John Paul Cusack was born on June 28, 1966 in Evanston. He comes from a family of actors and by the age of 12, had already compiled an impressive resume of film and stage roles. Cusack graduated from Evanston Township High School in 1984 and spent one year at New York University before dropping out.  Acting alongside Rob Lowe and Andrew McCarthy, he made his feature film debut in the 1983 movie Class. This role opened the door for numerous other roles in teen films, such as Better Off Dead, The Sure Thing, One Crazy Summer and Sixteen Candles. One of his more notable roles came as Lloyd Dobler, the hopeless adolescent in Say Anything.

Following this role, he directed and produced shows for a theater group in Chicago and co-wrote and starred in the film Grosse Pointe Blank. Breaking from his typical role selection, Cusack starred as a federal agent alongside Nicholas Cage and John Malkovich in the 1997 film Con Air.

As a way of further broadening his roles, he starred as the quirky puppeteer in Being John Malkovich and as a lonesome record store dealer in High Fidelity. Since 2000, Cusack has starred in a variety of movies including The Raven, Hot Tub Time Machine, 2012 and The Butler.

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