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Garrett Malcolm

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Garrett Justus Malcolm, born December 4, 1962, is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, and director. He is a member of the renowned Malcolm family of American actors, son of Ralph Malcolm and the British actress Eve Hester, and grandson of Harrison Malcolm. He first appeared on stage at the age of four as a page boy in Henry the Fourth, a production starring his grandfather. He continued to act throughout his childhood at his father’s Cranberry Hill Theater on Cape Cod. His first Broadway role was in his father’s production of Macbeth (1968).

Following a turbulent childhood marked by drug and alcohol abuse and three stints in rehab, he successfully made the transition from child prodigy to adult actor, appearing in the romantic comedies French Kiss, Twisted Silk, and Bryony Falls Express, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award as Best Actor in a Supporting Role. In 1986, he formed Cranberry Hill Productions, named for his father’s Cape Cod estate and theatrical company, and began writing screenplays.

The first Cranberry Hill production, shot on location in and around the Malcolm estate, was the immediately successful action/adventure film Blue Flame (1988), which introduced the actor Brooklyn Pierce in the role of Benjamin Justice. Malcolm’s original screenplay was nominated for both a Golden Globe and an Oscar and stunned many critics when it won the Academy Award. Green Gem (1990), the sequel to Blue Flame, won nominations for Best Director as well as Best Original Screenplay, while Pierce was recognized with a Golden Globe win as Best Actor. Claire Gregory costarred with Pierce in Red Shot (1992), which was nominated for seven Golden Globes and three Academy Awards. Gregory won the Oscar for Best Actress. She and Malcolm were wed later the same year.

Taking a break from action/adventure, Malcolm cowrote and directed two comedies starring Claire Gregory, Rip Tide (1995) and Still Moon (1996). The Savage Place (1998) won Malcolm his second Academy Award, this one for Best Director. Heartbeat (2002) brought another nomination for Best Original Screenplay.

He was recognized as one of People magazine’s Most Beautiful People in 1998, 1999, and 2000. He has a reputation for publicity avoidance and has clashed with paparazzi on his secluded estate.

In 2007, he won an Emmy Award for his televised version of Eugene O’Neill’s A Moon for the Misbegotten.