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Willem Dafoe

Born · July 22, 1955 (69 years old)

Known For: Acting

Place of Birth: Appleton, Wisconsin, USA

Bio

William James "Willem" Dafoe (/dəˈfoʊ/də-FOH or /ˈdeɪfoʊ/ DAY-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 the Volpi Cup for Best Actor as well as nominations for four Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, four Golden Globe Awards, four Critics' Choice Movie Awards, and five Screen Actors Guild Awards. He has frequently collaborated with filmmakers Paul Schrader, Abel Ferrara, Lars von Trier, Julian Schnabel, Wes Anderson, and Robert Eggers. Dafoe was a founding member of experimental theatre company The Wooster Group. He made his film debut with an uncredited role in Heaven's Gate (1980). Dafoe's early career includes credits for The Loveless (1982), Streets of Fire (1984), and To Live and Die in L.A. (1985). He earned his first Academy Award nomination for the war drama Platoon (1986), followed by nominations for his roles in Shadow of the Vampire (2000), The Florida Project (2017), and the Vincent van Gogh biopic At Eternity's Gate (2018). He also gained acclaim and wide recognition for his roles as Jesus Christ in The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) and as the supervillain Norman Osborn 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). His other film appearance include roles in Mississippi Burning (1988), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Wild at Heart (1990), Light Sleeper (1992), Body of Evidence (1993), Clear and Present Danger (1994), The English Patient (1996), Affliction (1997), New Rose Hotel(1998), Existenz (1999), The Boondock Saints (1999), American Psycho (2000), Auto Focus (2002), Finding Nemo (2003), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), Inside Man (2006), Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007), Antichrist (2009), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), Nymphomaniac (2013), The Fault in Our Stars (2014), John Wick (2014), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), Aquaman (2018), The Lighthouse (2019), Nightmare Alley (2021), Poor Things (2023), and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Willem Dafoe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

2023

Franco Battiato - La voce del padrone

0.0

2022

Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus

Self / Grand Duc

0.0

2022

Self

7.6

2015

John Wick

Marcus

7.4

2014

Bad Country

Bud Carter

5.5

2014

Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini

5.7

2014

SPYMASTER: John le Carré in Hamburg

(archive footage)

4.0

2014

A Most Wanted Man

Tommy Brue

6.5

2014

The Fault in Our Stars

Peter van Houten

7.6

2014

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Jopling

8.0

2014

Nymphomaniac: Vol. II

6.7

2013

Out of the Furnace

John Petty

6.6

2013

Love's Routine

Barry

6.6

2013

The Smile Man

Willem

7.4

2013

Saving Norman

Lionel Pembrooke

6.6

2013

Odd Thomas

Wyatt Porter

6.9

2013

Tomorrow You're Gone

The Buddha

4.5

2012

4:44 Last Day on Earth

Cisco

4.6

2012

John Carter

Tars Tarkas

6.3

2012

The Hunter

Martin David

6.6

2011

Miral

Eddie

5.8

2010

A Woman

Max Oliver

4.8

2010

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

Detective Hank Havenhurst

6.0

2010

Daybreakers

Lionel 'Elvis' Cormac

6.3

2010

The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day

Paul Smecker (uncredited)

6.0

2009

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Rat (voice)

7.8

2009

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant

Gavner Purl

5.8

2009

Farewell

Feeney

6.5

2009

Antichrist

6.6

2009

Stan Aubray

5.1

2007

The Procedure

Christopher

4.6

2007

Go Go Tales

Ray Ruby

5.6

2007

Spider-Man 3

Green Goblin / Norman Osborn

6.4

2007

Mr. Bean's Holiday

Carson Clay

6.4

2007

The Walker

Larry Lockner

5.3

2007

Paris Je T'aime

Le cow-boy (Place des Victoires)

6.8

2006

Inside Man

John Darius

7.4

2006

American Dreamz

Chief of Staff

5.0

2006

Ripley Under Ground

Neil Murchison

5.7

2005

Before It Had a Name

Leslie

3.4

2005

Manderlay

Grace's Father

6.9

2005

Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal

Self

6.1

2005

xXx: State of the Union

Gen. George Octavius Deckert

5.0

2005

The Aviator

Roland Sweet

7.2

2004

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Klaus Daimler

7.1

2004

Control

Dr. Michael Copeland

6.0

2004

The Misbehavers

Self

0.0

2004

The Clearing

Arnold Mack

5.8

2004

Spider-Man 2

Green Goblin / Norman Osborn

7.3

2004

The Reckoning

Martin

6.4

2004

Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Armando Barillo

6.3

2003

Finding Nemo

Gill (voice)

7.8

2003

Rockets Redglare!

Self

6.0

2003

Auto Focus

6.8

1999

New Rose Hotel

5.3

1999

The Boondock Saints

Paul Smecker

7.3

1999

Forrest Bess: Key to the Riddle

Narrator

0.0

1999

Affliction

Rolfe Whitehouse

6.3

1998

Speed 2: Cruise Control

Geiger

4.6

1997

Victory

Axel Heyst

5.1

1996

The English Patient

David Caravaggio

7.2

1996

Basquiat

The Electrician

6.6

1996

The Night and the Moment

Lo scrittore

5.5

1995

Clear and Present Danger

John Clark

6.6

1994

Tom & Viv

Tom Eliot

6.2

1994

Faraway, So Close!

Emit Flesti

6.9

1993

White Homeland Commando

Karl

10.0

1993

Body of Evidence

Frank Dulaney

5.0

1993

Light Sleeper

John LeTour

6.7

1992

White Sands

Deputy Sheriff Ray Dolezal

5.9

1992

Flight of the Intruder

Lt. Cmdr. Virgil 'Tiger' Cole

5.6

1991

Wild at Heart

Bobby Peru

7.0

1990

Cry-Baby

Hateful Guard

6.5

1990

Born on the Fourth of July

Charlie

7.0

1989

Mississippi Burning

Agent Alan Ward

7.7

1988

The Last Temptation of Christ

Jesus

7.3

1988

Off Limits

Buck McGriff

5.7

1988

Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

Elephant Grass (voice)

7.1

1987

To Live and Die in L.A.

Eric Masters

7.1

1985

Roadhouse 66

Johnny Harte

5.1

1984

Streets of Fire

Raven Shaddock

6.9

1984

The Loveless

Vance

5.9

1984

The Hunger

2nd Phone Booth Youth

6.7

1983

The Man in My Basement

Anniston Bennett

0.0

Triumph of the Spirit

Salamo Arouch

6.6

1989

Heaven's Gate

Willy (uncredited)

6.8

1980

American Nails

0.0

Saturday Night

David Tebet

6.9

2024

Interior (The Spectator)

Narrator

0.0

2023

Nightmare Alley

Clem Hoatley

7.0

2021

The French Dispatch

Albert 'the Abacus'

7.0

2021

The Card Counter

Gordo

6.1

2021

Babenco: Tell Me When I Die

Self

7.0

2020

Siberia

Clint

5.0

2020

Roy's World: Barry Gifford's Chicago

8.0

2020

The Last Thing He Wanted

Richard McMahon

4.9

2020

0.0

2015

Late Fame

Ed Saxberger

0.0

Tenzing

Colonel John Hunt

0.0

Nelson Algren Live

Role1 / Frankie Machine / Role2 / Blackie Cavanaugh

0.0

2016

The Making of Daybreakers

Self

7.0

2010

Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World

Narrator

0.0

2010

Cannes: All Access

Self

3.7

2007

Voom Portraits

Self

10.0

2007

On the Set: 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou'

Self / Klaus D.

5.7

2005

Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate

Narrator (voice)

7.2

2004

Counterfeit World: Making 'To Live and Die in L.A.'

Himself

8.0

2003

Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty

8.0

2003

Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure

Hunter (voice)

0.0

2002

O Panama

6.0

1985

New York Nights

Boyfriend

3.0

1984

Tropico

Raymond

0.0

The Birthday Party

Marcos Timoleon

0.0

Nosferatu

Prof. Albin Eberhart von Franz

8.1

2024

Zero

0.0

2024

Dead for a Dollar

Joe Cribbens

5.9

2022

Stasera c’è Cattelan su Raidue

Self · (1 episode)

8.3

2022

Mostra, Venise

Self - "Tapis Rouge" Guest · (1 episode)

0.0

2022

7 Deaths of Maria Callas

Film Actor

7.0

2022

The Northman

Heimir the Fool

7.1

2022

Spider-Man: No Way Home

Norman Osborn / Green Goblin

8.0

2021

River

Narrator

6.1

2021

Maresco / Pasolini

Self

0.0

2021

Zack Snyder's Justice League

2018

NHK WORLD PRIME

Self - Narrator (voice) · (1 episode)

9.0

2017

Sanctuary

Narrator

0.0

2017

Sculpt

1.0

2016

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Self · (1 episode)

5.7

2015

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

Self · (1 episode)

4.4

2014

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Self · (1 episode)

5.5

2014

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Self · (2 episodes)

5.8

2014

Off Camera with Sam Jones

Self · (1 episode)

4.0

2014

The Benaki Museum

Narrator (voice)

0.0

2013

Bob Wilson's Life & Death of Marina Abramovic

Self

6.5

2012

Conan

Self · (1 episode)

7.0

2010

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy

Self (archive footage)

7.8

2010

Wintergasten

(1 episode)

0.0

2007

To Each His Own Cinema

(segment "Occupations") (archive footage)

6.5

2007

The Graham Norton Show

Self · (1 episode)

7.2

2007

The Colbert Report

(1 episode)

6.8

2005

This Is an Adventure

Self

6.5

2005

Jiminy Glick in Lalawood

Willem Dafoe (uncredited)

4.5

2005

Kulturplatz

Self · (1 episode)

6.0

2004

Overnight

Self

6.4

2003

The Spider-Man Story

Self

0.0

2002

Spider-Mania

Self

5.4

2002

Behind the Ultimate Spin: The Making of 'Spider-Man'

Self

5.0

2002

A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon'

Self

8.5

2001

The Directors

Self · (1 episode)

5.1

1999

Lulu on the Bridge

Dr. Van Horn

6.0

1998

Abel/Asia

Self (archival footage)

0.0

1998

The Wonderful World of Disney

(1 episode)

6.6

1997

The Daily Show

Self · (1 episode)

6.4

1996

The Kingdom

Grand Duc · (3 episodes)

7.6

1994

Inside the Actors Studio

Self · (1 episode)

7.4

1994

Brace Up!

Colonel Alexander Ignatyevich Vershinin

10.0

1993

Rhyme 'Em to Death

0.0

1993

North on Evers

7.2

1992

Fishing with John

Self · (1 episode)

7.5

1991

The Simpsons

The Commandant / Jack Lassen (voice) · (1 episode)

8.0

1989

The Simpsons

Commandant (voice) · (1 episode)

8.0

1989

Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of the Christ

Self

4.0

1988

Platoon

Sergeant Elias Gordon

7.7

1986

Atalanta Strategy

Immigration Staff

0.0

1984

run 002

0.0

The Hitchhiker

Jeffrey Hunt · (1 episode)

6.1

1983

Saturday Night Live

Self - Host · (1 episode)

6.9

1975

Saturday Night Live

Self - Cameo (uncredited) · (1 episode)

6.9

1975

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Self · (1 episode)

7.4

1962

The Oscars

Self · (2 episodes)

7.0

1953