Willem Dafoe
Acting
Born 1955-07-22
Appleton, Wisconsin, USA
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William James "Willem" Dafoe (/dəˈfoʊ/ də-FOH; born July 22, 1955) is an American actor. Known for his prolific career portraying diverse roles in both mainstream and arthouse films, he is the recipient of various accolades, including a Volpi Cup Award for Best Actor, with nominations for four Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, and four Golden Globe Awards. He received an Honorary Golden Bear in 2018.
Born in Appleton, Wisconsin, Dafoe made his film debut with an uncredited role in Heaven's Gate (1980). He is known for collaborating with both mainstream and auteur filmmakers, including Paul Schrader, Abel Ferrara, Sam Raimi, Yorgos Lanthimos, Lars von Trier, Julian Schnabel, Andrew Stanton, Wes Anderson, and Robert Eggers. He received Academy Award nominations for playing a compassionate army sergeant in the war drama Platoon (1986), Max Schreck in the mystery film Shadow of the Vampire (2000), a kindly motel manager in the coming-of-age film The Florida Project (2017), and Vincent van Gogh in the biopic At Eternity's Gate (2018).
His other films credits include To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Wild at Heart (1990), The English Patient (1996), American Psycho (2000), Animal Factory (2000), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), Antichrist (2009), The Hunter (2011), John Carter (2012), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), John Wick (2014), The Lighthouse (2019), Togo (2019), Poor Things (2023), and Nosferatu (2024).
Dafoe was a founding member of experimental theatre company The Wooster Group. He portrayed Norman Osborn in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man film trilogy (2002–2007) and reprised the role in Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021). He has also voiced roles in the animated films Finding Nemo (2003), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), and The Boy and the Heron (2023).
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Acting
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Spider-Man: No Way Home
Spider-Man
The Simpsons
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Daily Show
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Spider-Man 3
Saturday Night Live
Conan
The Graham Norton Show
Spider-Man 2
Finding Nemo
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Nosferatu
Poor Things
WIRED's Autocomplete Interviews
American Psycho
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Aquaman
The Grand Budapest Hotel
John Wick
The Oscars
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Off Camera with Sam Jones
The Northman
Finding Dory
The Hitchhiker
John Carter
The Lighthouse
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Aviator
The Kingdom
Murder on the Orient Express
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
The Great Wall
Inside Man
Mr. Bean's Holiday
Platoon
Nightmare Alley
Kulturplatz
Asteroid City
The Phoenician Scheme
The English Patient
The Fault in Our Stars
What Happened to Monday
Clear and Present Danger
Kinds of Kindness
Wild at Heart
The Florida Project
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
xXx: State of the Union
Born on the Fourth of July
Daybreakers
Speed 2: Cruise Control
Antichrist
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