Willem Dafoe
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
ActingBirthday
July 22, 1955Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
205Place of birth
Appleton, Wisconsin, USAAlso known as
Willem DeFoe, William Dafoe, Jr., William J. Dafoe, 윌렘 데포, Уиллем Дефо, Γουίλεμ Νταφόε, 威廉·达福, William James "Willem" Dafoe, William James Dafoe, Віллем Дефо, ויליאם ג'. "וילם" דפו, וויליאם דפו, 威廉·達佛Cast credits
Finding Nemo
Gill (voice)Inside Man
John DariusThe English Patient
David CaravaggioThe Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Klaus DaimlerWild at Heart
Bobby PeruSpider-Man 3
Green Goblin / Norman OsbornBasquiat
The ElectricianSpider-Man 2
Green Goblin / Norman OsbornSpider-Man
Green Goblin / Norman OsbornMr. Bean's Holiday
Carson ClayOnce Upon a Time in Mexico
BarilloAmerican Psycho
Detective Donald KimballMississippi Burning
WardSpeed 2: Cruise Control
GeigereXistenZ
GasManderlay
Grace's FatherBody of Evidence
Frank DulaneyParis Je T'aime
Le cow-boy (Place des Victoires)Born on the Fourth of July
CharlieFantastic Mr. Fox
Rat (voice)Faraway, So Close!
Emit Flesti