Willem Dafoe
Known For: Acting
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: July 22, 1955 (69 years old)
Place of Birth: Appleton, Wisconsin, USA
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).
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Il coraggio di essere Franco
Actor Self
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
Actor Narrator
Finding Satoshi
Actor
Franco Battiato - La voce del padrone
Actor Self
Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the Mysterious
Actor Self / Grand Duc
Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus
Actor Heimir the Fool
The Northman
Actor Film Actor
7 Deaths of Maria Callas
Actor Joe Cribbens
Dead for a Dollar
2021
2020
Actor Clint
Siberia
Actor Richard McMahon
The Last Thing He Wanted
Actor Tommaso
Tommaso
Actor Self
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
Actor
Roy's World: Barry Gifford's Chicago
Actor Self
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Actor Self
Sportin' Life
Actor Self
The Lighthouse: A Dark & Stormy Tale
Associate Producer
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
2019
Actor Self / Norman Osborn/ Green Goblin (archive footage)
Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee
Actor Vincent van Gogh (archive footage)
Vincent van Gogh Superstar
Actor Thomas Wake
The Lighthouse
Actor Paul Randolph
Motherless Brooklyn
Actor Manou's Father (voice)
Manou the Swift
Actor Self
Love, Antosha
Actor Leonhard Seppala
Togo
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2017
Actor Ryuk (voice)
Death Note
Actor Bobby
The Florida Project
Actor Terrence Settman
What Happened to Monday
Actor Gerhard Hardman
Murder on the Orient Express
Actor Self
Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait
Actor Narrator (voice)
Mountain
Actor Himself
Piazza Vittorio
Actor Self
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
Actor Narrator
Sanctuary
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Actor Detective Hank Havenhurst
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Actor Eddie
Miral
Actor Lionel 'Elvis' Cormac
Daybreakers
Actor Max Oliver
A Woman
Actor Narrator
Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World
Actor Self
The Making of Daybreakers
Actor Self (archive footage)
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
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Actor Green Goblin / Norman Osborn
Spider-Man 3
Actor Carson Clay
Mr. Bean's Holiday
Actor Larry Lockner
The Walker
Actor Stan Aubray
Anamorph
Actor Ray Ruby
Go Go Tales
Actor Christopher
The Procedure
Actor Self
Cannes: All Access
Actor Self
Voom Portraits
Actor (segment "Occupations") (archive footage)
To Each His Own Cinema
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2005
Actor Grace's Father
Manderlay
Actor Gen. George Octavius Deckert
xXx: State of the Union
Actor Neil Murchison
Ripley Under Ground
Actor Leslie
Before It Had a Name
Actor Self
Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal
Actor Self
This Is an Adventure
Actor Willem Dafoe (uncredited)
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
Actor Self / Klaus D.
On the Set: 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou'
Screenplay
Before It Had a Name
2004
Actor Klaus Daimler
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Actor Green Goblin / Norman Osborn
Spider-Man 2
Actor Arnold Mack
The Clearing
Actor Martin
The Reckoning
Actor Dr. Michael Copeland
Control
Actor Roland Sweet
The Aviator
Actor Self
The Misbehavers
Actor Narrator (voice)
Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate