Willem Dafoe

Willem Dafoe

Birthday: 1955-07-22

Place of birth: Appleton, Wisconsin, USA

Also known as: Willem DeFoe, William Dafoe, Jr., William J. Dafoe, 윌렘 데포, Γουίλεμ Νταφόε, 威廉·达福, William James "Willem" Dafoe, William James Dafoe, ויליאם ג'. "וילם" דפו, וויליאם דפו, 威廉·達佛, ویلم دفو

imdb_id: nm0000353

Biography:

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.

Played in movies:

Was Ist Kino ?

Score: 10.0

Nosferatu: An Inside Look

Score: 10.0

Brace Up!

Score: 10.0

Voom Portraits

Score: 10.0

White Homeland Commando

Score: 10.0

Under the Rainbow: Making The Florida Project

Score: 8.7

A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon'

Score: 8.5

Togo

Score: 8.1

Zack Snyder's Justice League

Score: 8.1

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Score: 8.0

Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty

Score: 8.0

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

Score: 8.0

Finding Satoshi

Score: 8.0

Spider-Man: No Way Home

Score: 7.9

Finding Nemo

Score: 7.8

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy

Score: 7.8

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Score: 7.8

Platoon

Score: 7.7

Wim Wenders, Desperado

Score: 7.7

Poor Things

Score: 7.7

Mississippi Burning

Score: 7.7

Don't F*#% With John Wick

Score: 7.6

The Fault in Our Stars

Score: 7.6

The Lighthouse

Score: 7.5

Fukushima: A Nuclear Story

Score: 7.5

John Wick

Score: 7.4

The Florida Project

Score: 7.4

American Psycho

Score: 7.4

Inside Man

Score: 7.4

The Smile Man

Score: 7.4

Love, Antosha

Score: 7.3

Spider-Man

Score: 7.3

Spider-Man 2

Score: 7.3

Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait

Score: 7.3

The Boondock Saints

Score: 7.3

The Aviator

Score: 7.2

North on Evers

Score: 7.2

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

Score: 7.2

Mind the Gap

Score: 7.2

John Wick: Calling in the Cavalry

Score: 7.2

Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee

Score: 7.2

The Last Temptation of Christ

Score: 7.2

The English Patient

Score: 7.2

What Happened to Monday

Score: 7.2

Lynch/Oz

Score: 7.2

Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

Score: 7.1

To Live and Die in L.A.

Score: 7.1

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Score: 7.1

The Northman

Score: 7.1

Finding Dory

Score: 7.0

The French Dispatch

Score: 7.0

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Score: 7.0

Born on the Fourth of July

Score: 7.0

7 Deaths of Maria Callas

Score: 7.0

Friedkin Uncut

Score: 7.0

The Making of Daybreakers

Score: 7.0

Babenco: Tell Me When I Die

Score: 7.0

At Eternity's Gate

Score: 7.0

Mountain

Score: 7.0

Wild at Heart

Score: 7.0

Nightmare Alley

Score: 7.0

Odd Thomas

Score: 6.9

The Lighthouse: A Dark & Stormy Tale

Score: 6.9

Streets of Fire

Score: 6.9

Faraway, So Close!

Score: 6.9

Manderlay

Score: 6.9

Aquaman

Score: 6.9

Nymphomaniac: Vol. I

Score: 6.8

Heaven's Gate

Score: 6.8

Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home

Score: 6.8

eXistenZ

Score: 6.8

Paris Je T'aime

Score: 6.8

Nymphomaniac: Vol. II

Score: 6.7

A Family Man

Score: 6.7

Nosferatu

Score: 6.7

Saturday Night

Score: 6.7

Murder on the Orient Express

Score: 6.7

Light Sleeper

Score: 6.7

The Hunger

Score: 6.7

Motherless Brooklyn

Score: 6.7

Shadow of the Vampire

Score: 6.7

Clear and Present Danger

Score: 6.7

Antichrist

Score: 6.6

The Hunter

Score: 6.6

Triumph of the Spirit

Score: 6.6

Basquiat

Score: 6.6

Out of the Furnace

Score: 6.6

Cry-Baby

Score: 6.5

Kinds of Kindness

Score: 6.5

Bob Wilson's Life & Death of Marina Abramovic

Score: 6.5

Piazza Vittorio

Score: 6.5

This Is an Adventure

Score: 6.5

Vincent van Gogh Superstar

Score: 6.5

Saving Norman

Score: 6.5

The Dust of Time

Score: 6.5

Farewell

Score: 6.5

Asteroid City

Score: 6.5

To Each His Own Cinema

Score: 6.5

Manou the Swift

Score: 6.5

A Most Wanted Man

Score: 6.5

Love's Routine

Score: 6.4

Spider-Man 3

Score: 6.4

Overnight

Score: 6.4

Edges of the Lord

Score: 6.4

The Reckoning

Score: 6.4

Animal Factory

Score: 6.4

Mr. Bean's Holiday

Score: 6.4

Auto Focus

Score: 6.3

John Carter

Score: 6.3

Affliction

Score: 6.3

Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Score: 6.3

Daybreakers

Score: 6.3

The Wild One

Score: 6.2

Adam Resurrected

Score: 6.2

Fireflies in the Garden

Score: 6.2

The Card Counter

Score: 6.1

River

Score: 6.1

Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal

Score: 6.1

Tom & Viv

Score: 6.1

Control

Score: 6.1

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

Score: 6.0

The Great Wall

Score: 6.0

Roy's World: Barry Gifford's Chicago

Score: 6.0

O Panama

Score: 6.0

Rockets Redglare!

Score: 6.0

Why Are We (Not) Creative?

Score: 6.0

The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day

Score: 6.0

Tommaso

Score: 5.9

White Sands

Score: 5.9

Dead for a Dollar

Score: 5.9

Opus Zero

Score: 5.9

Lulu on the Bridge

Score: 5.9

Finally Dawn

Score: 5.9

The Loveless

Score: 5.9

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant

Score: 5.8

Vox Lux

Score: 5.8

Miral

Score: 5.8

The Clearing

Score: 5.8

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

Score: 5.7

Pasolini

Score: 5.7

Pavilion of Women

Score: 5.7

Go Go Tales

Score: 5.7

Brothers in Arms

Score: 5.7

Off Limits

Score: 5.7

Ripley Under Ground

Score: 5.6

Inside

Score: 5.6

Il coraggio di essere Franco

Score: 5.6

Flight of the Intruder

Score: 5.6

Bad Country

Score: 5.5

The Night and the Moment

Score: 5.5

The Legend of Ochi

Score: 5.5

Spider-Mania

Score: 5.4

The Walker

Score: 5.3

New Rose Hotel

Score: 5.3

Roadhouse 66

Score: 5.2

Anamorph

Score: 5.1

Dog Eat Dog

Score: 5.1

Victory

Score: 5.1

xXx: State of the Union

Score: 5.1

Siberia

Score: 5.0

American Dreamz

Score: 5.0

Body of Evidence

Score: 5.0

Jesus Goes to Hollywood

Score: 5.0

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

Score: 5.0

The Last Thing He Wanted

Score: 4.9

Father

Score: 4.8

A Woman

Score: 4.8

4:44 Last Day on Earth

Score: 4.7

Speed 2: Cruise Control

Score: 4.6

The Procedure

Score: 4.6

Zero

Score: 4.5

Tomorrow You're Gone

Score: 4.5

Jiminy Glick in Lalawood

Score: 4.4

Death Note

Score: 4.3

Sportin' Life

Score: 4.2

My Hindu Friend

Score: 4.2

Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of the Christ

Score: 4.0

SPYMASTER: John le Carré in Hamburg

Score: 4.0

Cannes: All Access

Score: 3.7

Before It Had a Name

Score: 3.5

New York Nights

Score: 3.0

Bullfighter

Score: 3.0

Ballad of a Righteous Merchant

Score: 2.0

Sculpt

Score: 1.0

Gonzo Girl

Score: 1.0

Da Suisa - Tributo

Score: 0.0

Can Creativity Save the World?

Score: 0.0

The Phoenician Scheme

Score: 0.0

Behind the Scenes of 'Spider-Man'

Score: 0.0

Wrong Guys

Score: 0.0

Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of Wild at Heart

Score: 0.0

The Souffleur

Score: 0.0

The Sleeping Shepherd

Score: 0.0

run 002

Score: 0.0

The Spider-Man Story

Score: 0.0

Maresco / Pasolini

Score: 0.0

Sanctuary

Score: 0.0

The Benaki Museum

Score: 0.0

Theatron. Romeo Castellucci

Score: 0.0

Rhyme 'Em to Death

Score: 0.0

Abel/Asia

Score: 0.0

Atalanta Strategy

Score: 0.0

Nelson Algren Live

Score: 0.0

Interior (The Spectator)

Score: 0.0

The Birthday Party

Score: 0.0

Tropico

Score: 0.0

Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure

Score: 0.0

Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World

Score: 0.0

Tenzing

Score: 0.0

Late Fame

Score: 0.0

The Making of A Most Wanted Man

Score: 0.0

Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus

Score: 0.0

Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the Mysterious

Score: 0.0

Franco Battiato - La voce del padrone

Score: 0.0

American Nails

Score: 0.0

The Misbehavers

Score: 0.0

The Man in My Basement

Score: 0.0

Forrest Bess: Key to the Riddle

Score: 0.0

Pet Shop Days

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen

Score: 10.0

NHK WORLD PRIME

Score: 9.0

Stasera c’è Cattelan su Raidue

Score: 8.2

The Simpsons

Score: 8.0

The Simpsons

Score: 8.0

The Kingdom

Score: 7.5

Inside the Actors Studio

Score: 7.5

Fishing with John

Score: 7.5

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Score: 7.5

The Graham Norton Show

Score: 7.2

Conan

Score: 7.1

Saturday Night Live

Score: 6.9

Saturday Night Live

Score: 6.9

The Oscars

Score: 6.9

The Oscars

Score: 6.9

The Colbert Report

Score: 6.8

The Wonderful World of Disney

Score: 6.8

The Daily Show

Score: 6.4

The Hitchhiker

Score: 6.1

Kulturplatz

Score: 6.0

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Score: 5.8

The Directors

Score: 5.8

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Score: 5.7

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Score: 5.3

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

Score: 4.4

Off Camera with Sam Jones

Score: 4.0

Mostra, Venise

Score: 0.0

Wintergasten

Score: 0.0