John Cusack Wiki, Bio, Age, Net Worth, and Other Facts

John Cusack Wiki, Bio, Age, Net Worth, and Other Facts

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John Cusack is, like most of his characters, an unconventional hero. Wary of fame and repelled by formulaic Hollywood fare, he has built a successful career playing underdogs and odd men out–all the while avoiding the media spotlight. John was born in Evanston, Illinois, to an Irish-American family. With the exception of mom Nancy (née Carolan), a former math teacher, the Cusack clan is all show business: father Dick Cusack was an actor and filmmaker, and John’s siblings Joan Cusack, Ann Cusack, Bill Cusack and Susie Cusack are all thespians by trade. Like his brother and sisters, John became a member of Chicago’s Piven Theatre Workshop while he was still in elementary school. By age 12, he already had several stage productions, commercial voice overs and industrial films under his belt. He made his feature film debut at 17, acting alongside Rob Lowe and Andrew McCarthy in the romantic comedy Class (1983). His next role, as a member of Anthony Michael Hall’s geek brigade in Sixteen Candles (1984), put him on track to becoming a teen-flick fixture. Cusack remained on the periphery of the Brat Pack, sidestepping the meteoric rise and fall of most of his contemporaries, but he stayed busy with leads in films like The Sure Thing (1985) and Better Off Dead… (1985). Young Cusack is probably best remembered for what could be considered his last adolescent role: the stereo-blaring romantic Lloyd Dobler in Say Anything… (1989). A year later, he hit theaters as a grown-up, playing a bush-league con man caught between his manipulative mother and headstrong girlfriend in The Grifters (1990).

Interesting Facts about John Cusack

  • Turned down the role of David Murphy in Indecent Proposal (1993), which went to Woody Harrelson.
  • Last name is pronounced Q-zack.
  • Is the product of a passionately liberal Irish Catholic family, visited the radical Berrigan brothers when he was growing up, and, like them, his mother still gets arrested for her anti-militarism and pro-human rights protests.
  • Attended and graduated from Evanston Township High School, Evanston, Illinois (1980).
  • Was considered for the role of Billy Flynn in Chicago (2002). However, he ended up losing the role to Richard Gere.
  • Brother of Joan Cusack, Ann Cusack, Susie Cusack and Bill Cusack. Son of Dick Cusack (actor, documentary filmmaker) and Nancy Cusack (teacher).
  • Ranked #15 on Tropopkin magazine’s Top 25 Most Intriguing People [Issue #100].
  • Was considered for the role of Paul Brenner in The General’s Daughter (1999), but was deemed too young at the time, so the role went to John Travolta instead.
  • Was good friends with Hunter S. Thompson and nearly got to play him in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998).
  • Was once roommates with Jeremy Piven.
  • Has homes in Malibu, California, and Chicago, Illinois.
  • Featured as #22 on VH1’s 100 Greatest Teen Stars countdown.

Personal Quotes by John Cusack

But, you know, I’m sorry, I think democracy requires participation. I mean, I don’t want to proselytize but I do feel some sort of duty to participate in the process in some way other than just blindly getting behind a political party.

John Cusack

It’s a very frightening time when something as basic as due process is seen as somehow radical.

John Cusack

It’s something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else’s poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you’re too awkward to do it.

John Cusack

I kept saying that I’d never live in L.A., and I didn’t think I would. But that’s where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you’re famous, its hard to live in a small town.

John Cusack