Willem Dafoe
Age: N/A | From: Appleton, Wisconsin, USA
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Aliases: 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
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Appleton, Wisconsin, USA
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Movie Involvements: 166
TV Involvements: 5
Most Famous Work
Biography
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).
Most Famous Work
Spider-Man: No Way Home
(2021) Norman Osborn / Green Goblin
Finding Nemo
(2003) Gill (voice)
Zack Snyder's Justice League
(2021) Vulko
The Hitchhiker
(1983) Jeffrey Hunt
Kulturplatz
(2004) Self
Spider-Man
(2002) Green Goblin / Norman Osborn
Spider-Man 3
(2007) Green Goblin / Norman Osborn
Platoon
(1986) Sergeant Elias GordonActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Professor Albin Eberhart Von Franz | |
| David Tebet | ||
| Wolf Jackson | ||
| Raymond / George / Omi | ||
| Rufo Priori | ||
| Vincent Van Gogh (voice) | ||
| 2023 | Godwin Baxter | |
| Walker Reade | ||
| Francis | ||
| Saltzburg Keitel | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| Nemo | ||
| 2022 | N/A | |
| Self / Grand Duc | ||
| Joe Cribbens | ||
| Self | ||
| Film Actor | ||
| N/A | ||
| Self | ||
| Heimir the Fool | ||
| Narrator | ||
| Self | ||
| 2021 | Norman Osborn / Green Goblin | |
| Clem Hoatley | ||
| Albert 'the Abacus' | ||
| Self | ||
| Gordo | ||
| Narrator | ||
| Self | ||
| Vulko | ||
| 2020 | Self | |
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| Clint | ||
| N/A | ||
| Richard McMahon | ||
| Self | ||
| Tommaso | ||
| 2019 | Leonhard Seppala | |
| Self / Norman Osborn/ Green Goblin (archive footage) | ||
| Vincent van Gogh (archive footage) | ||
| Paul Randolph | ||
| Thomas Wake | ||
| Self | ||
| Manou's Father (voice) | ||
| 2018 | Paul | |
| Nuidis Vulko | ||
| Vincent van Gogh | ||
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| 2017 | Narrator (voice) | |
| Gerhard Hardman | ||
| Self - Narrator (voice) | ||
| Bobby | ||
| Himself | ||
| Ryuk (voice) | ||
| Terrence Settman | ||
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| Narrator | ||
| 2016 | Ballard | |
| Mad Dog | ||
| James Verdun | ||
| Ed Blackridge | ||
| Gill (voice) | ||
| Role1 / Frankie Machine / Role2 / Blackie Cavanaugh | ||
| Diego Fairman | ||
| Self | ||
| 2015 | Self | |
| Narrator | ||
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| 2014 | Self | |
| Marcus | ||
| Bud Carter | ||
| Pier Paolo Pasolini | ||
| (archive footage) | ||
| Tommy Brue | ||
| Peter van Houten | ||
| Jopling | ||
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| 2013 | Narrator (voice) | |
| L | ||
| John Petty | ||
| Barry | ||
| Willem | ||
| Lionel Pembrooke | ||
| Wyatt Porter | ||
| 2012 | The Buddha | |
| Self | ||
| Cisco | ||
| Tars Tarkas | ||
| 2011 | Martin David | |
| 2010 | Self | |
| Eddie | ||
| Max Oliver | ||
| Self | ||
| Narrator | ||
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| Lionel 'Elvis' Cormac | ||
| 2009 | Paul Smecker (uncredited) | |
| Rat (voice) | ||
| Gavner Purl | ||
| Feeney | ||
| Detective Hank Havenhurst | ||
| He | ||
| 2008 | A | |
| Commandat Klein | ||
| Charles Waechter | ||
| 2007 | N/A | |
| (segment "Occupations") (archive footage) | ||
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| Stan Aubray | ||
| Christopher | ||
| Ray Ruby | ||
| Green Goblin / Norman Osborn | ||
| Carson Clay | ||
| Self | ||
| Larry Lockner | ||
| 2006 | Le cow-boy (Place des Victoires) | |
| John Darius | ||
| Chief of Staff | ||
| 2005 | Neil Murchison | |
| N/A | ||
| Leslie | ||
| Grace's Father | ||
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| Willem Dafoe (uncredited) | ||
| Gen. George Octavius Deckert | ||
| Self / Klaus D. | ||
| 2004 | Roland Sweet | |
| Klaus Daimler | ||
| Dr. Michael Copeland | ||
| Self | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| Self | ||
| Arnold Mack | ||
| Green Goblin / Norman Osborn | ||
| Martin | ||
| 2003 | Himself | |
| N/A | ||
| Barillo | ||
| Self | ||
| Gill (voice) | ||
| Self | ||
| 2002 | Hunter (voice) | |
| John Carpenter | ||
| Green Goblin / Norman Osborn | ||
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| 2001 | Priest | |
| Father Andre | ||
| Self | ||
| 2000 | Earl Copen | |
| Father Ramirez | ||
| Max Schreck | ||
| Donald Kimball | ||
| 1999 | Gas | |
| X | ||
| Paul Smecker | ||
| Self | ||
| Narrator | ||
| 1998 | Dr. Van Horn | |
| Rolfe Whitehouse | ||
| Self (archival footage) | ||
| 1997 | N/A | |
| Geiger | ||
| 1996 | Axel Heyst | |
| David Caravaggio | ||
| The Electrician | ||
| Self | ||
| 1995 | Lo scrittore | |
| 1994 | Grand Duc | |
| Self | ||
| John Clark | ||
| Tom Eliot | ||
| 1993 | Emit Flesti | |
| Colonel Alexander Ignatyevich Vershinin | ||
| Karl | ||
| Frank Dulaney | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1992 | John LeTour | |
| Deputy Sheriff Ray Dolezal | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1991 | Self | |
| Lt. Cmdr. Virgil 'Tiger' Cole | ||
| 1990 | Bobby Peru | |
| Hateful Guard | ||
| 1989 | Charlie | |
| The Commandant / Jack Lassen (voice) | ||
| Commandant (voice) | ||
| Salamo Arouch | ||
| 1988 | Ward | |
| Self | ||
| Jesus | ||
| Buck McGriff | ||
| 1987 | Elephant Grass (voice) | |
| 1986 | Sergeant Elias Gordon | |
| 1985 | Eric Masters | |
| N/A | ||
| 1984 | Johnny Harte | |
| Raven Shaddock | ||
| Boyfriend | ||
| Vance | ||
| Immigration Staff | ||
| 1983 | Jeffrey Hunt | |
| 2nd Phone Booth Youth | ||
| 1980 | Willy (uncredited) | |
| 1975 | Self - Host | |
| Self - Cameo (uncredited) | ||
| 1962 | Self | |
| 1953 | Self | |
| Anniston Bennett | ||
| N/A | ||
| Ed Saxberger | ||
| Colonel John Hunt | ||
| N/A | ||
| Raymond | ||
| Maxim | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Production
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Associate Producer | |
| 1999 | Co-Producer | |
| Producer | ||
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Crew
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Thanks | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Screenplay | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |