Overview

Know for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
22 Jul, 1955 (69 years old)

Willem Dafoe

Biography

William James "Willem" Dafoe (born July 22, 1955) is an American actor. He is the recipient of various accolades, including the Volpi Cup for Best Actor, in addition to receiving nominations for four Academy Awards, four Screen Actors Guild Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and a British Academy Film Award. He frequently collaborates with filmmakers Paul Schrader, Abel Ferrara, Lars von Trier, Julian Schnabel, Wes Anderson, and Robert Eggers. Dafoe was an early member of experimental theater company The Wooster Group. He made his film debut in Heaven's Gate (1980), but was fired during production. He had his first leading role in the outlaw biker film The Loveless (1982) and then played the main antagonist in Streets of Fire (1984) and To Live and Die in L.A. (1985). He received his first Academy Award nomination (as Best Supporting Actor) for his role as Sergeant Elias Grodin in Oliver Stone's war film Platoon (1986). In 1988, Dafoe played Jesus in Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ and costarred in Mississippi Burning, both of which were controversial. After receiving his second Academy Award nomination (as Best Supporting Actor) for portraying Max Schreck in Shadow of the Vampire (2000), Dafoe portrayed the supervillain Norman Osborn / Green Goblin in the superhero film Spider-Man (2002), a role he reprised in its sequels Spider-Man 2 (2004) and Spider-Man 3 (2007), and the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) earning him the Guinness World Record for the "longest career as a live-action Marvel character". He also portrayed the villains in Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) and XXX: State of the Union (2005), as well as Carson Clay in the film Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007). In 2009, he starred in the experimental film Antichrist, one of his three films with Lars von Trier. Dafoe then appeared in The Fault in Our Stars, John Wick, The Grand Budapest Hotel (all 2014), The Great Wall (2016), Murder on the Orient Express (2017), The Florida Project (2017) (for which he received his third Academy Award nomination in the Best Supporting Actor category), The Lighthouse (2019), The French Dispatch, and Nightmare Alley (both 2021). He portrayed Nuidis Vulko in the DC Extended Universe films Aquaman (2018), Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2022). Dafoe has portrayed several real-life figures, including T. S. Eliot in Tom & Viv (1994), Pier Paolo Pasolini in Pasolini (2014), Vincent van Gogh in At Eternity's Gate (2018) (for which he received an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination, his first in that category), and Leonhard Seppala in Togo (2019).

Known For

Kinds of Kindness
HD
164 min 2024

Kinds of Kindness

Drama
Poor Things
HD
141 min 2023

Poor Things

Science Fiction
Inside
HD
106 min 2023

Inside

Thriller
Dead for a Dollar
HD
106 min 2022

Dead for a Dollar

Western
River
HD
75 min 2021

River

Documentary
Siberia
HD
91 min 2020

Siberia

Drama

Acting

2024
Kinds of Kindness
2023
Poor Things
2023
Inside
2022
Dead for a Dollar
2021
River
2020
Siberia
2020
Roy's World: Barry Gifford's Chicago
2020
Tommaso
2019
Togo
2019
The Lighthouse
2019
Manou the Swift
2018
Opus Zero
2018
Aquaman
2018
At Eternity's Gate
2018
Brothers in Arms
2017
Mountain
2017
The Florida Project
2017
Piazza Vittorio
2017
What Happened to Monday
2016
The Great Wall
2016
Dog Eat Dog
2016
My Hindu Friend
2016
Mind the Gap
2015
Fukushima: A Nuclear Story
2014
Bad Country
2014
Pasolini
2014
A Most Wanted Man
2013
Odd Thomas
2012
Tomorrow You're Gone
2012
4:44 Last Day on Earth
2011
The Hunter
2010
Miral
2010
A Woman
2010
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010
Daybreakers
2009
Antichrist
2008
The Dust of Time
2008
Adam Resurrected
2008
Fireflies in the Garden
2007
Anamorph
2007
Go Go Tales
2007
Mr. Bean's Holiday
2006
Paris Je T'aime
2005
Before It Had a Name
2005
xXx: State of the Union
2004
Control
2004
The Clearing
2004
The Reckoning
2002
Auto Focus
2002
Spider-Man
2001
Edges of the Lord
2001
Pavilion of Women
2000
Animal Factory
2000
Bullfighter
2000
Shadow of the Vampire
1999
New Rose Hotel
1999
The Boondock Saints
1998
Lulu on the Bridge
1997
Speed 2: Cruise Control
1996
Victory
1996
The English Patient
1995
The Night and the Moment
1994
Clear and Present Danger
1994
Tom & Viv
1993
Body of Evidence
1992
Light Sleeper
1992
White Sands
1991
Flight of the Intruder
1990
Wild at Heart
1988
Mississippi Burning
1988
The Last Temptation of Christ
1988
Off Limits
1986
Platoon
1985
To Live and Die in L.A.
1985
O Panama
1984
Roadhouse 66

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