years before Malkovich would show up in New York and win an Obie in Sam Shepard's play True West. In 1984 Malkovich would appear with Dustin Hoffman in the Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman, which would earn him an Emmy when it was made into a made-for-TV movie the next year. His big-screen debut would be as the blind lodger in Places in the Heart (1984) ...[Read Story]