Embeth Davidtz
Acting
Born 1965-08-11
Lafayette, Indiana, USA
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Embeth Jean Davidtz (born August 11, 1965) is an American-born South African actress and director. She has appeared in movies such as Schindler's List, Matilda, Bridget Jones's Diary, and The Amazing Spider-Man, and in the television series In Treatment, Californication, and Mad Men.
In 2024 Davidtz made her directorial debut with Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, an adaptation of the best-selling memoir of the same name by Alexandra Fuller about growing up on a farm in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. The film had its Canadian premiere at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Davidtz was born on August 11, 1965, in Lafayette, Indiana, to South African parents John and Jean, while her father was studying chemical engineering at Purdue University. The family later moved to Trenton, New Jersey, and then to South Africa when Davidtz was nine years old
Davidtz has Dutch, English, and French ancestry. She had to learn Afrikaans before attending school classes in South Africa, where her father took up a teaching post at Potchefstroom University. Davidtz graduated from The Glen High School in Pretoria in 1983 and studied at Rhodes University in Grahamstown.
In 1992, Davidtz played the part of Sheila in Sam Raimi's Army of Darkness alongside Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams. The third movie in the Evil Dead franchise would eventually become a big cult classic worldwide. In 1993, Davidtz played the role of Helen Hirsch in Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List.
In 1995, Davidtz had a central role in the fact-based film Murder in the First, and the Merchant Ivory Productions Feast of July.
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Filmography
Grey's Anatomy
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
The Amazing Spider-Man
Mad Men
Californication
Scrubs
Schindler's List
The Morning Show
Ray Donovan
Screen Two
In Treatment
Matilda
Love, Victor
Bridget Jones's Diary
Army of Darkness
Old
Fallen
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Thir13en Ghosts
Fracture
Retribution
Bicentennial Man
Tales of the Walking Dead
Europa Report
Murder in the First
Junebug
Not Okay
Shackleton
Paranoia
The Hole
Winged Creatures
Mansfield Park
Citizen Baines
The Emperor's Club
The Gingerbread Man
The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe
Sweet Murder
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
3 Backyards
Miracle Rising: South Africa
Deadly Matrimony
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
Matilda's Movie Magic: The Making of 'Matilda'
Nelson Mandela Redrawn
Feast of July
Last Rites
Simon Magus
Till Death Us Do Part
Mutator
The Garden of Redemption
My Movie About Making 'Matilda' by Mara Wilson
A Private Life
The Night of the 19th
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