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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
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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.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1955-07-22
- event Death Date Unknown
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 47.3
- info Birth Place Appleton, Wisconsin, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Willem Dafoe
7.9
Finding Nemo
2003-05-30
7.4
Inside Man
2006-03-17
7.1
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
2004-12-10
7.2
The English Patient
1996-11-14
7
Wild at Heart
1990-08-17
6.6
Basquiat
1996-08-09
6.4
Spider-Man 3
2007-05-01
7.3
Spider-Man 2
2004-06-25
7.4
Spider-Man
2002-05-01
6.4
Mr. Bean's Holiday
2007-03-22
7.5
American Psycho
2000-04-13
6.3
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
2003-09-11
4
SPYMASTER: John le Carré in Hamburg
2014-09-02
5
Body of Evidence
1993-01-15
7.7
Mississippi Burning
1988-12-08
4.6
Speed 2: Cruise Control
1997-06-13
0
Pet Shop Days
2023-09-03
6.8
Paris Je T'aime
2006-06-21
7.9
Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009-10-23
6.9
Manderlay
2005-06-03
6.8
eXistenZ
1999-04-14
7
Born on the Fourth of July
1989-12-20
5.8
The Clearing
2004-07-02
6.9
Faraway, So Close!
1993-09-01
6.8
Heaven's Gate
1980-11-19
6.7
Shadow of the Vampire
2000-05-15
7.3
The Last Temptation of Christ
1988-05-28
6.5
Asteroid City
2023-06-08
6
The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
2009-11-24
5.3
New Rose Hotel
1999-03-19
5.1
xXx: State of the Union
2005-04-27
6.2
Fireflies in the Garden
2008-08-07
7.3
The Boondock Saints
1999-01-22
6.7
The Hunger
1983-04-29
6.3
Affliction
1998-02-12
5.8
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
2009-10-23
6.5
Cry-Baby
1990-04-06
5
American Dreamz
2006-03-04
6.4
The Reckoning
2004-02-26
6.6
Clear and Present Danger
1994-08-03
6.4
Animal Factory
2000-10-13
5.3
The Walker
2007-02-13
6.1
Control
2004-12-07
7.1
To Live and Die in L.A.
1985-11-01
0
The Legend of Ochi
2025-02-28
6.5
Farewell
2009-09-23
6.4
Auto Focus
2002-10-18
5.1
Anamorph
2007-09-21
6.6
Light Sleeper
1992-08-21
5.9
The Loveless
1984-01-20
6.9
Streets of Fire
1984-06-01
7.1
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
1987-10-01
6.1
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010-07-08
3
Bullfighter
2000-10-01
5.7
Off Limits
1988-03-11
5.8
Miral
2010-09-15
5.1
Victory
1996-12-13
5.7
Ripley Under Ground
2005-11-06
6.7
Antichrist
2009-05-20
6
Tom & Viv
1994-04-15
6.4
Edges of the Lord
2001-10-12
6.2
Adam Resurrected
2008-08-08
6.3
John Carter
2012-03-07
5.6
Flight of the Intruder
1991-01-18
5.9
White Sands
1992-04-24
6.3
Daybreakers
2010-01-06
7.2
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
2024-09-04
7.2
Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee
2019-12-20
5.7
Brothers in Arms
2018-11-13
3.5
Before It Had a Name
2005-09-10
6.4
The Dust of Time
2008-11-22
5.6
Go Go Tales
2007-05-23
5.7
Pavilion of Women
2001-04-20
6.7
The Hunter
2011-10-06
0
Forrest Bess: Key to the Riddle
1999-01-01
4.6
4:44 Last Day on Earth
2012-03-23
8.1
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014-02-26
4.5
Tomorrow You're Gone
2012-10-31
5.1
Roadhouse 66
1984-08-31
4.8
A Woman
2010-09-04
5.6
Inside
2023-03-09
6.5
A Most Wanted Man
2014-07-25
5.5
The Night and the Moment
1995-07-05
6.6
Out of the Furnace
2013-11-09
5.8
The Wild One
2023-05-10
7.2
John Wick: Calling in the Cavalry
2015-02-03
7.6
Don't F*#% With John Wick
2015-02-03
6
Why Are We (Not) Creative?
2021-10-20
6.6
Saving Norman
2013-05-25
6.7
Love's Routine
2013-06-19
7.4
The Smile Man
2013-06-15
6
Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal
2005-05-09
6.2
Il coraggio di essere Franco
2022-05-18
6.7
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
2022-05-03
7
Odd Thomas
2013-01-29
7.6
The Fault in Our Stars
2014-05-16
6
Rockets Redglare!
2003-05-02
7.5
John Wick
2014-10-22
6.8
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
2013-12-25
8
Finding Satoshi
2022-01-21
5.6
Bad Country
2014-09-26
7.2
The Aviator
2004-12-17
1
Gonzo Girl
2023-09-07
5.7
Pasolini
2014-09-25
7.8
Poor Things
2023-12-07
6
Finally Dawn
2024-02-14
6.5
Vincent van Gogh Superstar
2019-11-05
4.6
The Procedure
2007-08-01
10
White Homeland Commando
1993-03-04
6.6
Kinds of Kindness
2024-05-30
0
The Man in My Basement
6.6
Triumph of the Spirit
1989-12-08
6
The Great Wall
2016-12-16
0
The Misbehavers
2004-12-04
0
American Nails
0
Franco Battiato - La voce del padrone
2022-11-28
0
Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the Mysterious
2022-01-16
0
Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus
2022-11-20
0
The Making of A Most Wanted Man
2015-02-27
7.2
Saturday Night
2024-09-27
4.2
My Hindu Friend
2016-03-03
5.2
Dog Eat Dog
2016-11-04
6.7
A Family Man
2016-09-13
0
Late Fame
0
Tenzing
0
Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World
2010-05-10
3
New York Nights
1984-03-01
7.2
Mind the Gap
2016-02-17
0
Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure
2002-12-15
7.5
Fukushima: A Nuclear Story
2015-03-13
0
The Phoenician Scheme
7.1
Finding Dory
2016-06-16
4.3
Death Note
2017-08-25
0
Tropico
7.4
The Florida Project
2017-10-06
7.2
What Happened to Monday
2017-08-18
6.9
Aquaman
2018-12-07
6.8
Murder on the Orient Express
2017-11-03
0
The Birthday Party
0
Nosferatu
2024-12-25
0
Interior (The Spectator)
2023-10-21
6
Lulu on the Bridge
1998-09-06
5
Siberia
2020-07-02
7.2
Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait
2017-05-05
7
Mountain
2017-11-30
4.8
Father
2016-10-25
6
This Is an Adventure
2005-05-10
7
At Eternity's Gate
2018-11-15
5.9
Opus Zero
2018-12-28
4.5
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
2005-05-08
8.5
A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon'
2001-01-01
7.7
Platoon
1986-12-19
7.6
The Lighthouse
2019-10-18
6.7
Motherless Brooklyn
2019-10-31
6
O Panama
1985-01-01
6.6
Manou the Swift
2019-01-25
4.9
The Last Thing He Wanted
2020-02-14
8
Counterfeit World: Making 'To Live and Die in L.A.'
2003-12-02
3.7
Cannes: All Access
2007-10-27
5.8
Vox Lux
2018-09-07
6.5
Piazza Vittorio
2017-09-09
0
Nelson Algren Live
2016-06-04
8
Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty
2003-09-12
6
Tommaso
2020-01-08
7
The French Dispatch
2021-10-21
10
Voom Portraits
2007-10-01
7.3
Love, Antosha
2019-08-02
5.2
On the Set: 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou'
2005-01-15
10
Brace Up!
1993-04-01
2
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
2017-08-01
8.2
Togo
2019-12-20
8
Under the Rainbow: Making The Florida Project
2018-02-20
7
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
2020-11-26
7
Nightmare Alley
2021-12-02
7.2
Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate
2004-10-08
7
The Making of Daybreakers
2010-05-11
8
Roy's World: Barry Gifford's Chicago
2020-02-28
7.2
North on Evers
1992-01-01
6.2
The Card Counter
2021-09-03
0
Atalanta Strategy
1984-01-01
7.1
The Northman
2022-04-07
0
Abel/Asia
1998-01-01
7
Bob Wilson's Life & Death of Marina Abramovic
2012-09-12
0
Rhyme 'Em to Death
1993-01-01
7.2
Friedkin Uncut
2018-11-05
0
Theatron. Romeo Castellucci
2018-03-30
6.4
Overnight
2003-06-12
7.7
Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020-07-16
4.2
Sportin' Life
2020-09-06
0
The Benaki Museum
2013-12-26
7
7 Deaths of Maria Callas
2022-07-24
6.9
The Lighthouse: A Dark & Stormy Tale
2020-01-14
4
Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of the Christ
1988-10-07
8.1
Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021-03-18
5
Behind the Ultimate Spin: The Making of 'Spider-Man'
2002-04-20
0
Sanctuary
2017-01-28
5.4
Spider-Mania
2002-04-30
0
Maresco / Pasolini
2021-05-05
6.5
To Each His Own Cinema
2007-10-31
5.9
Dead for a Dollar
2022-09-30
6.1
River
2021-09-03
7.8
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
2010-05-04
8
Spider-Man: No Way Home
2021-12-15
0
The Spider-Man Story
2002-06-08
0
Zero
2024-09-30
0
run 002
8
The Simpsons
1989-12-17
7.3
Inside the Actors Studio
1994-08-14
6.4
The Daily Show
1996-07-22
6.9
The Colbert Report
2005-10-17
6.1
The Hitchhiker
1983-11-01
6.6
The Wonderful World of Disney
1997-09-28
7
The Oscars
1953-03-19
0
Wintergasten
2007-12-28
8
The Simpsons
1989-12-17
7.6
The Kingdom
1994-11-24
7.2
The Graham Norton Show
2007-02-22
7
Saturday Night Live
1975-10-11
7.4
Fishing with John
1991-11-20
5.1
The Directors
1999-01-01
7.4
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962-10-01
5.7
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015-08-02
4.3
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014-12-21
8.3
Stasera c’è Cattelan su Raidue
2022-09-20
5.5
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014-02-25
7
Saturday Night Live
1975-10-11
9
NHK WORLD PRIME
2017-10-07
5.8
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014-02-17
4
Off Camera with Sam Jones
2014-02-06
6
Kulturplatz
2004-09-01
0
Mostra, Venise
2022-09-01
7
Conan
2010-11-08
10
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
2020-12-31
